Great Experience Overall, but Rocky Outlook - Associate Manager Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Jul 24, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance --> I seldom worked late or on weekends. Best W/L balance of any company I've been Flexibility on office vs. remote (though likely must be Chicagoland based for corporate role). Office (at least the Old Post Office in Chicago) is a nice space Some wonderful folks to work with

Cons

Lower salary compared to other companies Company is performing EXTREMELY poorly at the moment, lots of layoffs. Substantial changes likely on horizon as new leadership reconsiders strategy which could lead to more instability for employees, especially as it looks at a lot of store closures. Hard to have a positive outlook for the company's financials

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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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