Former asst manager - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Dec 13, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Better pay than most retail, employee discount, paid holidays, 401k match, met some amazing people with phenomenal work ethic, learned about pharmacy and OTC items, promotions are feasible if you are smart and work hard. It's never boring.

Cons

LONG DAYS. An "on shift lunch" in a high volume store equals no lunch. The store manager and district manager can make or break your experience working here. There are some great managers, but there are more underhanded and deceitful ones. No work life balance for management without putting yourself in hot water. .. Constantly cutting hours beyond what seems prudent or logical

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Pros

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Cons

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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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