Bad Company to work for...So Many Reasons

Rite Aid stock is currently trading at $0.93 per share. Tells you what investors think of the company.
They are constantly advertising and hiring. This is obviously due to poor work environmnet and a high job turn-over rate.

Istari TheGreen in Newtonfalls, Ohio said: Number One- Pay stinks! technically I've received a 7 cent raise each year since I've been with the company, my friend has been with the company for 20yrs. and minimum wage is at 7.00 an hour here in Ohio, she's at 7.50...wow right!

Number Two- Poor management! Upper Management and Corp. don't have any respect for the little people who make the company run. No sick time, personal days, or vacation unless your management. Then you get one to three weeks vacation depending on how long you've been with the company, one personal day, and you have to work an average of 40 hrs. a week to be qualified. They're very picky about the whole thing, and don't give enough hours to set you up with a possibility of that happening. I have half a notion to start a walk out.

Number Three- Unsolved Problems! I contacted our Districts Human Resources Manager about our store's General Manager having some serious issues. I mean throwing things (even hitting people with these things), knocking people off ladders, cussing at employees, belittling us, making us feel stupid, we're often forced into taking sides over other employees against our own personal feelings. We feel bullied, harassed, and that most days we come to work in a hostile environment! And so far, not a single thing has happened, noone has come in to question us, noone has really expressed any concern for our safety, or our happiness. It's been almost a week, and nothing...you would think someone would be in as soon as they got the message-I e-mailed them. And I know they received it! I got an acknowlegement letter back...redirecting it to another manager.

Though there is much more, I need to go to bed and get up for work tomorrow. So look for more horror stories from me and well, the rest of the rite aid work force! The bad news is everywhere as you can see. =(

3% raise is all PA workers are going to get.

This is what I have discovered as a Store Manager. They are good at making the jobs easier for everyone above store level. They love coming out with new initiatives that sound good somewhere up high, but what they fail to realize is without proper staffing in the stores, these initiatives can;t really happen. They want everyone to love their job, yet they trim the payrolls to where everyone is running around trying to meet deadline after deadline, unload and put up trucks and wait on the customers at the same time. I am in a store that is posting 25% increases weekly, yet I was told to cut my payroll back from what I would normally use. After we trim payroll expenses, they send in new signage to replace signs in the rx waiting area and the caregiver endcap. 4800 stores, about 7 signs per store, equals a ton of wasted expense. they need to stop wasting money printing useless signs and dump it into store operations. Also, someone posted something about tiny raises, well, it's true. It takes an act of God to go over about a 3% raise. They sent out the corporate guidelines on raises once and it is terribly strict, even for the DM's.

I have to agree with that said, as a store manager. Corporate wants us to do so many things, yet they will not give us more payroll hours... On top of that, they are having us stay open later for the holidays and refuse any additional payroll hours. Our store is not in a safe neighborhood and the employees do not feel safe, as there has already been incidents of our store getting robbed and they will not even allow additional security. Corporate does not care about employees on the store level. The only response we got from the "higher ups" was, "Welcome to retail," after one of our managers was already left for dead because he got beat up during a robbery.

One more thing. Don't take a vacation or you will get your benefits taken away. This has happen to two people in my store now. I was told that this happens company-wide. Maybe someday I can be the CEO and show them how to create an environment that is positive for both employees and customers. Perhaps that will raise our stocks as well.

I know two Pharmacist that were with Eckerd one for 30 years and the other for 18 years, Both were fired this week, for using a coupon to much during Employee appreciation day.

Neither one of them were ever written up or in trouble.

Both fired for using a coupon where they bought over a $500 worth of merchandise from the company boosting the sales.

the LNP guy said using the coupon more then once was "fraud" even though the coupon does not say they can not use it more then once, and the official Rite Aid Coupon policy states they can indeed re-use the Rite aid coupons more then once in a given day...which they did.

This is another example of using the law to cut cost of two very loyal employees that were doing their job faithfully.

Poor decision by the Rite Aid management, as a Customer I will never shop their again, if they treat my pharmacist that way, why should I give them my business? No wonder the company is going bankrupt, the more I hear the more i dislike the company

They are very picky about coupons...

johninjersey said: I know two Pharmacist that were with Eckerd one for 30 years and the other for 18 years, Both were fired this week, for using a coupon to much during Employee appreciation day.

Neither one of them were ever written up or in trouble.

Both fired for using a coupon where they bought over a $500 worth of merchandise from the company boosting the sales.

the LNP guy said using the coupon more then once was "fraud" even though the coupon does not say they can not use it more then once, and the official Rite Aid Coupon policy states they can indeed re-use the Rite aid coupons more then once in a given day...which they did.

This is another example of using the law to cut cost of two very loyal employees that were doing their job faithfully.

Poor decision by the Rite Aid management, as a Customer I will never shop their again, if they treat my pharmacist that way, why should I give them my business? No wonder the company is going bankrupt, the more I hear the more i dislike the company

Another example of Rite Aid not appreciating good employees when they have them. I have heard of other instances when Rite Aid terminated excellent employees instantly with no warning beforehand. They micromanage their employees' every move with their NexGen computer system and can quickly and easily monitor their productivity and use those numbers for terminating employees. I would think twice before applying to this company. I agree that the only reason they are always hiring is that they have a high turnover rate of employees who leave due to hostile work environments or are terminated for any minor infraction of company policy. I also have a problem with their unreasonable 15-minute prescription guarantee because it seems that they are promoting speed over accuracy and it puts another reason for undue stress on an already overworked staff.

RA is a great place to gain IT experience, as they hire cashiers into technical jobs, with no education/experience needed, at entry level pay. Years later, you will still be at entry level pay, and the benefits are shedding layers each year. Expect a stress-filled, chaotic, closely scrutinized (both on/off job) culture, which fosters mutual mistrust between management (mostly former cashiers) and employees. IT employees enjoy perpetual, unpaid, strictly enforced 365/7 standby, random starting times, and will be closely watched. RA's union stores have much better health benefits than RA's non-union stores. I don't work there, but know someone who does.

When I worked for eckerd (now rite aid) they had employees work off the clock. If you worked 6 or more hours the clock took 30 minutes out. If you didn't take your vacation or personal days you lost them. But eckerd never told you this.

NEVER, work for Landau Jewelry, they are awful! After they hire you, you find out you must work overtime and not get paid for it. They will not pay your commission when give notice and quit responsibly. They do not pay you on time. They screw up your pay check every two weeks and pay you the wrong amount. Your first paycheck must be mailed to your house, except they forget to mail it and you end up going 3 weeks with no pay. AWFUL, place to work!

The rite aid that i work at the store management is awful and the pharmacy manager who took over for someone else was unfair to everyone in the pharmacy except for 1 lazy individual. No they have lost 6 people since mid-march and they just don't care. For anyone that wants to work for rite aid just take this into account: started at 8.25/hr it would take me 25 years to get to make 12/hr. went to another company and I am making more than I was at rite aid. This company don't care about anybody so the best advice i can give to people is take care of urself cause rite aid don't give a hoot.

I completely understand all the hype about RA. I've worked some pretty awful jobs in my life and this one ranks right up there with them. In the short while I've been there, I've realized the management care nothing for their employees, no matter how hard they work or how much extra effort they put forth to impress them. Instead they take their employees' good wills and intentions to use and manipulate these traits to use for their own benefit. The managers are hateful and constantly say rude things to the cashiers - talking to them as if calling for a dog. They dump a huge work load on top of the cashiers and expect them to be in all parts of the store and screaming greetings towards the front door as soon as a customer walks in. Somehow all of this unloading and stocking is supposed to take place while the employee is also waiting on lines of customers, answering the telephone, and running the entire photo center by themselves. At the end of the day, they receive no recognition for any of their hard work, no matter how bad and stressful it may have been. The policies seem to be made up day to day by the management, depending on how it works for them. I've heard that 2 employees are suppose to be scheduled on a shift at all times, however I've seen employees be left at the store by themselves at night so mgmt can go leave the store to go run an errand. Every move you make as an employee is so closely monitored, you cannot blink an eye improperly without fear of being written up or fired. You are never fully trained on every tiny detail of the job, but they still expect you to "just know how" to do it all. Never ask them to show you how to do something or train you about something you don't know, you'll either get a lecture that makes you feel like a dog or they'll completely ignore you and then let you mess it up so they can in turn, still talk to you like a dog.

Riteaid is in fact the worst company I've ever worked for, I started working for them for over a year ago and I got promoted to a newly created position wich still today no one understands, the provided training on things that we never need to use, and tell us things that we can't do, but when I'm in the store the managers tells me other wise but I got to live in fear that if the human resources or PDM catches me doing what I'm suppose to be doing I could get fired so no matter what I do I can get fired, then there's no holidays for no body and no sick days, if you get sick the company policy does no state that you can get a doctors note and be excuse, they don't care they will fire you, you are only allowed to use your personal days if have any and with two weeks notice so you gonna have to know when you gonna get sick with two weeks in advance to be ok.... Any ways this company sucks and I'm in the process of termination and can't wait to fight them on a lawsuit for discrimination and retaliation against the management and HR manager since he's a bully and don't dare about anything that we as store level employees bring to him...

Quit Rite Aid a while ago. I hate what this company has become over the course of 10 years. From okay company to serious hell hole. HR and DMs are so evil and stupid they make criminals seem nice. They will write you up even if you are innocent. Don't sign it!!! Get a lawyer if you are fired. I believe in PA and NJ there are too many people getting fired by RAD for no reason whatsoever. Band together and sue this POS company. And for anybody reading the boards, write massive complaints to the heads of the company and the news agencies. BTW who was the HR manager? Initials will do.