Retail=Horrible. - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Feb 23, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Walgreens is best known for it's Pharmacy. If Pharmacy is the career you are looking into then Walgreens is an OK place to get Pharmacy retail experience. The computer system is very helpful, but it is dull and mundane work.

Cons

Crappy hours, pissy customers, poor work/life balance, little respect. Like said before, OK place to work as a Pharmacist, but would not work there as any other job title. Also, expect to be worked like a dog. Walgreens does not care if you or your kids are sick. You are expected to be there when they want you there.

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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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