The job that Walgreens forgot - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
22 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers. Central location. Bus pass.

Cons

When my employer was acquired by Walgreens I was told by management that there would be a lot of growth and opportunity in the next few years. Instead, our access to internal opportunities (from US job postings to employee perks/discounts) was limited or nonexistent. My projects lost support and were slowly starved of resources. And my favourite colleagues left for brighter opportunities one by one. Eventually, I left too. A few years after my departure, they announced that the Canadian offices were going to close completely, and all remaining staff were laid off over the course of half a year. Working for Walgreens proper might be swell, but working for an acquisition with a location overseas felt like being abandoned over and over again.

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Cons

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