A dead-end job. Work crazy hours and they expect you to put work before personal life "family". - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Sep 27, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Overall recession proof job if you do a good job.

Cons

You will work lots of nights, weekend, holidays. If you do not play the political card you will get walk on and you will not advance. Store Managers are self-driven, they get all the perks and bonuses. Assistant Managers do all the work and do not any bonuses and the yearly raises and poor.

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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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