They need to work with the people they already have.... - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Apr 24, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, can be a fun place to work, very flexible with scheduling as far as needs for school or whatnot,

Cons

Lack of accountability as far as employees that don't work get away with everything. The employees that work hard and show up everyday get written up for the smallest things. I've been with the company coming up on 6 years and about to leave the company all together because I'm not making any money and the chance of be getting to the next level of management (ASM-T/ASM) seem to be getting less likely to happen. They don't fully train new employees before just putting them out on the floor or registers making it difficult for them to know what they are doing. That also makes lines backup and customers experience not so great. I've seen them take people off the street and put them straight to ASM-T (example one girl was hired from a coffee shop because it was to stressful there. She worked less than a week and never came back. Also kept a set of keys to the store). Where I've been working my tail off for that promotion for years and still get no further training and no advice on how to get there.

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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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