Always fighting Corporate - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Apr 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Slightly above minimum wage pay, good peers (store depending), same duties day-to-day, varying duties month-to-month to not remain monotonous

Cons

The Corporate overhead is constantly changing details, cutting hours, and not seeming to understand that the large-scale changes in a store cannot be completed in a short time by the very limited number of staff on duty at any given time. Customers, alongside the corporate pressure, never seem to understand that we are constantly short-staffed and can be very demanding.

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5.0
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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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