Too much expected, too little given back - Beauty Advisor Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
12 Jan 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

decent amount of vacation days, average to fair health coverage, free flu shots for employees, 15% discount, 20% discount on store brand items

Cons

expects too much with too little staff, focuses more on suggestive selling than finding out what customers actually need or want and we get in trouble for not selling enough of "the item of the month", promotions are based less on competence and more on politics, not enough compensation for the amount of work expected, open on holidays and you HAVE to work them, cutting hours everywhere to pay for the sheer number of companies they keep buying

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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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