Not worth it. - Executive Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Aug 28, 2010
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Pros

They have some genuinely nice and hard-working people at the store level. Most managers are fair and easy to work for, but that is really a store by store factor. Profit Sharing is decent and certainly comparable to other similar companies.

Cons

Promotion and advancement opportunities have dried up currently...they are cutting back a lot. Right now, upper management is in disarray and very frantic. Corporate has little insight as to what is happening at the store level. Legal and company policies are rarely enforced with any consistency. Scheduling for assistant managers doesn't allow for any work/life balance...unless of course one has no life outside of Walgreens. In management, you are married to the company and by married, I mean to say that you will be spending all of your nights, weekends, and holidays with Walgreens. Company morale (store level especially) is at an ALL TIME LOW. Many employees simply feel "stuck" in position because of current market status. New corporate strategies and directives have gone too far away from 4 way test and other founding principles that have made the company so successful.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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