It used to be better... - Assistant Manager (MGT) Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Jun 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

There are great opportunities to develop salesmanship abilities and to get really great experience in management. The benefits, although not as good as they were in years past, are still heads above the rest.

Cons

There is little to no growth. The company has the focus on the customer and spends so much time and energy chasing after failed initiatives and the ever elusive stock price of years past. It has become a 'Wal-Mart' culture of dumping on employees and having unreal expectations for little help.

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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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