From Sales to Shift Lead, Corporate is Killing Us - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Apr 19, 2018
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Pros

Worked with a great team, but obviously that varies by store. That's really all I can think of, problems are not with my managers, but the higher ups.

Cons

Besides the obvious (customers- retail is retail) corporate is slowly kill us off. We've faced increasing hour cuts over the last year, and now shifts are so thin that we can barely get anything done. It's killing everyone, people are leaving because it's just not worth it anymore.

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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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