Pharmacist - Staff Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Oct 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Standard retail work, where you have great co-workers and there are jobs that are a lot worse than this. It pays the bills and is safe, but it is still the low end of pharmacist jobs to take on.

Cons

They capped our pay. They cut the hours of our technicians. Turnover rate of technicians is high. They cut benefits of the front and pharmacy. The work morale is declining and it's depressing to see so many long-time Walgreens workers hating their jobs as they see all the different changes. Overworked, understaffed, and underpaid. It doesn't matter if you are right and the customers are wrong if they put in a complaint the higher-ups will bend over backward for them while ignoring their own employees. We request new equipment or just working equipment and are constantly given excuses. We request for more hours and more technicians and they try to see if maybe we are doing something wrong with our workflow and decide to see if we can change that instead of addressing the major issue of us not having enough help and the increasing amount of responsibilities and metrics they wish us to achieve.

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Pros

Opportunity for advancement, engaging supportive environment

Cons

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Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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