Barely Tolerable. - Service Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
2 Oct 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Year round employment in a seasonal area, 25 cent raise every year, decent employee discount, easy work, close to my house, small store.

Cons

Unreliable hours, unpleasant co-workers, selfish management, low pay, and no benefits (even for full time employees)! We would get scheduled for, literally, half an hour less than what we needed to qualify for benefits. Also, my manager was completely unacceptable of us getting a second job and would purposely change our schedules to conflict. We make next to nothing! How can anyone think we wouldn't try to make more money?

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Pros

Team member and entry level management very good

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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