Used to be a good place, but lately encourages a culture of superficiality and appearances. - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Apr 23, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Established leader in the market.

Cons

Culture shift; lots of changes, that seem haphazard; promotions and titles are not rewarded to those who are necessarily high performers, but are thrown around to brown-nosers, political players, pretenders; many people who are "dead weights" who seem to hang on to their jobs because they are adept are looking busy but not contributing in a real way; in a time of austerity, some upper level management expend company funds for frivolous purposes

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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