Very stressful job - Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Jan 23, 2026
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Pros

The pharmacists are nice and always have your back when dealing with angry patients. The manager was great as well as he was always jumping in the pharmacy to help out. Team works well together to try to survive the busy days at the pharmacy

Cons

Corporate has a budget limit and that leaves a low number of pharmacy technicians and thus trying to fill hundreds to thousands of prescriptions for patients within the same day or next day is a daunting task. Due to this pharmacy falls behind on prescriptions due and this leads to very angry patients. Thankfully right when I left they had robots rake over filling majority of prescriptions. So more prescriptions get done on time and this means less angry patients Main cons are the amount of prescriptions to get done in a short time, lack of workers to get it done due to limited budget for the store, and the angry patients wanting their drugs.

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