Management Trainee position is being eliminated - Management Trainee Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Aug 12, 2012
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Pros

Those without a degree have an opportunity to gain management experience. New position is now open to any current employee with a performance review high enough to qualify. New postion will know what store they work at and will always stay in same location unless they ask to be transfer and it is approved.

Cons

Current Management Trainee positions being eliminated. Many currently holding those possessions are being forced to step down into a newly formed position and accept a considerable hourly decrease. Newly created position pays much less than previous MGT position. New typically starts at around $11.00 per hour and tops out at $14.50 per hour.

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Cons

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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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