Passable - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Nov 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Happened to work with some great individuals, 25% discount on Walgreens owned brands, 15% on everything else, free Prescription savings club for employees. A lot of people below the corporate level seemed like actual humans.

Cons

Basically every single cliche of the corporate world applies to walgreens - ridiculous initiatives mandated from corporate, terrible benefits and raises, and eventually someone is going to get seriously hurt if they keep pushing their pharmacists and technicians the way they are. Hours are constantly being cut and there are little to no resources for training or attracting new employees.

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Cons

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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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