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I am currently working full-time at Walgreens and want to quit as soon as I find another job. I like the PMs (money earned for selling certain items) and the employee discount, but they exploit you. I have worked at 5 different retail places before and Walgreens is the worst, worse than Walmart, but I didn't think Walmart was that bad. I am a Photo Tech and they always have 1 person in the department no matter what. Most of the time you only need 1 person running it, but Walgreens fails to understand that their photo department gets a lot busier around the holidays. Once in a while a manager will come over and help, if they're free, but usually the managers are too overworked to even do that. Yesterday I found out that providing technical support for our website over the phone is in my job description, I don't get paid enough for that. Walgreens doesn't give me time to browse their web site in order to figure it out. I refuse to explore the website off duty, for $8 an hour I don't bring work home. If a customer calls me asking for help on the website again, I will just pretend I know what I am talking about. I did that once and the customer just called another store for help.
When I am running the photo lab all by myself on a busy day, management should leave me alone. They shouldn't come to me and ask me to assist them with truck. It's like you can't have a free minute. It's bad enough I have to help cash out customers in the front end when it gets too busy.
On break I also talked with one of our pharmacy tech. She said she feels overworked as well. That is why there is always a line at the pharmacy, because they don't hire enough pharmacy techs, they are too cheap. They hire as few people as possible and work them like dogs.
The people who are most overworked are the managers. They do EVERYTHING. I just don't like the company. They treat their employees badly and it trickles down to the customers.
Shannon3635 is probably one of those pain in the ### customers who expects a lot out of a minimum wage worker. Why should I work my ### off at Walgreens, what do I get out of it? I am not looking to get promoted.
THANK YOU ED1212. Customers like Shannon36535 expect too much out of poor retail workers because she is one of your topical conservative pukes who are probably dead set against raising minimum wage. I am fine with doing my job, I am not a lazy person, but I feel as though Walgreens is taking advantage of its workers. I really hope Walgreens gets sued. I have never worked for such an horrible slave house, and remember, I worked at Walmart once and Walgreens is a lot worse.
Yes, I welcome someone to take my ### Walgreens' job. They will stay there until they find an employer who doesn't exploit them and treat them like garbage. Like I said, I don't mind working hard at all. THIS IS WHAT SUCKS, WHEN YOU WORK YOUR ### OFF AND A MANAGER SAYS "YOU NEED TO GO FASTER" "ARE YOU DONE YET" "YOU NEED TO DO THIS FASTER." THAT IS PURE ABUSE! NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME AND CAN WORK AS FAST AS THE NEXT PERSON. I am sick of being pestered by Walgreens managers because Walgreens is too damn cheap to man their departments correctly. The Saturday before Christmas, they only scheduled 3 people to close and clean up the store at the end of the night. I AM WORKING ON FINDING ANOTHER JOB AND WHEN I GO TO QUIT WALGREENS, I WILL FORWARD A COMPLAINT TO COOPERATE. TOO MUCH STRESS FOR SUCH LOW PAY. FOR $8 AN HOUR YOUR JOB SHOULDN'T BE STRESSFUL.
Shannon, there is a big difference between being ethical and being taken advantage of. I was ethical by coming to work every day and trying, Walgreens takes advantage of its employees. Walgreens is the most unethical employer, besides lifetouch portrait, I have ever worked for. Why should I be loyal to such a slave driver?
GUESS WHAT SHANNON36535 AND ASTORY11? I QUIT WALGREENS TWO WEEKS AGO AND I NOW HAVE A BETTER JOB THAT PAYS MORE AND PROBABLY WON'T TREAT ME AS BAD AS WALGREENS. MY LAST TWO WEEKS THERE I DIDN'T GIVE A CRAP. I ONLY WORKED THERE FOR 4 MONTHS. I COULDN'T HANDLE THOSE ###S IN TUCSON AZ. WORST JOB I EVER HAD AND I HAVE HAD 11 JOBS.
Please let me correct myself. I have worked at 11 different jobs, 5 of them were retail. The reason why I have had so many is because I have had many seasonal and temp positions, not because I am stupid and got fired.
My new job, the one I left Walgreens for, gave me 4 weeks of comprehensive training. Walgreens rushed me through my training, gave me only 5 days total of training and throw me out on the sales floor to run the photo department all by myself. If I had any questions I either called someone from home on their cell phone, asked a manager who usually didn't know jack or try to figure things out myself while messing things up. IF YOU WORK AT WALGREENS AND AREN'T A FAST LEARNER, THEN YOUR SCREWED. YOU PROBABLY WON'T GET FIRED, BUT YOU MIGHT BE MADE TO FEEL STUPID AND REALLY BAD ABOUT YOURSELF. Besides Walgreens, I never worked at a company that gave you so little training. An $8 an hour job shouldn't be this stressful. Every single day they have such a skeleton crew that if 1 person calls in it's a freaken crisis. THANK GOD I AM OTTA THERE!
FYI, two reasons why I am so young but had so many jobs...internships, seasonal/temp positions and working 2 jobs at the same time.
I have gone through many jobs, I will admit, but I excelled at every NON-RETAIL job I ever had, which has only been 2. Many people have told me, and I do agree, that I shouldn't be working in retail. I just don't like getting paid $7:30-$8 an hour and expected to work to the point were I am stressed. I don't mind a little job stress, but pay me more if you want more. Walgreens expected more out of me than any retail job I have ever worked for. That is why I only lasted there 4 months. With the amount of competence and work they wanted out of me, I should have been a manager.
Now I have a job that is just as stressful as Walgreens, not more, however it pays twice as much. Now when I get stressed out and my supervisor wants more, more, more, I just remember the smile on my face at pay day and keep on trucking. I am such a hard worker at my current job because I am driven by money. At Walgreens I didn't give a rat's ###, I drank on the job occassionally.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Walgreens is a terrible company to work for there is a damn good reason they cut all their pharmacy hours nationwide. They are losing the battle with CVS and Walmart and have their business strategy in the wrong direction. Lets face facts. All the customers care about is drugs. All the company cares about is drugs. The only way to gain and retain new med customers is to draw them in through (outstanding customer service) given by customer service employees. But unfortunately for employees and employer, because the said employees are deeply unappreciated and un-compensated for their work, outstanding customer interaction and services are very uncalled for, thus Walgreens is sure to die out within the decade. Sadly anyone that has gone against their gut feelings and stayed longer than 5 months is too brain washed into believing otherwise.. F*** you walgreens!
ps. got let go today and what an appropriate term :) !
10 years at Walgreens, one year responsible. Managers care about selling candies, I don't.
I also work at walgreens and find that the company does very little to support or motivate it's employees. I also worked at walmart and was surprised that walmart actually offers more to it's employees then walgreens, which is pretty bad. I think it's a little ridiculous that some people are making the argument that you should be grateful to have a job that treats you poorly simply because someone somewhere doesn't have a job. That argument only works to justify companies poor treatment of it's employees. Just because someone is desperate for work does not mean that a company should exploit them. With that logic employees should just suffer through sexual harassment, discrimination, slave labor conditions or any of the things laws have been put into place to protect us from simply because some one somewhere would be happy just to have a job. The fact of the matter is if a company can afford to pay its employees a fair wage and treat them decently then they should because it helps employee moral and boosts productivity and quality of work. Walgreens rates at the bottom of the list in customer service because their employees don't make enough to live off of, work long hours and have no prospects of moving up in the company. As a result they have bitter and resentful employees like this one who don't want to go the extra mile for the company because the company isn't willing to give them the basic necessities they need to get by, nor respect them enough to try to make their work environment bearable. Lets remember here the employees are working to earn their wages they are not asking for hand outs, if they do a decent job they deserve a decent wage,
if you care about your life at all then never work for this worst company ever. there is nothing good to say about working at this content at all. Ans that is every store you go to look at the face of all the worker even the managers are torture. is like living in a hell in a store.
everything about Walgreens sucks. the company should burn in hell if they dont fix something soon. but they won't, they don't care.
i have to say the girl that wrote this sounds Winnie, but is not being "spoiled" i have worked for the company (Walgreen's) for 3 years, and just became a pharm tech 6 months ago. the company is extremely over working and under paying all the people in the stores. i have watch this company get ride of 4 jobs to make 1 person do all the work, that's nation wide. not to mention as they call the new position a stl (store team leader) there not even getting paid 1/4 of what any of the 4 job titles they dumped. and instead of having a pharmacist and 2 to 3 technicians working 1 pharmacist 1 tech, how safe do you feel having 2 people checking verifying filling a script instead of 4? its truly said how a company who at one time truly cared for its employees does what they are doing for there employees, is now doing away with many people who have worked 20 + years for them. i get times are hard and jobs are bad. but things cant be that bad if right after they made these big changes the owner of the company gave himself a 36% raise. and as everyone is saying just quit, easy said then done when you have to be a provider, my advice to the next person that reads this is don't take the second interview endless you truly need something, and if you do, don't make the mistake i did and stop looking doing its life though
This is just another example of a work place that makes big money and doesn't care about their employee's. Look at the bigger picture people its just modern day slavery. They try to make u do a 3 person job and they know you can't get a different job right away so you are just stuck with this stupid ### job. I eventually just started going to school and realized how brainwashed this company really is. Even the managers get brain washed by each other. They don't care about you just their paycheck. They make so much money they don't give a ### they can just hire another one of you. SHEEP! REVOLT STOP SHOPPING HERE ... they promote good health but they sell CRAP! Chips and hot dogs and one small section of slim fast and protein drinks. SOME PHARMACY! SCREW WALGREENS! YOU WERE TAUGHT TO FOLLOW RULES. PUT DOWN THE SMALL PEOPLE !
I work for a cvs, management level. Many of you now know why, they get away with hring illegal immigrants, w hich is suposed ot be illegal practice, but since our lovely government cares more about them than you ro me, the taxpaerys oing LEGAL things, they get away with it. why? illegals dont complain. sorry, buts true. im not advocating its right..im against it. ive been threatened, barled att, yelled at, you name it, after 17 years. I cant say walgreens operates the same. BUt in any job, management and above want team players* and that means, hard working slaves who wont figth or tlak back, so they can get away with the illegal human rights issues, most states board of lagors dotn care about anymore, and do all the work. this is current corpoate america. new world order.
To be honest, a lot of entry-level, low pay jobs have over-worked employees. It's difficult and it sucks, but it is a common atmosphere. Many of the friends I had in high school who worked minimum wage jobs were extremely over-worked (particularly those that worked in fast food). When I worked at a furniture store, we were ALWAYS short-staffed because they were trying to save money, and I would be so stressed out and management would just expect me to do more. You just have ride it out until you can find something else. It sucks, but it's not unique to just Walgreen's, and at least where I live there is a high demand for entry level jobs. You should still try to do your very best, even if it's not paying well, as your reference may some day be worth the work.
Because you admit yourself, you dont stay on a job long so going through 11 jobs isnt hard at 2-4 a year my dear. It isnt like your 60 that is quite apparent by your speech and what you view as important.
Well nancy12 congradulations, perhaps you will be able to handle "these ###s" longer than 4 months . Just out of curiousity how old are you ?
I am 35 . I have had 4 jobs in my lifetime starting at 15 years old. I would say that shows stability, motivation, loyality, trust and determination. I wonder what you would think your previous work history would say about yourself?
Hey here is a simple solution ... if your job is to hard for you to handle then quit. ... In this economy someone will gladly take your job work it, hard and proud and not complaint. If you think you are being taken advantage of then take it up with management or higher management or move on. Plain simple and to the point.
You did not make thousands each day in photo sales. All areas with the population density to do this. Have multiple walgreens close to each other. And the do have extra floor/ manager/ stl people around that time. You may have had a day where the droor that high. Or a busy hour or so. But no all day stuck behind the counter and Can't move out at all. And did you read nancys post original post? Or since were just using assumptions and wishes here. Are u just her friend? She was saying she lies to customers. Doesn't want to help with IC3s or help with truck. And specifically said she's not going to try hard. Unless you're in walgreens to be lazy. I don't see why you'd defend that.
And seriously. I didn't post the home depot thing. They stuck my name on it when I created my account. To post on this thread. Because I work hard to earn every cent I make. Which was the main point. Before you started freaking out about details and possibilities. That don't pertain to her anyway. Since you apparently work at the busiest store there is
Astory11,
1. I didn't use actual numbers, because I don't want to reveal where I work. But the ball parks are right.
2. Is "Since any store can see the top sales and where they rank in their district" supposed to be sarcasm? Because, yes, any employee can see the top sales and where their store ranks in their district. They can see it broken down by category, week, day, month, etc. It's in store net. You'd know that if you'd ever been behind the counter at Walgreens.
3. Here's the link: THD MET team — pre-selecting interviewies
If that doesn't work, click on Astory11's name, then click on his comments. You'll see him give his 2 cents on this thread and one about Home Depot, where he says he worked there for 26 years.
Seriously, astory11, try harder. Go create a new account, pretend to stumble across this thread by accident, and then post another comment bashing Nancy.
Nonono. You didn't use figures. You didn't use facts. You used claims. Big difference my friend. Very disputable claims too. Since any store can see the top sales and where they rank in their district. Market. Or nation. And Since I've apparently worked for home depot since before I was born. And will be done with my degree in a year. Can u send me a link to this so I can get the nursing degree and pension I'll get since I can retire for working there so long?
Astory11, you call someone lazy in the jerk-ish way possible, I call you out, and your only comeback is "that's your opinion?" This after I used actual figures to disprove your argument? No one is that much of a tool.
Unless they're being paid. I notice that, in addition to working as a photo tech at Walgreens, you've worked for Home Depot for the last 26 years, and gone to nursing school for the last three.
So, do you have to have a degree to do Digital Reputation Control? I mean, you're doing it, so it can't be that hard. Is the pay good?
Fed. Let's skip the the first half cause that's just opinion. So there's no point arguing it. But I'm not sure who trained you in photo. Or what guidelines you found. But if you get a question you can't answer about part of the website. You are told to direct them to customer service. Not make something up. Lying to a customer is simply horrible service.
I also work for Walgreens as a photo tech, and I couldn't agree with Nancy more. Walgreens exploits its workers, particularly the phototechs. In my case, they constantly change my hours without notice and yell at me for no reason.
Astory11, your comment indicates you work for a photo department that doesn't do very much business (Assuming you're not just a Walgreens manager). How hard a tech's job is varies wildly by location and time of year. Right now, my job is pretty easy. But over the Holidays, it was a nightmare.
Photo techs have to check out customers, receive orders, do passport photos, visually inspect and process orders, and develop film. Plus, the kiosks confuse the computer-illiterate masses, so we have to walk people through using them. So when it gets busy, like over the holidays, you do need more than one person. Two is usually good (one to do the photo work, the other for checking out customers), assuming you're ok with long lines and angry customers.
I'll pre-empt the "No, seriously, you're just lazy, " reply. I work for the highest grossing photo department in my state. During the week before last Christmas, my lab made several grand a day. That translates into thirty or more active orders at a time. When it gets like that, it's physically impossible to run the lab with only one person.
Shannon, two things:
1. Why are you reading this website? We get it: you have the worst job ever, the rest of us are just lazy, if we hate our jobs we should quit, you'd do the job better anyway, etc. The point of this website it to warn people about terrible jobs. Sure, there are degrees of terrible. I'd much rather work at Walgreens than not work, or work picking fruit. But, if I have a choice between working at Walgreens or Walmart, I might like to know that Nancy preferred one to the other.
2. Walgreens knows that its employees want to do a good job, and exploits that fact. A job at Walgreens is only stressful if you actually care about the quality of your work. If not, you can just print photos without color-adjusting them, and not worry about promise times. It’s not like management will figure it out – most of them barely know the photo lab exists. Or, you can actually do your job, and management will yell at you because you’re not doing the stuff that they notice. So the more ethical and hardworking you are, the worse a job at Walgreens is. If you’re skeptical, look at the post before mine. Helping customers with the website is part of a photo tech’s job. When a customer asks Astory11 for help, he lies to them to get rid of them. Nancy tries to help them. But Nancy’s the lazy one, somehow.
I work for walgreens. As a photo tech. honestly. You are just a lazy person. You almost never really need more than one person in the photo lab. It won't make prints come faster. And it's not like having another person will open more kiosks. And you are there to work. So yes. You should help with truck and grab IC3s. And if someone calls you about he website, you should refer them to help center. Just curios. How many of those other 5 jobs did you get fired from
For incompetence?
- a good employee
Trying? Lying to customers, not giving 100%, not doing your best, complainting about a job you agreed to do? Perhaps you should look up the word ethical my dear. Ethical is doing the right thing even when others are not or when it is not the popular or easy thing to do. Sounds like both of you want things handed to you on a silver platter . That is not life. You are simply there to be lazy and collect a paycheck cause you dont want to actually have to be motivated enough to work hard for a living. you show up, do as little as possible, they pay you and you are ok with that. You are ok with something to ### about instead of changing the circumstances, you and ed both. No one else is doing the right thing where you work so why should either of you be responsible people and step up to the plate and make it better. And dont send me any more private nasty emails Nancy, If you want to talk about what a waste of skin I am and how you are willing to go back on welfare and live off other people nancy you can do it here for all the world to see.
Well Shannon not that it's any of your concern I was going to wait till Jan use my 3 weeks worth of payed vacation get my moneys worth.. Ethics class please my Walgreens manager is sleeping with one of his employees not that I care but no one cares about ethics boo.. I speak 6 languages hell who needs ethics.. Do you think our government oh so powerful focuses on ethics hell no.. I have nothing else to say to you Clearly ignorant people never learn anything and think the world is perfect.. Humm wonder if you own your own slave lmao.. Done!
So if you are happy to go why dont you just go?
oh my dear... have you not ever heard the clique' " every dime I earn" .. it doesnt mean I earn dimes. I own my home, have never collected any government assistance and know the true value of a dollar and a days hard work. I agree with one thing you said and that is you should definately go back to school... and when you do try taking an ethics class, perhaps that can teach you about hard work & what is right in the workplace. Best of luck to you.
Oh Shannon I am more than happy to give up my paycheck it's not worth it I'm going to focus on my school so I won't be working for every dime as hard as you and end up as a low life.. I don't want to make dimes I wanna make real money.. Just because our economy has fallen doesn't mean I will allow people to walk all over me..
So I guess the obvious question would be nancy is if you loved walmart so much why did you leave?
Thanks for thinking that ed but ive worked everyday since I was 16 and taught not expect to have somone give me anything. I work for every dime I make and I am grateful that god gives me a chance to earn my living everyday. Ed, you can take my advice as well and find another job if walgreens is to hard for you. I am sure someone will be happy to work your job and earn that paycheck.
Shannon, I know where you coming from. The one who never in Walgreen. Does know what we going though. It like a glass. A person just look in and not know how the work feeling about that job
And this clown Shannon has prob never worked and is a spoiled rich ### who doesn't know Wht we have to go through to get our paycheck
I work at a Walgreens DC and it's like a modern day slave house no ###
I have no idea brenda... but i guess i am one cause I EXPECT SOMEONE TO DO THE JOB THEY ARE GETTING PAID FOR. geez what a concept... LOL
Yes i do because you agreed to the pay and the job. If you dont want the job you shouldnt get paid for it.
Yeah anyone is going to take you seriously after an email like this? nice job dumba**. I hope you get canned soon so you have time to come on down and punch me in the face. LOL
This is what nancy decided to send back in response to my post. She sent me an email so she could hide rather than post here and take it like a woman. So becareful all cause nancy wants to punch people in the face that think she needs to grow up and be an adult.
Dear Shannon36535,
"12Nancy" has sent you a message on ComplaintsBoard.com:
you're a dump ### and I never want you to respond to any of my complaints again. If you were to ever come into my walgreens, on grant and silver, I would punch you in the face. I want to get fired anyways because I hate that place.
Ya know, im am sure that someone who doesnt have a job will be happy to have yours. You do not sound like someone who needs to be working in customer service anyway.