Very disappointing - Senior Financial Analyst Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2015
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Pros

It's a job. This is a good starter job if you need experience. The Walgreen's name on your resume will look good.

Cons

Salaries and benefits are very low and are not competitive. Annual raises are less than 1%. Learning opportunities are minimal. Walgreen's is very tight with their money so it's nearly impossible to receive any training (except for terrible "learning" opportunities at Walgreen's University) The potential to be promoted is extremely limited as the finance division is extremely analyst heavy. Management treats their employees like a commodity. There is zero attempt to keep employees happy. If you want to be in a pleasant work environment Walgreen's is not the company for you. Walgreen's is extremely tight on spending. People frequently get trapped in the toilets because the locks keep breaking. We now even have single-ply ~3.5 inch wide toilet paper. Best case scenario there is one annual appreciation outing for finance employees. They take you to a bowling alley and provide free soda..... (last year (2014) we didn't get anything).

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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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