Go a different direction - Senior Certified Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
23 Jan 2018
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Pros

Flexible schedules. Good insurance. I honestly don’t have many pros. You get a paycheck, a 401k, profit sharing, and insurance. Unfortunately you get no gratitude for your hard work.

Cons

Low pay Hours can get cut anytime regardless of whether you’re full time or part time. Full time for Walgreens is 30 hours, not 40. Manager and corporate doesn’t have your back. They do whatever the patient wants just to keep the business. The managers makeup their own rules and the policies and procedures are very inconsistently followed. Techs and pharmacists do not receive proper training because the company doesn’t believe in formal training even though you’re dealing with peoples’ medications and a mistake can kill the patient. Pharmacy managers do whatever they can to not take responsibility for what’s really going wrong in their pharmacy. They turn a blind eye and pretend prescriptions aren’t consistently getting filled incorrectly. I can go on for days. I worked their for 11 years. The company has changed a lot through the years for the worst.

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5.0
4 Feb 2026
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Pros

Flexible, not too many things to do, focus on your job, great customers, fun, free products. Working with customers. The area lead was amazing. It went down hill after she left.

Cons

The got rid of the position in many stores

3.0
25 June 2026
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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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