Function Manager - Functional Manager Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Mar 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

For Salaried employees the pay is good and even better when you are an outside hire.

Cons

No work-life balance. 11-12 hours days 5x times a week. Rotating schedule (management is subject to change departments and shift every 18-24 months. Goals vs Actual day to day operations are unrealistic. Upper management issues coaching’s and write ups to managers regardless of their knowledge. Projects and daily task are expected to be completed regardless of regular operations Understaffed from all departments Micro-managing - upper management constantly gives different directions, never on the same page with one another. Overall, the cons obviously outweigh the money but having a piece of mind and feeling like your walking on eggshells is priceless.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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