Current Events > Just found out Walgreen's did one of my co-workers dirty

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She's been working there for 40 years. Not too long before I was hired, they had celebrated her 40 years of service to Walgreen's. 2 weeks later, they push her into retiring (because they didn't feel like paying her that much money). Then they bring her back in January, but they're only paying her half of what they did before for the same exact work.


WTF
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Why is that dirty? She accepted the job, it's not like they're forcing her against her will...
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Walgreens fucking sucked, leaving for supermarket management was such a good move.

Gravityfare posted...

Why is that dirty? She accepted the job, it's not like they're forcing her against her will...

I dont think you quite understand how being pushed into retirement goes. She worked there for 40 YEARS. 40. YEARS. And thats how they treat her?

This isnt a teenager losing his job. This is someone who spent half their life or more working at your store.

She spent 40 years at a Wal-Greens noncorporate location. I mean isn't there a mutual loyalty there? They paid her for 40 years...
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Gravityfare posted...

Why is that dirty? She accepted the job, it's not like they're forcing her against her will...

It's dirty because they loopholed their way around paying a 40+ year employee table scraps.


I agree though, if they pulled that shit with me, I wouldn't even think about coming back, but for some people, when you work 40 years with a company, it's basically all you know.
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Dude this topic is like..."My cashier friend at Wal-Mart was forced out after 40 years"

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.
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Gravityfare posted...

She spent 40 years at a Wal-Greens noncorporate location. I mean isn't there a mutual loyalty there? They paid her for 40 years...

Loyalty is standing by your dedicated employees. Not only keeping them around until you no longer feel like paying them what they're worth, even though your stores are making millions, if not, billions per year.
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Gravityfare posted...

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Grow up

And it wasn't even just a regular cashier job. She was a Senior Beauty Consultant.
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tc is having a breakdown lolz
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

She's been working there for 40 years. Not too long before I was hired, they had celebrated her 40 years of service to Walgreen's. 2 weeks later, they push her into retiring (because they didn't feel like paying her that much money). Then they bring her back in January, but they're only paying her half of what they did before for the same exact work.

She really needs to shop around and get the best offer for her labor
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ManLink4321 posted...

tc is having a breakdown lolz

Show me where the breakdown is ITT
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Sativa_Rose posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

She's been working there for 40 years. Not too long before I was hired, they had celebrated her 40 years of service to Walgreen's. 2 weeks later, they push her into retiring (because they didn't feel like paying her that much money). Then they bring her back in January, but they're only paying her half of what they did before for the same exact work.

She really needs to shop around and get the best offer for her labor

That's what I'm saying. Doesn't justify how they've treated her though.
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Gravityfare posted...

Dude this topic is like..."My cashier friend at Wal-Mart was forced out after 40 years"

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Strong contender for Edgelord Supreme right here.
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Sativa_Rose posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

She's been working there for 40 years. Not too long before I was hired, they had celebrated her 40 years of service to Walgreen's. 2 weeks later, they push her into retiring (because they didn't feel like paying her that much money). Then they bring her back in January, but they're only paying her half of what they did before for the same exact work.

She really needs to shop around and get the best offer for her labor

That's what I'm saying. Doesn't justify how they've treated her though.

Agreed, but there are enough greedy hucksters out here that people need to be on the look out for their own best interests. Especially when it comes to a massive corporation like this and not like a family business (though the same can happen there too).
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

ManLink4321 posted...

tc is having a breakdown lolz

Show me where the breakdown is ITT

You: "OMG they're treating my friend unfairly...waaahhhh!!!"
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Gravityfare posted...

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Grow up

I am grown-up. This is the real world. She's a fucking Walgreens employee. She's not an American Airlines pilot with 40 years and over 50,000 miles flown.

She helps folks pick out makeup.
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ManLink4321 posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

ManLink4321 posted...

tc is having a breakdown lolz

Show me where the breakdown is ITT

You: "OMG they're treating my friend unfairly...waaahhhh!!!"

If that's how you choose to paraphrase making perfectly rational and valid comments, then okay.

If anything, you're the one acting childish here.
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isnt this basically the endgame of 15 dollar minimum wage?
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Your comment doesn't even make sense, Gravityfare.


Nobody who works at ANY retailer for 40 years is just going to be some regular, run-of-the-mill cashier.
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Kitt posted...

Gravityfare posted...

Dude this topic is like..."My cashier friend at Wal-Mart was forced out after 40 years"

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Strong contender for Edgelord Supreme right here.

Strong contender for John Lennon's dreamer right here. Thinks 40 years as a cashier should logically entail a golden parachute and IRA.
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ManLink4321 posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

ManLink4321 posted...

tc is having a breakdown lolz

Show me where the breakdown is ITT

You: "OMG they're treating my friend unfairly...waaahhhh!!!"

Seems you're having the only breakdown

Gravityfare posted...

Kitt posted...

Gravityfare posted...

Dude this topic is like..."My cashier friend at Wal-Mart was forced out after 40 years"

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Strong contender for Edgelord Supreme right here.

Strong contender for John Lennon's dreamer right here. Thinks 40 years as a cashier should logically entail a golden parachute and IRA.

ITP:
Not getting your paycut in half means expecting a golden parachute

Gravityfare posted...

CruelBuffalo posted...

Gravityfare posted...

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Grow up

I am grown-up. This is the real world. She's a fucking Walgreens employee. She's not an American Airlines pilot with 40 years and over 50,000 miles flown.

She helps folks pick out makeup.

ITP: A poster is absolutely fine with a company ass railing them.
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Yeah, I am fine with it: do more with your life than be a Walgreens makeup consultant for 40 years.


WHooAOAOaoaO I'm such an edgelord for saying it
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CruelBuffalo posted...

ManLink4321 posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

ManLink4321 posted...

tc is having a breakdown lolz

Show me where the breakdown is ITT

You: "OMG they're treating my friend unfairly...waaahhhh!!!"

Seems you're having the only breakdown

ITT: I have a breakdown just like TC.
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This guy must be like 16, because he has no idea how this type of shit works.


A person who has worked for a company for 40 years, knows more about the company than ANYBODY else there, even more than many of the managers do. On top of that, they have the type of experience that a high schooler or recent college grad won't have.


It's not just about "hurr durr she rung up cashiers for 40 years". Even if she's not in management, she'd be one of the people you turn to when it comes to daily store operations when nobody else knows what the hell to do.
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Why did she quit then if she still needed to work? I don't get that. Did she get severance or something?
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Gravityfare posted...

Kitt posted...

Gravityfare posted...

Dude this topic is like..."My cashier friend at Wal-Mart was forced out after 40 years"

It's like dude...it's a cashier job.

Strong contender for Edgelord Supreme right here.

Strong contender for John Lennon's dreamer right here..

That doesn't even make sense. Come back with a better (wait for it) comeback next time lol
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

This guy must be like 16, because he has no idea how this type of shit works.


A person who has worked for a company for 40 years, knows more about the company than ANYBODY else there, even more than many of the managers do. On top of that, they have the type of experience that a high schooler or recent college grad won't have.


It's not just about "hurr durr she rung up cashiers for 40 years". Even if she's not in management, she'd be one of the people you turn to when it comes to daily store operations when nobody else knows what the hell to do.

lmao OK dude. You keep thinking that's how the world works.

Let me fucking tell you something: Go out there and get yours. Because no corporation or entity is going to do you solid just to do you solid. She accepted the job AGAIN at 1/2 pay. If anything, she needs to gain some self-respect. So do you.
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Yeah places do this all the time even though it's technically illegal. After someone has been there for that long they're usually way overpaid for the position

I used to work at a supermarket and one of the bakery guys had been there for like 20+ years. He made $28 per hour just putting frozen cookies in the oven all day. You could train a 10 year old to do that
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SK8T3R215 posted...

Why did she quit then if she still needed to work? I don't get that. Did she get severance or something?

He said they forced her to quit/retire
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thronedfire2 posted...

Yeah places do this all the time even though it's technically illegal. After someone has been there for that long they're usually way overpaid for the position

I used to work at a supermarket and one of the bakery guys had been there for like 20+ years. He made $28 per hour just putting frozen cookies in the oven all day. You could train a 10 year old to do that

EXACTLY. Voice of reason.

It's a two-way street. She's the one who invested 40 years of her life in a dead-end Walgreens job. Did she go back to school at any point? Or perhaps try and gain a license to sell Insurance or some ways to increase her income/skillset? Or did she just...pretty much go to Wal-greens every day for 40 years?
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Gravityfare posted...

SK8T3R215 posted...

Why did she quit then if she still needed to work? I don't get that. Did she get severance or something?

He said they forced her to quit/retire

But if she couldn't afford to retire why would you agree to quit? If anything make them fire you.
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how the fuck did she work there that long without going crazy

SK8T3R215 posted...

Gravityfare posted...

SK8T3R215 posted...

Why did she quit then if she still needed to work? I don't get that. Did she get severance or something?

He said they forced her to quit/retire

But if she couldn't afford to retire why would you agree to quit? If anything make them fire you.

Don't ask me, I wouldn't spend my fucking life at a Wal-greens. I can't put myself in her frame of mind lol.
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Gravityfare posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

Yeah places do this all the time even though it's technically illegal. After someone has been there for that long they're usually way overpaid for the position

I used to work at a supermarket and one of the bakery guys had been there for like 20+ years. He made $28 per hour just putting frozen cookies in the oven all day. You could train a 10 year old to do that

EXACTLY. Voice of reason.

It's a two-way street. She's the one who invested 40 years of her life in a dead-end Walgreens job. Did she go back to school at any point? Or perhaps try and gain a license to sell Insurance or some ways to increase her income/skillset? Or did she just...pretty much go to Wal-greens every day for 40 years?

Then you can just flip it to "Why would you keep an employee around for 40 years and let them make that much money if you don't think they and/or the position is worth it?"
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Gravityfare posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

Yeah places do this all the time even though it's technically illegal. After someone has been there for that long they're usually way overpaid for the position

I used to work at a supermarket and one of the bakery guys had been there for like 20+ years. He made $28 per hour just putting frozen cookies in the oven all day. You could train a 10 year old to do that

EXACTLY. Voice of reason.

It's a two-way street. She's the one who invested 40 years of her life in a dead-end Walgreens job. Did she go back to school at any point? Or perhaps try and gain a license to sell Insurance or some ways to increase her income/skillset? Or did she just...pretty much go to Wal-greens every day for 40 years?

lol.

if Walgreens didnt want to pay her that they shouldnt have been increasing her salary beyond its value for the position.

they put themselves in this situation with shitty and lazy management and now they try to fix their mistake b\y fucking over the woman's life.
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btw is tc trolling? i cant find this in the news anywhere

if Walgreens didnt want to pay her that they shouldnt have been increasing her salary beyond its value for the position.

So wait, wait.

Let me get this straight.

It's Wal-greens fault for paying her too much for so long
It's Wal-greens fault for forcing out to retire
It's Wal-greens fault for offering her back a job and rehiring her


Is that correct? So basically they paid her too much, but didn't pay her enough for retirement?
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This is all also assuming that they're going to keep somebody in the same exact position for 40 years.


Hell, even after a year or so, the company starts expecting more of you and asks you to do more. I've had coworkers there that were gradually moved up the ladder (with pay raises) and then were kicked back down to the status of regular cashiers in favor of some new blood that didn't know their respective department nearly as well and didn't even end up staying with the job that long. By then, the veterans end up leaving, and you're stuck trying to find somebody that can do their job as efficiently as the veteran.


And if you've never worked a certain position at a particular company, then it'd be best if you didn't make claims about what that position entails and make snap judgments about their value.
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If you're going to make someone work a 40-year job with literally no fucking advancement, I think the least you could do is pay them fairly for it.
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E32005 posted...

Gravityfare posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

Yeah places do this all the time even though it's technically illegal. After someone has been there for that long they're usually way overpaid for the position

I used to work at a supermarket and one of the bakery guys had been there for like 20+ years. He made $28 per hour just putting frozen cookies in the oven all day. You could train a 10 year old to do that

EXACTLY. Voice of reason.

It's a two-way street. She's the one who invested 40 years of her life in a dead-end Walgreens job. Did she go back to school at any point? Or perhaps try and gain a license to sell Insurance or some ways to increase her income/skillset? Or did she just...pretty much go to Wal-greens every day for 40 years?

lol.

if Walgreens didnt want to pay her that they shouldnt have been increasing her salary beyond its value for the position.

they put themselves in this situation with shitty and lazy management and now they try to fix their mistake b\y fucking over the woman's life.

it costs more money overall to keep training new employees if people quit all the time. it's usually better for the place to retain employees. But only until a certain point.
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JustMyOpinion posted...

They didn't think she was worth it. So they cut her pay.

They didn't think she was worth it, even though they kept her around for 40 years when they apparently could have gotten somebody fresh to fill her role this whole time? That's not making much sense and it's especially not making sense when you consider they asked for her to come back for half a paycheck, when it would have been easier to get and train somebody new for the position, who wouldn't feel bitter and entitled to more pay, if the position is apparently so easy that anybody can do it.
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Was she at least an assistant store manager? If not then she was expendable.
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