Disloyalty to good employees - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
May 11, 2017
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Pros

Advanced softwear well kept modern pharmacies

Cons

Walgreens Pharmists need to be managed by other Pharmists. We the Pharmacists get managed by people who's pharmacy education is limited to the least experienced technician, yet these people can influence the workflow and patient outcome. Controlling the pharmacist decisions even though the license and the decisions fall back on the pharmacist. It is dangerous when a pharmacists decisions are pressured by someone with no understanding. Over and over again we are forced to do what is right for Walgreens rather than what is right for the patient. Many times I am forced to go against my conscience when making decisions for fear of getting in trouble. Although making a lot of money for Walgreens I do not feel like I have an opportunity to get a raise or praise for what I am doing. There is no value for the employee. Walgreens focuses more on the store than the pharmacy. The technicians I have to do a lot of good work and are underpaid and underappreciated. Their jobs are much more complicated than those who work out on the floor, the store manager included! There is no overtime pay. For years I help them out when they were short-handed and now when I work for them they pressure me without extra pay!

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5.0
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Work with your schedule if you are in school.

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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