Worst corporate culture and hire you full time and use you like a temp. - Registered Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2013
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Pros

They dangle of carrot of full time work with benefits, continuing education and promotions from within. Once you are there they work you like a temp. The metrics constantly changing so they have a legal reason to fire you without "laying" you off.

Cons

For the Pharmacy Technician jobs in the Central Pharmacy Operations which includes the central pharmacy, the call center, data entry of prescriptions, and Third Party Rejects (insurance) resolution they constantly are trying to fire you under the guise of "quality control" and metrics goals. A very unhappy stressful place to work. I was a "Old Timer" and had worked there for little over a year. Once I hit the high end of the salary range I was gone too.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

The management is accommodating and doesn't ask of to much.

Cons

At one point the heat was out during the winter, but i'll say that this was only for about a week.

2.0
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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