Sweat shop - Senior Certified Pharmacy Technnician Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
20 Sept 2010
Recommend
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Pros

the only plus to working for this company now is for profit sharing ---- they match almost 3 to 1

Cons

-#1 UNPROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT ( pharmacy and store managers (not MGT/EXA )) -cutbacks on hours in the busiest pharmacy in the dristrict when profits have increased over the last year - treat employees like door mats, they get walked all over - management discussing personal, confidential information with non-management employees - working in a 24 hour store------enough said - the #1 most profitable company in the WORLD is firing like crazy, yet is in a hiring freeze - putting more workload on non-salary employees, and getting rid of salary-based positions - people that work in the pharmacy need to make more money----the pharmacy is at least 70% of the sales and do way more important things than getting change and stocking shelves ( sorry managers) but thats just the way it is. Who cares about photo, cosmetics, or suggestive sale....focus on the core of your company----you are sloganed "the pharmacy america trusts" you wanna make cuts-----cut managements $ and redistribute it to the ones who really affect your corporate bonuses and pay your mortgages.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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