Good pay but disorganized - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
15 Mar 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has a good grasp of pharmacy and has some good systems back there. The pay is good for the work of the manager. It is a growing sector of health care and should see growth for some time

Cons

Upper management is out of touch with the stores and cuts in staff has lead to increased workload. They are not interested in the stress level for the stores. the health plans have been cut. Poor ordering models on promotional merchandise. Upper management can get buried in trivia or even worse are surprised by statistics that are so obvious. Computer systems are breaking down to to lack of payroll. Support for the stores is missing due to budget cuts.

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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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