Terrible leadership from the top down makes for a bad experience for all - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Mar 19, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some really great people work here - too bad they aren't the ones in charge.

Cons

The executive team obviously does not know what they are doing and tries to mask their lack of experience and success with a false bravado and a lack of communication, which inhibits people from doing their jobs well. From the CEO down, everyone wants to point the finger at someone else for failures instead of accepting personal responsibility. Training is almost non-existent, but when you make a mistake due to not being trained, you may well get disciplined or fired for it. I personally watched more than a dozen great employees get terminated - not due to any wrongdoing - but because they were a scapegoat for a manager's failures. It's sad, but in the end is likely a blessing in disguise for those now gone employees - as they are freed up for better companies who may actually appreciate their talents and abilities.

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Pros

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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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