Not worth the compensation... - Pharmacy Operations Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Sep 27, 2025
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Pros

- Gained valuable experience in a leadership role - Learned various responsibilities spanning from inventory management and control, customer support, clinical guidelines, insurance claims and authorizations

Cons

- Got paid either the same or less than starting wages for other customer service jobs (food service, cashier, etc) - Given the shortage of qualified pharmacy technicians, all pharmacy responsibilities fell on me - I worked 12+ hour days at least 6 days a week during staff shortages and barely made enough to make ends meet

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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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