very unhappy - Store Team Lead Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Sep 24, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

They have the best retirement plan with their profit sharing very hard for other companies to compete. also, great benefits that add up the longer an employee stays with them.knowing walgreens is a company that will be around for a long time.

Cons

everything was really great when i was a simc ,until they changed the postion to the stl.I've been able to do well at the different task at times,but i am very unhappy and the pay is just not worth staying anymore.I 'm at an age where it would be hard for me to leave and a long time with walgreens but you need to happy and content with what you do day by day,before life passes you by.I guess the biggest problem I have is working the job of assistant manager and not having the title or pay and I never wanted to be an assistant manager and this makes it very uncomfortable and hard for me.I dread going to work every day and I know I need to decide what to do for me and my family.This is not what I saw in my almost 20 years with walgreens.

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3.0
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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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