Store Manager in Chicago IL market. - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Oct 31, 2018
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Pros

Almost impossible to get fired, pay is decent, benefits are ok.

Cons

Not enough labor, managers have to do everything, inconsistent and unrealistic leaders at the district level and higher, run by terrible senior leadership, poor work schedule provides almost no work/life balance, need to know someone high up or be a “favorite” to advance, don’t value higher education in the store level employees, and worst of all an absolutely terrible program called Frontier.

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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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