Stressful, Uncaring Environment - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Jan 8, 2015
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Pros

The only pros to working for this company are the insurance and the people I work with. I have a great staff at my store, excluding my store manager. Every store I've worked at has been the same, with the exception of one store manager who was forced to quit because of bogus complaints.

Cons

Upper management doesn't care about the employees in the store at all. They slash hours over and over again, and then use poor customer surveys as an excuse to cut the hours even further. We're constantly running on a skeleton crew, and everyone is burning out. And when front end employees are consistently spending 60+ hours a week back in pharmacy, which is run so understaffed it's dangerous for patients, there is something seriously wrong with the people running this business. And when you consider that most positions in the store get paid minimum wage, it isn't worth the stress.

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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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