Minimum help made for stressful workplace - Certified Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
6 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible scheduling, GREAT co-workers, pharmacy manager really cared about her staff.

Cons

Our store was given the bare minimum number of hours to work with, our store regularly filled over 500 scripts/day and we would have maximum of 4 technicians working. Corporate seemed to think we were superhuman and could sell scripts while typing up and filling new ones, unloading our daily order, resolving insurance problems, and deleting old prescriptions. This made the job much more stressful than necessary, I would dread going to work knowing I would be running around the pharmacy for 8 hours. Also paid very little compared to other retail pharmacies.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

Was always able to work with my on my schedule and was always a reliable workplace little surprises

Cons

My area had a lot of scary stuff happen and a lot of time I was at the front all alone just left me feeling unsafe at times as a teen.

2.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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