dead end - Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
May 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

benefits are given to managers fairly quickly after being hired and vacation is given right away with time off whenever you need it, but you won't be able to take it because its so time consuming working there.

Cons

weekends, holidays major and minor ones, nights, maybe overnights they always want you at work and you get to do a ton of work and never get a thank you

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3.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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