Earn your keep. - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Sep 21, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Ask questions, you can only learn what you want to learn. There are lots of opportunities to grow from within, to a point. Be willing to work with the needs of the company to get ahead. Need to have at least some education to move ahead and be patient.

Cons

The new restructuring is asking a lot for shift leads and asst. managers to take on. ASM and Store Management is stagnant in the district and will bottle-neck promotion for awhile. Too much of the benefits are being stripped away. It'll be a good company years from now but watching erode in my 5 yrs is too much and its time for me to move on for personal growth.

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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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