Boots Reviews

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It can be tiring sometimes

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This store is falling to pieces, it's absolutely vile as a working environment. The Boots company does NOT value or care about their staff members. The toilets are appalling, no hot water, the basement smells of sewage. The building is in ruins and they expect you to just ignore it. The do not train you, welcome you in as a valued team member, or try to encourage you in any way. You get nothing which is why they cannot retain any staff. All the nicest managers have left. Two managers have left in two months. I have never worked anywhere that is run in such a poor manner, they don't even try to pretend that you matter. Boots was great fifteen years ago, but not no, they seem intent on letting it get run into the ground. For a company that portrays that they are all about health, they are an absolute joke!

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- constant work load pressure with hardly any empathy or sympathy from management , with a huge amount of responsibility to take on multiple services - Feeling like you have to multi-task and self-check a lot due to lack of staff and constant long queues , which are prone to more errors and feels unsafe running the pharmacy - Manager always on your case to complete so much ridiculous unnecessary e-learning that isn't even that relevant to you. - Constantly having to ask for more support with another full-time pharmacist to be hired for a busier bigger store but having insufficient response back

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Sociopathic Management. Area management will bully lower management. Pharmacies ran dangerously short staffed. Tactfully no direct access to human resources any issues go via manager to an outlet called people point. Staff privacy is non existent, information discussed to area manager/some store based managers in private is spoken about not constructively but like gossip.

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Hybrid working is slowly but surely being removed, for no good reason. Pay is poor compared to brands or smaller companies

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Workload and Stress: The retail industry, including pharmacy and beauty, can be fast-paced and demanding. Employees may experience high workloads and stress, particularly during peak hours or busy seasons. Customer Service Challenges: Dealing with customers, especially in a retail setting, can be challenging. Employees may encounter difficult customers or face situations that require patience and effective communication.

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- Varies depending on your manager. Some very good and others very bad - Also varies depending on overall company plans - Increases in workload not always dealt with in good time, often staff who haven't been made redundant are overworked - Too much of an expectation to 'go the extra mile' - Lack of career progression, unless you want to be a manager. Particularly lacking if you're disabled - Open plan office is not amenable for everyone - Expected to train others a lot - More difficult for introverts who don't network - Not always flexible or understanding enough of people with disabilities, particularly invisible disabilities. HR approaches and ethos around this need updating. They also need to be more open to suggestions from disabled people rather than deciding what they need

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The work can feel very repetitive at times

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Annual salary is slightly lower compared to other community pharmacy

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Worked at the company since I was 16. Watched it get worse and worse, the stores look battered and dated. Staffing levels are being cut to a dangerous level, and even when you think it can’t be slashed anymore - it’s still cut. No security, despite assaults on staff - staff report not feeling safe; but nothing is done about it. Any overtime you do as a manager isn’t paid, it’s “your choice to do it” even if the overtime means the store can open. The pharmacies are dangerous due to staffing. The stores aren’t safe due to no security. They only increased pharmacist’s wages because they were haemorrhaging pharmacists out of the door. Very inflexible. The non-pharmacist area manager was getting me to tidy shelves, despite the fact that I was signed in as RP, and had a queue. Young pharmacists…. Do not waste your career here.