Too much work, too little pay, not enough staff - Pharmacy Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
18 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company pays comparably with other chains and has larger bonuses for busier stores

Cons

They continually cut tech hours and pile on the work. My raise was poor and I received 1/4 of my projected bonus even though I met all my metrics because the company as a whole lost money. My expected bonus as a manager was the same as when I was a staff pharmacist at a different company and didn't meet the metrics. The store manager was constantly undermining me and the District Manager loved to micro-manage even though she had no clue how a pharmacy worked, and she placed emphasis on the wrong things.

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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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