Rough - Assistant Manager (MGT) Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
11 May 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The money is good, they pay better than anyone else when it comes to pharmacy retail management. MGT's make more than Rite Aid Store Managers starting out.

Cons

-The stress level -The lack of communication -The technological infrastructure is way behind -How they do reviews- You tend to feel blindsided because most of the store managers I've dealt with are non-confrontational, so if you're doing bad you don't know and if you're doing good you don't know. -The staff can make libelous and false claims against management with no repercussion. I met with lost prevention over 30 times on alleged conduct issues and was only found in the wrong twice. But I was not allowed to file misconduct charges against the staff members lying about my conduct. -They are getting rid of the pay grade so no one will make MGT money every again. -The health benefits are horrible. It sucks to work for a "health care" company and you can't afford to go to your own doctor.

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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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