no future in walgreens - Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

You have it unless you "rock the boat" too much and as long as you kiss butt where necessary. Work/Life Balance:Non existant. You never know when you are going to see your spouse or children. Your email and cell phone are your main means of communicating with your family

Cons

Starting pay is mediocre when compared to hospitals and other pharmacy settings. Along with yearly wage being just enough to support yourself and nothing more. As far as respect goes, there is none. You get no respect from your district managers or customers AT ALL. The customers treat you like trash, no matter how much you try to please them. Walgreens has that attitude where customers are always right, no matter how many laws they break in an effort to get what they want.

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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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