Better than most clerk jobs, but still not appealing - Photo Specialist Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
15 Mar 2010
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Pros

Probably the best things about working at Walgreen's is the amount of flexibility that you have in the position. There are many times that it is slow and you are able to work on different tasks. At many other stores of the same category, you are often stuck at the register or post doing the same monotonous task for the entire shift, but Walgreen's makes it possible to do other tasks in addition to the routine tasks you would expect.

Cons

As with any cashier/customer service jobs, you always run into customer that try their hardest to get under your skin. Management can be demeaning at times and I don't think that they are willing to understand how much an associate is possible of doing. Having a degree, it is very degrading being talked to the way they talk to their associates.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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