Not a place that values loyalty - IT Worker Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Payday. I say that because I can work my tail off and get great complements form management and peers but if you don't kiss up they pass you over for any advancement.

Cons

The Management lies to you and says everything is rosy (when it's not). CCR is an expensive mistake. They are isolating the long time customers. There is no real increase in sales at the stores that have CCR. How long will it take to get the investment back? Our sales are dropping like a rock. The stock is dropping also. My advice is to take a long look at the price of WAG stock before you buy. If you bought it 10 years ago you would of had 0 gain and lost much of your initial investment. Management does not keep valuable employees. Since they have to keep the share holders happy and balance the books with the expensive CCR fiasco, they look around for someone to lay off. They've been hiring off shore workers from India and we have train them. After a few weeks of this the long time loyal Walgreen employees get their job eliminated.

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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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