Wouldn't ever recommend a pharmacy job at Walgreens - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Aug 13, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Can't think of any. The company is getting worse with time, I wouldn't ever fill my prescriptions here (and I'm a pharmacy employee).

Cons

Constant cutting of hours. Dangerous pharmacy environment conditions - we need to fill prescriptions faster with less help. We are getting our pharmacy hours cut every month, even though our prescription volume is constantly increasing. Mistakes are happening left and right, pharmacists are under more stress and pressure to vaccinate and perform health tests to everyone. This is a job, not a career. There is no way to move up. You do the same job everyday, eight hours, getting berated by customers and by your superiors. Pharmacy managers are dropping left and right because there is too much work being given to them. You are required to work on your vacation days. You are expected to use your vacation days to do flu clinics. This is not the company it used to be ten years ago. Crap benefits and crap insurance because we were all thrown into the marketplace. This company is getting cheaper and cheaper by the minute. To anyone interested in a pharmacy job, go ask any pharmacy employee what their honest opinion is. Your pay is capped at some point and won't ever increase; though you are required to work harder and faster.

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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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