Shift Lead at Walgreens - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
1 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you are passionate about customer service and leading a team this is a great position for that. You can learn a lot about managing a team. When management is not there you are pretty much the manager.

Cons

13 is the max you can make in the shift lead position. Have to move up if you want to make more of course. This position is not a management position but you do the work of a manager and get paid less for it.

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2.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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