Must work at least 3 months before qualified for any benefits including sick days and health insurance; health insurance is very expensive and limited to 2 plan options; Must work holidays and every other weekend; Walgreens does not close for lunch so many pharmacist are unable to take a real 30 minute lunch and definitely no 15 minute breaks; Going to the restroom for 5 minutes without getting paged back to the pharmacy by a technician with an impatient customer is nearly impossible; Floaters are required to work overnight shifts if nobody volunteers; Shifts alternate between 8-4:30 pm and 1:30-10pm which is tough on a family with kids and ay care and/or elder care issues; Large district so significant commutes requiring licensure in GA and TN; 10 vacation days beginning after 1 full year of continuous full-time employment; Often difficult to find/keep good technicians and nearly impossible to fire unreliable, unprofessional, lazy technicians AND pharmacists; Hours are continuously being cut thus lowering morale, but responsibilities and stress continue to increase such that patient care and wait time suffers; Regardless of prescription wait time goals of <14 minutes, pharmacist still have to fit in time consuming MTM, health testing, patient adherence calls, immunizations with no appt necessary, consultations, etc; Lost contract with Express Scripts for a long time; Lost contract with Tricare indefinitely; Bonus structure unfair as of 2013: it's based on pharmacy sales and performance benchmarks for PICs, but staff/floating pharmacists bonus based on unrealistic, irrelavant, unachievable subjective measures from yearly evaluations with a cap of $4000 if you are superior to your peers. It requires an average evaluation of superior in all categories (average score of 5 on a scale of 5). The company gives an in depth explanation as to what constitutes a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for each benchmark graded, and it is entirely unrealistic to truthfully earn a 5 in all categories based on their strict criteria. Superior truly means superior by their definitions. Meeting company expectations (average score of 3) for each category requires a competent, caring, hard-working pharmacist, but pays the staff/floater pharmacist $0 regardless of profitts and store performance. A PIC with a lower average score assigned by a regional supervisor is still eligible for a bonus based on profitts and other business-related markers. Walgreens Corporate should just have stated that they are eliminated bonuses for non-pharmacy managers due to a slow economy rather than create impossible standards;
