good pay, but bad management - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, could be fun team to work with

Cons

Greedy corporate makes bad decisions. look at company stock. it is going down. most of the employees are burned out, tired, depressed, and the corporate keeps pushing "do more" with less people, because they keep cutting hours. Imagine doing 500 prescriptions with only 1 pharmacist and 3 techs. One of the tech will be new, because previous one quit. So you (a pharmacist) need to train, fill, answer phone calls within 65 seconds, do consultation, shots, reviewing, verifying. helping with putting order away, releasing out of stocks prescriptions, solving insurance and other problems. And then management want to cut hours of your 3rd tech to save money...

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Pros

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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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