Poor leadership management - Patient Care Specialist Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
1 Apr 2022
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Pros

Decent PTO policy. Individual team supervisors are supportive of upward movement. They are often receptive to requests and suggestions: they encourage individual investigation and presentation of issues and solutions and if appropriate will escalate to discuss with team managers for review of solution implementation.

Cons

Pay incommensurate with local cost of living. C-suite and other leadership make very poor decisions without considering long-term effects. For example, not considering financial effect of merging with a PBM to become ARxWP SP (from Walgreens SP) and subsequently "having to" cut employee hours to make up the shortfall. Opening multiple unnecessary call-centers with poorly / untrained staff resulting in errors requiring very expensive corrections and many, many complaints to insurance plans. These and other poor choices contributed to 50% loss at the beginning of the calendar year, resulting in mass layoffs as of this writing.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

Cons

Low pay. I need to be able to multitask, run the cash register, and operate the Photo Booth lab at a fast pace.

3.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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