Wonderful Company That Is Going Into the Gutter - Photo Specialist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Jul 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

most coworkers are friendly enough

Cons

low pay terrible management in most stores corporate has expectations you can't physically meet not enough staff members working not encouraged to go higher in the company corporate and management don't ask for your advice don't miss work, ever, because you will be told after a few times that you will get fired if you call out any more than 5 times in one year. Maximum of 25 cent raises once a year Unless you have seniority, expect to work only nights I really could go on for another few pages about the cons of working here

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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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