Some observations - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are many Walgreens stores all over the place, so you are bound to probably find an opening eventually not too far from home. You see the same customers throughout the week, so you could foster some pretty good relationships.

Cons

Management acts as if they are gods, to the point of being cult like. Hours are cut everywhere. If you ask for a favor, they'll probably grant it but will bark at you as if it asking for the world but if you do something for them and in essence the store, e.g. stay back longer, go the extra mile, etc. then 9 times out of 10 you won't get a simple thank you.

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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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