The Restructuring is Going Roughly in my Market

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ThrobbingWag wrote:

A bunch of people have quit in my area, and the district manager is scurrying to find replacements for them. My store just lost two managers, and the other MGT's have been pulling in massive overtime in the last week (believe it or not, overtime at Walgreens isn't a fairy tale). My name even came up at a meeting with our district manager and community leader, and our community leader even visited my store just to come talk to me about the new position.

I don't consider myself the strongest Walgreens employee, so I think this is indicative of how bad things are going for the company. lol

MGTruth wrote:

Phoenix has multiple districts. All MGT's were shifted out of the pilot district while the program was tested.
Basically, the pilot was presented to the remaining employees as a challenge. "Can you make it through the holidays without MGT's?" All of the employees worked very hard because they wanted to prove themselves and show the company assistant managers don't do very much.
I don't think any outside people were hired for the test.

MGTruth wrote:

Phoenix has multiple districts. All MGT's were shifted out of the pilot district while the program was tested.
Basically, the pilot was presented to the remaining employees as a challenge. "Can you make it through the holidays without MGT's?" All of the employees worked very hard because they wanted to prove themselves and show the company assistant managers don't do very much.
I don't think any outside people were hired for the test.

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Geraldo wrote:

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This is what I've been saying for the last several months. Pilot tests need to be done as near to 100% as possible to a "real world" environment. In cases like this it's imperative that DMs and MVPs make sure that tests like this work even if it goes outside the "real world" norm. It's to their advantage career wise. Like I've said also, this test was not done to see if they should do it but how to do it.

WAG watcher wrote:

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Can you handle a stupid question? Are there any districts that have actually changed over to the CL/ASM/STL structure? Wouldn't it make sense to do it one district at a time so you could incorporate lessons learned by any previous transitions?
I mean - does anyone else see something wrong with this plan?

Geraldo wrote:

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I think the closest thing to the full implementation would be in Phoenix but I think all they did was test the SFL concept. From what I've read the SFL concept was only done in slower stores.

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VforVictory wrote:

<quoted text>These "pilots" are a joke. Like we should base how we employ people at every Wags on a 2-3 month test in 9 stores in one market at Christmas. I'll bet the SM and EXA were working their asses off to not only "impress Wags" but to make their bonuses decent (most likely for the last time). If they dud move all the MGTs out in one fell swoop, where did the SFLs come from? Promoted the STL, that's one, then what? Did others at those stores get promoted or were STLs from non-pilot stores promoted and moved?
So if things kinda happened that way, there were no disgruntled ex-MGTs that just lost between $500-$900 per month working there. Only people that were promoted were there so they were happy making more money and worked hard to show that they deserved to be promoted.
Real life is VERY different from this FANTASY LAND pilot. MGTs were not there to be pissed
off about their future demotion/paycut and only staying til they find a better job. You can tell by reading this blog that some are not putting forth the same effort as before. They've been dissed.
That seems like the "Fatal Flaw" of the pilot.
Please anyone from those pilot stores, tell us how it went down. I really want to know the real story. Thanks.

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ThrobbingWag wrote:

A bunch of people have quit in my area, and the district manager is scurrying to find replacements for them. My store just lost two managers, and the other MGT's have been pulling in massive overtime in the last week (believe it or not, overtime at Walgreens isn't a fairy tale). My name even came up at a meeting with our district manager and community leader, and our community leader even visited my store just to come talk to me about the new position.
I don't consider myself the strongest Walgreens employee, so I think this is indicative of how bad things are going for the company. lol

nonameplease wrote:

<quoted text> 3 questions for you. Would this be in the Morristown,TN area? Was this 2 EXA's? Did they leave because of the pay cut that will be happening soon?

Geraldo wrote:

<quoted text>I think the closest thing to the full implementation would be in Phoenix but I think all they did was test the SFL concept. From what I've read the SFL concept was only done in slower stores.

PhxEXA wrote:

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No, actually it was done in both high and low volume stores. The higher volume stores got more SFLs than the lower volume stores got. Some of the stores were some of the busiest in the district. To answer a previous question, no one was hired from outside the company. They asked STLs to switch to SFLs then the store managers nominated certain employees they thought would be good for the position and those employees were asked if they wanted the position or not.

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Do you have any idea why current store employees would take the SFL position then and why store employees are turning it down now? Did something change about the pay, the role of the SFL,do employees now not see a future with the company or do you see some other factors influencing this change?(I am just trying to figure out what might be different between the previous environment and the current environment for my own curiousity.)

WAG watcher wrote:

<quoted text>Do you have any idea why current store employees would take the SFL position then and why store employees are turning it down now? Did something change about the pay, the role of the SFL,do employees now not see a future with the company or do you see some other factors influencing this change?(I am just trying to figure out what might be different between the previous environment and the current environment for my own curiousity.)

PhxEXA wrote:

<quoted text>I'm honestly not sure why the store employees took it. Maybe it was people that were looking to go into management but hadn't been able to since they haven't hired MGTs in the Phoenix market for awhile. The pay is the same. I have heard some complaints about doing an MGT job with less pay though.