Very Poor Work Environment Created - Pharmacy Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
23 Jan 2018
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Pros

Patients remember when Walgreens did care

Cons

New management is more concerned with metrics and rushing out orders than they are accuracy or patient care. They want every store to “feel the same” for out of towners, but do nothing for the local community. District Managers (Who now we’re all former store managers) have no business being “over” pharmacists, who are more highly educated and suited for the job than they are. However Walgreens found a way to save more money at the expense of patients and pharmacists. Pharmacists are given unlimited number of tasks and expected to complete them while caring for patients, by someone who has no idea what the pharmacist is even doing.

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Cons

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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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