CVS suspended an employee?

Question

So I work for CVS and had to be a witness while our Head LP manager pulled in another girl. He basically said that she had been accepting coupons for items and manually entering the coupon and said it caused a $6,750 loss to the company which she needs to pay back. She had to sign an agreement saying she would pay it back (without anyone other than me the witness present) as well as answer written questions such as "'are you sorry for what you did? Are you aware its unlawful" etc. He asked her if he knew if any employees were stealing. (isn't that LP's job not hers?) She is currently on suspension until further notice. Ive never heard of CVS suspending an employee over silly coupons. And I've never heard of anyone having to pay CVS back. Better question. Why did managers/LP let it rack up that much before telling her? What are her options?

Answer 1

they can rack up as much amount as they want. ultimately i think since she is responsible for the act and it is considered theft that she would be responsible for paying it back. "



she really doesnt have much options..... she did the wrong thing.

Answer 2

Wow I think it's funny how ignorant people are, and better yet how these people (without knowing all the facts) are so quick to pass any kind of judgement. This same B.S. recently happened to my girlfriend and two others she worked with at cvs.

I have a few problems with this, the first being that these are coupons that a machine in the store prints up when you scan your cvs card. Now it would seem to me that there shouldn't be a problem using a coupon that was just printed upon scanning your cvs card. And why would scanning the coupon or punching in the bar code make any difference. If it shouldn't be going thru then the register shouldn't allow it, one way or the other.



Second thing, is that she was shown how to do this by a manager when she first got the job. Everyone that works a register at cvs knows how to do manually enter in coupons because they were all shown how by a manager at some point during the training. That's not theft, that's bad training.

Answer 3

If she knew was taking coupons that were expired or something, then she is SOL. She broke the rules. I'm guessing, because they had to be manually entered, she knew she was breaking the rules. So there is nothing she can do. For all you know, she could have been on the take - she was getting money for taking them.



She will be fired, that's what happens with suspensions.



YOu don't know all the facts, so you need to stay out of it.



It's not silly coupons, it's her taking coupons that the company can't reimbursed for. That means higher prices for us and for employees, it means no raises because of people stealing.



She could have done that many in a very short time - which is major theft. Or it could have taken awhile to figure out the pattern of it happening and who was behind it.



She can talk to an employment lawyer, but I don't see that they did anything wrong.



You think it's not an employee's responsibility to tell LP and others about employee theft?



You don't seem to be a very good employee if you dont' see what she did as wrong.

Answer 4

What I would like to know is how does manually entering a coupon cause the store a loss. Sometimes these stupid coupons wont scan or if you scan them they say invalid even though the coupon is clearly still valid and not past the expiration. I worked at Stop and Shop supermarkets for a lot of years since I was 16 and they taught me that if a coupon for a customer does not ring make sure the date of expiration has not passed and if it has not then just manually enter it and put it in the drawer cause it will still count at the end of the day. So the only way she would be costing CVS any money is if she used coupons that were past the expiration date. I don't know if CVS has union like Stop and Shop does but if it does she can call the union rep and ask her options as an employee of that store. I still do not understand what exactly she did wrong when a lot of times the coupon does not go through at all at least where I work and then calling a manager over just so he can tell me to manually punch it in. She did do the right thing and if the coupon did ring up or if she did get the coupon punched in manually at the end of the day it still counts as the same exact price of the coupon..

Answer 5

UNLESS you are part of her scheme I suggest you hush,



Yes stealing this way is common practice and what she has done is viewed as stealing by anyone else, seems you do not.



She has the choice to pay the money back OR face felony charges for theft........so which would you pick.



Clearly you have not been working for very long as you seem to think that CVS should suck up her losses..............



They let it rack up so there could be NO misunderstanding once it reaches court, a few times could be errors or poor training this much IS theft.............



Her options are few, pay it back and / or face felony charges for theft......either way she is NOT going to be working there anymore and highly doubtful they will let it slide, so she is facing jail time should it go to court.



IF this is truly a co worker you MIGHT want to ensure you stay out of it, have little contact with her and hope that YOU where not part of the scam.





edit : seems all the thieves are out in force today...................don't ask a phucking question if you are going to dislike the replies.............personally I think we should chop peoples hands off for stealing but the how would you and your ilk get to type this crap about how you steal and the get all upset when you are caught.

Answer 6

She committed fraud, she admitted to it, she is lucky that she is not going to jail. LP's job is to investigate asking her if she knew if anyone else was stealing is their job. If she knew of others who were doing the same thing she may not have had to repay the full amount. Her options are to repay like she agreed to or refuse to repay and have the store file charges and sue her for the money.



@ Just Another Guy : The way you rack up a loss is by manually entering a coupon and not having the physical coupon, just the code.

Answer 7

If a manager was discussing this with an employee - YES it is legal.....she caused $6,750 loss for the business. As for your thought, on 'silly coupons', it appears you're as clueless as the girl on suspension. If you ever become a manager - then you'll understand.

Answer 8

I think shee should just quit life will be be hell/