Headquarters: | Deerfield, Illinois |
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Industry: | Retail & Wholesale |
Size: | 10000+ Employees |
Type: | Company - Public (WMT) |
Revenue: | $10+ billion (USD) |
CEO: | Rosalind Brewer |
Website: | walgreens.com |
I feel like the time I have worked with the company. the management is scattered. they aren't on the same page with one another.
I feel as if you are thrown into the position immediately instead of actually trained properly.
some of the workers get annoyed with you asking questions in order to complete your task at hand such as immunization shots, which is something I have never done before.
A Lot of improvement is always needed. but its a pretty flexible schedule that they will work with.
Don't let someone pass if they are close to you, like your mother or father. They like to schedule the death of a loved one.
Management is rude and you don't get bereavement pay if you've been with the company 5 months and 22 days.
Do not got into anaphylactic shock from an allergic reaction, no one will help you if you are a shift lead. You get your job threatened if something is literally out of your control.
They constantly are adding more to the pharmacy team's plate while simultaneously reducing staffing hours. There are some stores with management that at least tries, but others where you have no support. I can't blame the store managers half the time though because I know they have pressure to reach unrealistic metrics with no corporate support.
There’s room to grow & walgreens will invest in you to further you knowledge on pharmacy.
Pharmacy at first could be difficult if you don’t have a leader teaching you. But if you run into something that you don’t know the answer is there you just have to look for it. If you’re more of a hands on person you’ll definitely get that working in the pharmacy but you don’t have enough technicians & there’s really a shortage on pharmacist.
The pay for technicians is terrible especially with the amount of work you do in a day.
I worked at the Walgreens Pharmacy Care Center taking calls for patients and it was very straight forward but also very stressful. You are constantly dealing with patients who are angry and the calls are back to back with 15 minute breaks every 2 hours and 30 minutes (Depending on your hours).
Overall, not a bad place to start, paid well, but once you registered as a pharmacy tech, I would move on.
The pay is decently competitive for retail. But the cost of that pay is a lack of payroll hours for any given store. You tend to be short-staffed a lot. Which doesn't sound like much in a small store like
Walgreens, but when it's just you and one cashier, it can get hectic. Also, the company very much doesn't care about employees. Doesn't even *pretend* to care. I worked at Walmart right before Walgreens, and I was shocked to realize how much worse of a company Walgreens is. Not the worst retail job, but there are better to be found for sure.
Customers are stupid, most just steal from us and we can’t even lay a finger on them.
The system we use randomly doesn’t work. So I have to manually change prices to the sales prices and don’t get me started on the crack heads.
Corporate is separated from the reality of the stores and constantly change policies and cut hours. They moved all the Coupons online instead of the hybrid system we had going and that’s caused a lot of problems.
If you have to work at Walgreens only work there for 2-3 years as it’s not likely you’ll get a raise or promotion to management.
Coworkers are pretty cool though.
You'll be scheduled Fri-Sun every weekend for months straight.
Hiring manager acts nice at first but is condescending and will belittle you. They are not understanding about call offs even when you're really sick.
You and one other person will be the only people working most of the time and you won't have the opportunity to train elsewhere in store, you'll be on register every single shift because most of staff is under 21.
I will admit, my position can be tough at times. I can understand why some workers are frustrated and stressed. Feeling overworked and stretched can make someone feel that way. I think the manner we deal with customers and patients can make or break your attitude about your job here.
Despite the challenges I have with patients at times, being patient and helping them have a change of heart is so rewarding. It gives me purpose that I can make someone’s day feel better and make an impact in their life.
That is why we are really here. It makes me feel good about going to work. If you truly think about what you really should be doing (what I said above) you would realize that bashing the company and this location will not get you ahead in life. It only shows that you don’t want to do what you are really meant to do.
It shows you are projecting your frustrations with your attitude on someone else and not take accountability for it.
I’m happy and proud to be here. I plan to show that I can adapt and be resilient when challenges come my way.
I thank the district manager and store manager for giving me the opportunity to prove my worth to the community at this location.
My coworkers were awesome to work with but corporate is anything but good. I don’t know how Walgreens retains employees.
Management was fine until our store lost so many employees that I could barely be given a break. Requests for earlier shifts were not abided to as well.
It’s a fine place to work if you’re not fulfilling almost every single role the company has to pay offer because of a lack of workers.
Walgreens also only gives raises of a couple cents per year or half a year in so it’s not really worth it.
I observed that there’s not much room for growth at this company. I had coworkers that worked for around 20 years and were only associate managers while another guy who had only worked a year became a store manager. I don’t know how that happens but whatever. Not there anymore, don’t have to worry.
Pros: Coworkers, not tooo difficult of a job
Cons: Everything else
What is the best part of working at the company?
Flexible hours, great people to work with, family oriented, great pay, raises, discounts,
What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When company takes away hours, it shortens the hours for employees which in turn makes for a heavier stress load day
What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment and culture is Diversified
What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Greeting customer and patients., filling nd refilling prescriptions, answering phones, transferring refills , typing out new scanned prescriptions, working as a team to help other ph.techs, greeting patients at the drive thru window that are picking up filled prescriptions.
Working at Walgreens you are expected to go above and beyond not only your task but your fellow pairs as well. But when you are doing everything you’re supposed to as well as others work on top of it they don’t recognize it and push you under those who are slacking.
There is very limited advancement and they will tell you that right off the bat, the management is not what you’d expect from one of the biggest pharmacy chains in the world.
I don’t recommend working here in all honesty, you will be highly stressed and for the work, hours and pay it’s just not worth it especially as a pharmacy technician as they will expect you to skip or not even take 15 minute breaks.
Walgreens is a good company to work for, if you aren't looking to work in the pharmacy. When they cut hours, it is almost impossible to continue to get patients the care they deserve.
Corporate expects too much out of the pharmacy, and doesn't understand why things aren't getting done in a "timely manner" when we don't have the correct staff or hours to do so.
The managers aren't great, they don't really care about you, they play favorites and will let their favorites get off of their duties and make you do it even thought you already did more than was asked. When asked for a break they get mad even 5 hours into a shift without a break
If you are just starting to work in your teenage years I’d say this is a perfect place to develop communication and people skills and depending on who you work with will make this place fun. However pay is not enough, annual raise is less then a quarter, and management is bad.
From day 1 management we’re very clear on the rules that came with my role at the workplace. Training is a little slow. Only being trained on 1 thing per day. Would like to be trained on multiple roles for my position so I can feel more comfortable and able to do my job to the best possible extent.
There are a lot of things to keep track of day to day which is exhausting for a team as small as ours. If open positions were filled then the job would be much less stressful for everyone.
Our pharmacy is smaller than others but still has the same standards and requirements of any Walgreens pharmacy. Other locations have a position to manage pharmacy operations, but not ours. That means that the training, tasks and responsibilities of a paid manager at other locations fall to the rest of the pharmacy staff but without compensation - in addition to the extra work from having open positions.
The Store and Pharmacy Managers at my location work hard to make sure things run smoothly and accommodate staff as best they can. The corporate SOPs generally seem to be meant for much larger sites with a less knowledgeable staff and are not always the most efficient for our location. The "new and improved" tools rarely function as they should; some of the old tools rarely function as they should. However, we find ways to make the corporate-imposed methods work while prioritizing patient care.
Twenty years ago, pharmacists could be clinical decision makers here.
Now politics has infiltrated through policies. Management is always too new to understand needs. Equipment is outdated. Archaic ways of working. Lack of opportunity unless you are willing to work in Chicago, even for jobs that should be remote by now.
They have cut benefits (PTO rates, bonuses, stable work locations), which has caused bleeding of talent. DMs have to use their personal cars.
I had various responsibilities in 3 stores across multiple departments (general sales, cosmetics dept., Hallmark dept., photo lab tech, even briefly cashiered in the pharmacy), and let me tell you - for just above minimum wage, with no viable opportunities for advancement at my stores, it was not worth it.
Customers were awful. Many of my managers could not delegate tasks appropriately. When a live-in family member died suddenly overnight, I had to call out of work to wait for the coroner to arrive, and was told by the store manager that I was responsible for finding someone to cover my shift? No, that is what management gets paid for, not associates. And no one from my store or regional management were supportive with disability accommodations when that time came, either.
The management was extremely terrible and did not like working with their employees.
They don’t accommodate for your college schedule And they schedule you outside your availability with no notice. There is no training, you have to teach yourself which is unbelievable. There is a lot of favoritism, for example they schedule the people they like at the times they want and give the leftover shifts out which basically turns into 1 or 2 times a week. They forget to send you on the at the proper time.
You must be a multi tasking king to be ultimately successful. There seems to be new tasks laid out every two weeks. If you are not pharmacy manager you get feedback monthly. You are graded on performance basically on customer feedback. Raises are few and far between.
Even if promised they do not occur. I have been graded above average for over 10 years, and have gotten two raises in that time.
Absolute horrible company to work for. The upper management looks at employees as just a number and all they care about is their profit. They will fire store managers out of retaliation if you speak up about upper management’s behaviors. Horrible.
You get a lot of experience and it is great for a first time job. But as a customer sales associate, there are hardly any benefits.
The managers at the Walgreens I worked at were lazy, unmotivated, and sat in the office all day. They expect the customer sales associates to do all the work. When you would ask for a break they would deny it and say you couldn’t because there was work that needed to be done.
Great for experience but the customers and management drain your mental health.
First thing first Walgreens give flexible hours to workers. It's a good start to work here especially for high school students or college. Here is where the complicated part comes in. Working retail taught me a lot especially with Walgreens. They do not care for pregnant women. I was pregnant working there and I was still on the floor stocking while they had other lazy people on the register.
Pay check was trash it was every 2 weeks. I would say Walgreens is the worst place to work at while pregnant.
The company is a great employer. The work environments really do vary, over the course of my nine years, I’ve work in several locations vary from strong team oriented crews to manipulating store leaders.
Walgreens is one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, with over 9,000 stores nationwide. The company was founded in 1901 and has grown to become a household name in the healthcare industry. Walgreens offers a wide range of products and services, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, health and wellness products, and photo services. They also have a strong online presence, making it easy for customers to shop and refill prescriptions from the comfort of their own homes.
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