Going down hill - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
5 Feb 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Working for such a larger company helps you gain a lot of knowledge quickly about managing and most of the store managers are very nice people to work for.

Cons

I feel like this company is heading in a very bad direction. When I first started there seemed to be almost unlimited opportunity for advancement, now I see none in ,my for see able future. The company also used to have almost a family feel to the way they treated their employees, like they really cared about them, but since Greg wasson has taken over all they have done is take everything they can away from us, and I feel like its only going to get worse.

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3.0
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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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