Don't apply to Walgreens Pharmacy. - Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Jun 30, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

I've only worked in the pharmacy for 6 months, however I have been with Walgreen for 2 years so far. But one of the good things are flexible hours. It's a clean job, ok pay for a college job. Nothing more. It also depends who you work with. The pharmacists usually tend to be pretty decent people. But sometimes if you get stuck with an @55hole you just want to shoot him/her and then yourself. Walgreens offers a discount to its employees. This discount isn't that great, because you can go out to Walmart, Target...anywhere and still pay less without the discount.

Cons

Working at Walgreen has been a good experience, however it has it's downsides to it. You will have to deal with unsatisfied people 24/7. A never ending line of people in drive through with insurance problems and such. This job makes you hate people that come into Walgreen period. Technicians work through so many problems with a million people daily and our pay isn't satisfactory. There is a lady that is a senior tech, and she's been there for about 15 years and after a while, you do not get any more raises even though inflation occurs and prices are going up. I think you can get paid up to $16/hr. Working here is like a sweatshop.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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