Stimulating work but low pay and high stress - Senior Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Intellectually stimulating and illuminating. You'll learn about as much as a P1 Pharmacy Student learns.

Cons

You're paid as much as an employee making sandwiches downtown and get stressed out by patients because they're disillusioned; everything will be done as soon as they want it done, and the pharmacist is just another short-order cook for their self-manufactured urgency for their medications

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5.0
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Pros

Easy job, very engaging and lots to keep busy with!

Cons

None that affected my ability to do my job or affected me personally

3.0
Jun 25, 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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