Overworked and unappreciated - Staff Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Sep 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to be in air conditioning all day. (This can also go under cons though now because corporate controls what the temperature gets set at. So most of the time a store is either freezing cold or sweaty hot, it's pretty much never at a comfortable temperature).

Cons

Everything. You are constantly screamed at by customers on a daily basis. And about 95% of the time it is because of an insurance issue, the doctor did something wrong, or the law doesn't allow for what the patient wants. Then after being cussed out for 10 minutes, you get to turn around and read about a new program Walgreens is starting that is going to make your job even more difficult and stressful. It's a non stop circle of hell.

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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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