Certified Pharmacy Technician - Certified Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
18 Feb 2018
Recommend
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Pros

None that I can think of... maybe the fact that you get somewhat of a discount on the Walgreens brand of products you buy. But that would be about it.

Cons

Everything. Walgreens policy states if you are working an 8 hour shift you will receive two 15 min paid breaks and a 30 min unpaid lunch break. Pharmacy staff does good to get their 30 unpaid break. They do NOT get their 15 min breaks and barely have time to go to the bathroom if needed. Very understaffed and underpaid. Training is extremely poor and you are expected to know how to operate their system the day you walk in and if you don't - you just aren't catching on. They do not care about the employee at all - only about the bottom dollar --- they are cutting hours and there is already not enough people working in the pharmacy where I work. I am tired of being hollared at and cussed at by people that don't feel well because they have had to wait in a drive-through line for an hour or more. I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone. I'm supposed to be full-time (which by Walgreens standards is 30 hours) and I don't even get that, because its not in the budget.

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5.0
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Pros

Worked well with my school schedule Friendly coworkers Supportive in growth in other departments

Cons

I don’t have any cons, I enjoyed this job.

3.0
25 Jun 2026
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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