Work only if no other option - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Mar 31, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most employees are good people, just watch out for brown nosers who will throw you under the bus if they can. With the direction, this company is taking, any Pros are far outweighed by the Cons.

Cons

Cuts, cuts, and cuts. The Finance guys above would like to keep their pharmacy staff lean and also replace them with the cheapest bodies they can find with disregard for quality and retention. They force monthly writeups if you fail to meet their sometimes impossible metrics, when they say metrics should not matter. What happens is, they earn a reputation as one of the worst companies to work for, their best people leave, and then there is the opportunity cost of training new people and retaining customers due to the departure of capable team members.

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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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