13.75 an hour MANAGEMENT - Shift Leader/Manager Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Apr 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can work any shift you want . First shift 7:30 am as a shift lead to open the store , everyone else 8:00 am until 4: 00. You get 2 paid 15 minute breaks and a lunch of 30 minutes you clock out for . Second shift 1, 2,3 or 4 pm until close . You can sleep in every morning and work a shift . If you need weekdays off to pay bills you can . If you need a 4 day weekend once a month your store manager will give it to you because mine always did . PTO starting after 6 months and you can take a day off whenever . I loved this job for its schedule and the customers I served for 5 years .

Cons

I left because there is no real managerial growth in the company . They took away ASMT , and ASM positions . You can’t ever make over 16 dollars an hour as a shift lead and becoming an emerging store manager is hard / impossible for people who have been with the company for even 10 years .

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Pros

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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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