Poor leadership, poor morale, poor pay - Sr pharmacy tech Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
10 May 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Uh, guess you can use them as a stepping stone. . They will train you, send you to school & pay for your licenses & renewals. You can learn a lot about the pharmacy industry & operations all while being paid (even if it's not much) but if you look at the job like it's an apprenticeship, a stepping stone to something better, then it could be worth putting up with all the dysfunction.

Cons

The headline says it all when it comes to being a boots on the ground worker. . You are told you are disposable! You are treated as disposable! You are the scapegoat when it comes to managements accountability. Your treated as a whipping post, more & more work is piled on an already too burdened load. All for lousy pay (barely above minimum wage) even though you have to keep a professional license!! The employer is so out of touch with its boots on the ground workers! Definitely not worth the stress, nor the abuse you take! Walgreens is no longer the company it used to be a couple decades ago. They lost their way, chasing, pursuing the almighty dollar!! They want more customers,but couldn't care less about actually caring for those customers/patients needs or safety . . They just want the $$$

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Pros

Opportunity for advancement, engaging supportive environment

Cons

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3.0
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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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