The sky is the limit...as long as you know the right people and are always the favorite. - Assistant Manager (MGT) Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
31 Mar 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay and benefits are amazing in management...

Cons

It is all about who you know...store managers pick favorites and if you are not a favorite your chances of promotion are none...and they like managers they can promote so if they don't like you...doesn't matter how hard you work...they will work to make you miserable until you quit. Assistant managers are given almost no authority...they have no recourse for an employee not listening or following directions. They are not allowed to write anyone up or reprimand employees in any way and the employees know it. Assistant managers do almost all of the menial labor on their own. They unload trucks, stock shelves, do resets, mop, sweep, and be able to take on any other task in the store. The employees they don't want to leave their workstations that often so management is supposed to do most of it with occasional help from employees.

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Pros

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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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