I worked for Walgreens through my college career and am thankful for this company and benefits. - Photo Specialist Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Aug 12, 2013
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Pros

Good work/life balance. My manager worked with me whenever I needed certain days off. Profit Sharing is a great benefit and got me started on my 401K. Time 1/2 for working on holidays. Discounts on certain products and bigger discounts combined with store coupons on Walgreens products were nice.

Cons

Truck days are quite physically demanding. Males will be doing all the heavy lifting while the females just talk and hangout in cosmetics. Weekends are always busy and we needed a full team but this is when everyone wants off work, so keeping a consistent team can be spotty. Working on Holidays were awful. Walgreens should at least close a little earlier than 6pm on Christmas day, good grief Charlie Brown. I worked more Thanksgiving and Christmas days than wanted.

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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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