Wonderful company to work for until they stab you in the back. - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Apr 9, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The atmosphere is really friendly, and the customers are wonderful. There is always a ton of stuff to work on, no matter what department you're in. The days go by really quickly.

Cons

They schedule people based on store sales. If your store happens to have a slow week, hours a cut way back that results in tasks not getting done and customer service starts lacking. When Obamacare changed our insurance at the end of last year the cost nearly doubled. I was willing to work solely to pay for the insurance, but two weeks before Christmas three full time employees were fired for the blanet term "integrity issues". We had all been with the company for years. We had all recently been employees of the month, and I was on my way to being promoted to shift lead. We all felt betrayed, stabbed in the back. Walgreens treats their full timers terribly.

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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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