Good First time Job - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Dec 29, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working at Walgreens as a first job out from college has been quite an experience and great eyeopener. You learn a lot about pharmacy, business, and the community around you, especially your customers.

Cons

Walgreens as a company is very financially oriented in a way in which money is always on their mind. Which is good in some aspects, however I feel that patient centered pharmacies will be better for the future.

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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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