Just a job - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
30 Mar 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Job stability....as long as you aren't management and you don't mess up you are safe. They are looking to cut managers though to help save money. They have stock options and a profit sharing program. If you are a high school or college student they are very good about working around your schedule.

Cons

The hours are crappy. If you are under age 35, or you are new, you will never have a weekend off and you work alot of evenings. You won't see a lot of fair scheduling. Store management, depending who they are, talks to employees like they are 2 year olds. Its very hard to advance into management, especially now that they are not hiring managers at all, but rather cutting them.

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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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