Walgreens Operations Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
dysfunctional executive management without clear accountability and limited healthcare expertise
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Energy and clear communciation of the direction of the company
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individuals willing to treat you as an human being
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Willing to teach about the business with no problem
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they lead very well and teach me how to obey order
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attitude is everything, they allow me to to my job in a respectful manner.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
I'd prefer not to say but I will say I've never seen anything like this before,
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Recognize your team as people and not your underlings.
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Actually listening to employees, stop with the lip service of "thanking us" and actually show appreciation through action instead of empty words. Do for employees instead of putting all the money in their pockets.
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Communication, organizational skills. Also respect for employees
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Big disconnect with corporate and store level. Metrics and numbers are all that matter. There is no heart, no concern for employees, patients, or customers by upper management fortunately. Walgreens has changed so much in the last decade, and not for the better. Much opportunity to do better!!
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Raises based on moving to busier stores
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the money and the fame
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Help take care of my family
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having a nest egg when i need it
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Seems competitive among other retailers
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
clearer management direction that leads to share appreciation
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23 million yearly salary for CEO while if all $20 an hour technicians walked out that place would crumble, nobody cares at Walgreens at all.
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lack of responsiveness in the hr area
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Underpaid for industry standards and overworked on old technology
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No raise in 8 years. Said I was capped. Don't know why I stayed,foolish.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Lots of talk but no action
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They're good people. Most of them hard working, and even though the company doesn't care about us, we still care about the job we do.
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have each other's back, all of us work hard
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they are hardworking, and earn every dollar.
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Everyone tries to pull together and make it work, in spite of constant corporate cutbacks, restructuring, and unrealistic metrics.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
stretched too this to have quality interactions
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Get off of your phone and do some work. Mgr stop having favorites and making it apparent.
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They are too worried about gossiping and bossing people around than meeting goals
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People need to stop drama and get along at the workplace
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humanity and curiosity would help
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
individual relationships and team members looking out for each other
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Too much bickering, and disgruntled employees - leading them to leave
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Nice people in my store
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Coworkers rallyIng together helping each other out with the unrealistic work load.
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I hate everything. I used to love walgreens before I worked there
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
hope and belief in the future
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Management and the way the run the office
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Stop treating your people like we are replaceable.. we are the front line for the customers we can make or break your company keep pushing and will see how quickly we can move the customers to shop else where
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Leadership needs to care more about the employees
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Teamwork needs to grow - not just telling people that they need to be a good team, but actually sorting issues out that make teamwork hard.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
the personableness of the hiring manager
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The interviewers were very pleasant
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It was uneventful except i was offeted 30 k sign on and got 25 k
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I was hired in 1988 with no interview and no application. Right off the street. Wasn't even there is apply.
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Nothing really. I'm just generally not big on interviews.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
More realistic outlook of job expectations and the acknowledgment that budget changes will be made monthly.
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What makes you most happy at work?
The ability to helping customers
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Nothing ,except happy engaging customers.
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Coworkers, helping sick patients with their problems
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Seeing my co workers makes me happy
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Making customers happy every day
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
need more time to spend with customers
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Get staffed and trained to provide good customer service and positive work envi
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I think I've already stated all of this.
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Need a sense of direction to move the employees and executives to a better place
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Unrealistic work loads and metrics with a very limited amount of employees that are poorly trained.
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What do you like best about your company?
Strategic goals are in line to keep build longevity. As a company- there are policiiies/initiatives in place to build employee engagement
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Often, local leadership to not support company initiatives to improve culture and work atmosphere. Negative feedback is often used against employees that speak up and little changes are made when feedback is given.
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