High Stress that will give you chest pains - Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
17 Sept 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Messing with the customers is fun and time goes by fast. Co workers are appreciative and supportive. Good benefits and ok pay for retail.

Cons

Multitasking takes on a whole new meaning in Pharmacy. Try taking customers prescriptions, making sure they are in the computer and all info up-to-date, typing those prescriptions, troubleshooting insurance problems from 100's of different cards, AND answering the CONSTANTLY RINGING telephone ALL AT THE SAME TIME- LITERALLY! -while you have a line of customers n front of you. You cannot accomplish one single task before another is thrown in front of you.

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

The management is accommodating and doesn't ask of to much.

Cons

At one point the heat was out during the winter, but i'll say that this was only for about a week.

3.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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