WAGS treats their employees like livestock.

It is really upsetting that Walgreens has the money to spend to expand the business,
but not to invest in their employees. In recent years, Walgreens has spent $429 million for Drugstore.com ,
$1.1 billion for Duane Reade,$6.7 billion for half of Alliance Boots GmbH, and up to
$2 billion for the other half over 3 years time, and now,$438 million for 144
LaFrance Holdings Inc stores. All the while, cutting employee benefits, and 're-organizing'
how the raises and bonuses will be distributed, aimed at the goal of minimizing the amount
the company would have to pay out to employees.

The wages are poor. The Blue Cross insurance plans are hardly affordable. They have high
deductibles and out-of-pocket constipulations. No optical coverage is even offered. Many
employees cannot afford to live on their wages in the community they work in.

Salaried positions cover 44 working hours, but it is implied by corporate that these employess
must work 50- 60 or more hours, typically with out breaks and often without a day off.
Promotions are dangled like carrots in front of a horse. Taking sick days, personal days
and vacation time is frowned upon as an unspoken rule. It is understood that not working
more hours than one is paid for, labels the employee uninvested or unmotivated. This is
often used with the dangling carrot promotion to manipulate the employee to work
more unpaid hours.

Managers are frequently transferred, with little or no notice. This is disruptive and makes
it difficult for employees to secure a place to live near their store. With Walgreen's wages,
rent is unaffordable. Combined with the instability of a home store, buying a home is nearly
unobtainable.

Corporate expects maximum productivity and profits from their staff while investing the minimum
in their wages and health. The members of the corporate office who make the life changing decisions for employee wages
and benefits have substantial salaries and are completely detached from the reality of
trying to survive with such little pay.

For a company that promotes itself as a one that values health and wellness, they have
selfishly and neglectfully fallen short of their marketing vision, in lieu of billions in profits.
This is a company that can afford to offer ample wages and superior health insurance. They
just don't care to.

Wow not sure I wanna work for Walgreens I have saw a lot of unhappy people! No job is perfect but you at least want piece of mind!

First off, i firmly believe a job in this case mgt exa mgr is as easy or hard as YOU make it. This is retail. This racket is as simple as smile nod fill shelves dont run out and make money. you all act like walgreens owes you something. this is an at will job if you can do better quit your complaining and leave. No job is perfect, retail sucks .. remember this company is over 100 years old, last i checked, no 100+year employees in walgreens world

tech mom wrote:

Wow not sure I wanna work for Walgreens I have saw a lot of unhappy people! No job is perfect but you at least want piece of mind!

Right now there are a lot of unhappy people at Walgreens. Some of it depends on who you work for within the company and some of it is simply because the employees have NO IDEA what is going to happen tomorrow.
It doesn't matter what kind of worker you are; it is all a numbers game. You can be the best most knowledgable employee the store has and lose your job in a second or you can be the stupidest person on the face of the earth and as long as you can sell candy bars you will be the golden one. So a little friendly advice: learn who's ass to kiss and how to suggestive sell candy bars and you should have a long lasting happy career with Wag.
The insurance sucks, the hours suck, working holidays sucks, dealing with the public sometimes sucks, etc, etc. In the end (minus the stress of too many duties and not enough time) it's not as bad as it may become in the months ahead.
If you want to have a relaxing, enjoyable job find something else. Otherwise, buckle your seat belt and get ready for the ride.

one n only wrote:

First off, i firmly believe a job in this case mgt exa mgr is as easy or hard as YOU make it. This is retail. This racket is as simple as smile nod fill shelves dont run out and make money. you all act like walgreens owes you something. this is an at will job if you can do better quit your complaining and leave. No job is perfect, retail sucks .. remember this company is over 100 years old, last i checked, no 100+year employees in walgreens world

Did you even read the OP, or did you just see another thread slamming WAG and decide to talk down to us? OP never said 'omg it's hard working here,' he talked about how the shit they're doing is just plain WRONG.

Corporate America = shareholders are the only ones that companies should be trying to look out for. Screw the employees any way you can. As long as WAG makes money, it lives, and there's always another chump who can take jobs of the quitters.

Legal. Still wrong.

Well, when your short staffed......and half your crew don't do anything that kinda makes it hard on the one or two that DO do the work........

My Cos and Photo work 10 hour shifts per day.....main priority is of course waiting on customers BUT there's a TON of other stuff to do and in my stores case the one or two that DO do the work get bitched at when something doesn't get done..........

As to this restructing thing, I think it sucks. Anyone that is MGT has worked their ass off to get that position and deserve their pay and for it NOT to be cut. And now it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to move up........