Very poor Corporate management - Night Manager Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Jul 31, 2023
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Pros

The management as in district and store, and of course, assistant, or emerging all great in my area not sure about other ones.

Cons

The training is not thorough enough, corporate doesn’t care about its employees. They do not give warnings even though it’s not the employees fault for lack of training. They will send asset protection who in this area is a male and lock you in a room with him and he forcefully interrogate you till you cry. Even though you don’t understand what’s going on. It was almost like a police interrogation room. Female alone, and possibly even a male would feel very violated and cornered. They also only allow certain hours they leave the store understaffed because this. And that leads to poor training and lack of it. Because you don’t have time to sit and pay attention to the training exercises. They also do not investigate real claims of misconduct as in drunken pharmacy, techs filling prescriptions, as handling money as well. They let verbally abusive employees to stay in the company. They have Favorites, and they do not truthfully prevent retaliation for reporting something to HR. Their stores mostly are dirty, and they do not make efforts to clean them because they don’t have time. They don’t check to make sure that they are in compliance with food handling as well. Overall just lack of training. The corporate putting deadlines on upper management and lack of hours allowed , which causes under staffing , and will create stress and miscommunication, which is forcing good employees out of the company. Even if the employees wants to leave or not.

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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

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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