Walgreens reviews

Effective training is nonexistent. It always gets down to on-the-job. Older stores are in wretched shape-- after a few years the facilities are ghetto. Every communication from management, no matter how nicely the words say it, boils down to four things: 1. Do more 2. Do it faster 3. Do it with less help and 4. Do it perfectly because you might kill someone. Finally, pharmacists should never, ever have to answer to a non-pharmacist regarding the pharmacist's professional judgment.

Retail is just not for everybody. At a store like Walgreens, where the hours are 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the hours as an assistant manager are not very appealing. Very few jobs these days are 9-5, 40 hour a week jobs but as an assistan store manager I worked a very random, inconsistent schedule that will require overnight shifts and consistent night shifts and consistent weekends. From my experience, being a assistant manager at Walgreens can be very detrimental to a marriage or relationship. Almost every manager at my store was either divorced or going through serious problems with their spouse because of the lack of time spent together. Once you become a store manager, life is great, but the road to glory sucks!