Walgreens reviews

Cuts, cuts, and cuts. The Finance guys above would like to keep their pharmacy staff lean and also replace them with the cheapest bodies they can find with disregard for quality and retention. They force monthly writeups if you fail to meet their sometimes impossible metrics, when they say metrics should not matter. What happens is, they earn a reputation as one of the worst companies to work for, their best people leave, and then there is the opportunity cost of training new people and retaining customers due to the departure of capable team members.

In October 2019, Walgreens claims and did increase starting pay by 50 cents per hour. What the company has failed to disclose is that long term employees (associates) were reduces to the same hourly pay as new associates. Therefore, any prior increases and that due in October, 2019 were wiped out. In addition, vacation hours earned by very long term employees was reduced to match that of shorter term employees. Very sad to see a co-worker reduced from earning vacation ,after fifteen years of service, to the same as some working five years. Pay attention to the multiple times per year where associates ask customers to donate to charities. Associates are pressured to meet goals, even if it means insulting the customer in to giving.