Walgreens reviews

not enough help lousy medical benefits typical retail environment

- Small Store - Bad Managers - Lazy Workers - Shift overlaps when hours are available - Punished for working hard - Favoritism - Schedule is put up at a moments notice Small Stores means a lot of people have to work together as a team and see each other a majority of the time. This can be an advantage or a huge disadvantage, there is constant drama if Management doesn't keep the employees in check, instead they pick out their favorites and group in with them so it feels like if you're not part of their gang, you're on the outside and are stuck with the largest amount of work. Some Managers hang out in the Office and listen/talk on their cellphones, sometimes alone or sometimes with the Managers "Pets". You can see who the "Pets" are when you're working out on the floor trying to tackle the workload of two departments when the "Pets" are hanging out in the Office with the Manager on Duty for over an hour, or they try and stick their head out there for a few mins and head right back in there again. These "Pets" don't need to face, sweep, or mop their end of the Store before they go home because they were side-tracked in conversation, they don't need to do the bathroom either. Instead the Manager will either delegate the work to the Employee in the other Department, or say nothing at all and leave things how they are. The Managers know they can throw an Employee under the bus who was working the same shift as their "Pet" if a Customer happens to complain about the quality of the store, so a lot of Employees take it upon themselves to clean both Bathrooms or Departments so they don't give the Manager on Duty any ammo. Don't be a hard worker, you will be singled out a majority of the workload while the Manager and "Pets" relax in the Office. If the "Pet's" shift ends early and you're working on your list of closing duties this Manager will constantly say "What are you doing right now?" every 30 mins or an hour until the shift is over. This Manager will try and give you their workload on top of your own because they were "Busy" in the Office and needed the help of their "Pet". You have no choice but to do what the Manager tells you, you finish their duties, run out of time to do your own, both bathrooms don't end up getting done, floors don't get swept and in the end the Manager will always come out smelling like roses and you the opposite because your work didn't get done. If you are lucky you can tell the Manager you will do their work after you've finished yours, but 9 times out of 10 it means the Store is perfectly clean in the "Pets" department as well as your own right at closing time, but as a result this Manager will be keeping an eye on you for revenge. Employees are terrified to go out to Higher Managers and complain for fear of retaliation, instead they suffer in silence for years, their job means a lot to them and they do not want to end up in unemployment and the Managers know this, know they can hold you under their thumb and make you take on as much workload as you possibly can so they and their "Pets" can rest. Shift overlaps are great when employees work as a team, but sometimes a co-worker will want to hide immediately behind the register right after they clock in, even when that employee is in the middle of something, so that the worker who came in earlier in the day will do some of that employees workload for the later shift. This can be a bad thing when the middle of something involves the employee not knowing what is going on because they are in such a hurry to get the morning employee out on the floor and doing someone else's work. Procedures are rarely followed properly, if you know the department more than the person above you, and you notice your employee is making a mistake, you can't tell them how to do things the right way because it looks like you are gunning for their job, you can't complain to Management because it looks like you have something out for their "Pets", instead you have to stay silent and continue to fix mistakes and pretend they never happened. Rules are easily bent due to "favoritism", not everyone has to follow the dress code, and "Pets" are allowed to call in sick without a doctors note while everyone else will be punished.