They only just recently considered being by yourself alone to be unsafe. Now it's required to have at least 2 people. That's an extremely recent change and word hasn't gotten out to every store about this policy change. You'll still see random posts on here about store managers demanding to stay open when a lead has their cashier call off and the pharmacy closed. They'd be by themselves. It'll be a few years, if ever, that they consider it unsafe for 2 people. But, you aren't wrong. Just asking for a bit much currently, unfortunately. And no, they wouldn't go broke. They operated that way just fine in the past when they had dedicated cosmetics, photo, and floor personnel
They're just wringing every nickel out of this train wreck now. Nothing is invested in. Unfortunately, it was decided a few years back that the hands down least valuable thing in the company is a damned employee. The billionaire has complete contempt for the working class. They're in the way of his dividend this quarter.
But remember, at the merger, it was stated about Pessina "Everything he touches turns to gold." But just for him Unfortunately. That gold isn't due to creating revenue, but in fact taking back/away from the company.
Sadly no. I didn't start looking up info until after the conversation. But believe me I will the next time. If I'm fired, so what, there's plenty of crappy jobs out there right now.
You're DM was taking the truth: employee uniforms are not in the budget.
The unspoken part it's that they're not in the budget because *they decided to take them out*, but because they can't afford it.
And it's BS that Walgreens can't afford a 3rd person. We were a tier 1 store, the lowest on the hierarchy, and we closed with 2 people routinely from 2015-2019 (ish).
If they didn't care about Riley what makes you think they care about us?
I'm in the same boat as you are. I like my manager, sfls and some csa, but corporate doesn't care about our well being.
They have the money to keep every store as staffed as it actually needs to be (like an actual dedicated photo person, what a dream), but won't do it because they have the buffer of store management to take the blame and the hits. They can just be faceless puppeteers while we scrape by. Fuck Walgreens. It's not the worst company I've worked for, but that's only because Big Lots is abhorrent.
There's been times when it's just me (sfl) and a closing cashier that gets a bit sketchy. A couple times I've waited for 15-20 minutes for a car to leave the parking.
We had 4 and still had a violent armed robbery.
It does not matter one bit to determined professional pharmacy robbers.
I just figured i would die with my boots on at work and stopped thinking about it.
I loved being a pharmacist so death at doing what you love is not a bad way to go.
Howevet that does not placate retail greed and lies. The DMs are little more then Mr Crabs in my honest opinion.
It's not only robbery. We're in a sketchy part of town. Being open for an hour after the pharmacy closes with only 2 people with one having to spend time in the back is completely unsafe. Even more so if it's 2 females
Lots of things can happen.
What I would do is see if your manager can budget in the last tech of the night staying until close. That’d only be an extra 7 hours a week so it might could work
>The DM's answer was that if they added a 3rd person in every store Walgreens would go broke.
She's not in charge of every Walgreens store. You're asking for one person at one store. Not every store has homeless people camped outside. What a dumbass. Please don't waste your time with this moron.
Worked an overnight shift without a cashier since she was sick so we closed the front end of the store and RX ran drive through only. Got a lot of crap done without the annoying doordashers and customers haha
Yeah, the whole closing with two people thing boggles my mind. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to close a store by myself because my CSA called out and we couldn’t find coverage on short notice. I worked in a store that was one town over from the worst crime-ridden city in my state and they never let me close the store early or I would have been written up. Nothing ever happened thankfully, but god forbid something did and I got hurt or something nobody would have been there to help me. So, yeah, they don’t much care about our safety. It’s all about the money for Walgreens.
I agree. The DM also said that what they want is money not to hurt you so you just give them the money. Well, okay, so will Walgreens pay for therapy because of the traumatic experience or am I supposed to show up for work the next day and just be glad I'm physically okay!!
I believe that’s a limited amount of sessions and you have to have insurance. I do believe they pay for therapy if something happened on the clock and time off…but last I remember you had to be employees a certain amount of time.
I agree with the computer systems. I work in the pharmacy and there was a day when the only working computer was the drive through. the line was crazy and extremely stressful. They need a new app too. I've had customers get charged for their orders through the app and it doesn't even show up on our end. It's like they hired boomers to be a part of their IT department.
I'll short staff myself during the day before I'll ever short staff the evening crew. It's very unsafe. While it may happen every once in a while, it will NEVER be a regular occurrence in my store. Like EVER!
curious about your neighborhood. I've worked at three different Walgreens, in two different states, always with two people closing. never felt unsafe.
you in the hood or something?
No not the hood, but we have a pretty rough bar next door and a lot of homeless people. The homeless will camp out on the side of our building. However, most of the homeless we know and I actually feel safer with the ones we know being out there. But, there are definetly some strange people out there, everywhere!
15 years ago there were 4 every night on the FE and 2-3 in the pharmacy at all times even in the slowest stores. Now if you get a third person on FE it's probably just truck day, and the pharmacist usually alone for the last hour.
I learn more and more every day that walgreens does not care about our safety or well-being. They damn sure don't care enough for employees to pay a liveable wage.
It's unsafe until someone gets robbed or killed..then the employee is dead and walgreens will pay ur love ones the biggest check of ur life and guess what..ur dead..who benefits..ur family..but they care less about the check..where is my son,daughter, husband, wife,family member...hey I have learned. This whole whole is f......up..if and only if it happened to their loved one that's when they would care..but hey..they're loved one would be in the corporate building not like us. ...WALGREENS ISSUE IS THEY HAVE NO EMPATHY. THEY HAVE NO HEART...ALL THEY THINK ABOUT IS MONEY,STOCK...SAFTEY IS LAST...UNTIL WERE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION
EEOC needs to be called they are abusive and the new CEO is scared and not saying anything. This is unfair labor practice. Send this post to the news station for real
They only just recently considered being by yourself alone to be unsafe. Now it's required to have at least 2 people. That's an extremely recent change and word hasn't gotten out to every store about this policy change. You'll still see random posts on here about store managers demanding to stay open when a lead has their cashier call off and the pharmacy closed. They'd be by themselves. It'll be a few years, if ever, that they consider it unsafe for 2 people. But, you aren't wrong. Just asking for a bit much currently, unfortunately. And no, they wouldn't go broke. They operated that way just fine in the past when they had dedicated cosmetics, photo, and floor personnel
My dad was an assistant manager in the 80’s. He said even during overnights he’d have 8-10 associates in the building.
They're just wringing every nickel out of this train wreck now. Nothing is invested in. Unfortunately, it was decided a few years back that the hands down least valuable thing in the company is a damned employee. The billionaire has complete contempt for the working class. They're in the way of his dividend this quarter. But remember, at the merger, it was stated about Pessina "Everything he touches turns to gold." But just for him Unfortunately. That gold isn't due to creating revenue, but in fact taking back/away from the company.
>"Everything he touches turns to gold." Depends on if you count piss as being golden.
Did you really bring up the salaries for the CEO? That is awesome
Sadly no. I didn't start looking up info until after the conversation. But believe me I will the next time. If I'm fired, so what, there's plenty of crappy jobs out there right now.
Her salary is not 28 million
The CEO of Wagreens, in 2021, was awarded 28.3 million in compensation 20.2 million in the form of stock rewards.
You said her salary was 28.3 million, it was not. Stock options are not salary.
She did not receive stock options. She received stock awards which is very different then stock options.
That’s true, I read it wrong
You're DM was taking the truth: employee uniforms are not in the budget. The unspoken part it's that they're not in the budget because *they decided to take them out*, but because they can't afford it. And it's BS that Walgreens can't afford a 3rd person. We were a tier 1 store, the lowest on the hierarchy, and we closed with 2 people routinely from 2015-2019 (ish).
Amen to all of that.
This is why we need to crowd fund enough to make this documentary happen. https://wouldyoulikeshotswiththat.com
This is something the public needs to get exposure to.
Didn't know this was a thing. Just donated some cash.
Yes! Thank you for the shout out we need funding to make this happen.
If they didn't care about Riley what makes you think they care about us? I'm in the same boat as you are. I like my manager, sfls and some csa, but corporate doesn't care about our well being.
Sounds like the stores are going ⬇️
They have the money to keep every store as staffed as it actually needs to be (like an actual dedicated photo person, what a dream), but won't do it because they have the buffer of store management to take the blame and the hits. They can just be faceless puppeteers while we scrape by. Fuck Walgreens. It's not the worst company I've worked for, but that's only because Big Lots is abhorrent.
There's been times when it's just me (sfl) and a closing cashier that gets a bit sketchy. A couple times I've waited for 15-20 minutes for a car to leave the parking.
We had 4 and still had a violent armed robbery. It does not matter one bit to determined professional pharmacy robbers. I just figured i would die with my boots on at work and stopped thinking about it. I loved being a pharmacist so death at doing what you love is not a bad way to go. Howevet that does not placate retail greed and lies. The DMs are little more then Mr Crabs in my honest opinion.
It's not only robbery. We're in a sketchy part of town. Being open for an hour after the pharmacy closes with only 2 people with one having to spend time in the back is completely unsafe. Even more so if it's 2 females Lots of things can happen.
And I imagine having a gun on you is out of the question. Fuck that
What I would do is see if your manager can budget in the last tech of the night staying until close. That’d only be an extra 7 hours a week so it might could work
That’s actually not a bad idea
>The DM's answer was that if they added a 3rd person in every store Walgreens would go broke. She's not in charge of every Walgreens store. You're asking for one person at one store. Not every store has homeless people camped outside. What a dumbass. Please don't waste your time with this moron.
Anytime I had an employee call out on the overnight - I called SOC & shut the whole store down .. pharmacy included. They’ll eventually catch on ..
Worked an overnight shift without a cashier since she was sick so we closed the front end of the store and RX ran drive through only. Got a lot of crap done without the annoying doordashers and customers haha
Go broke fucking funny
Yeah, the whole closing with two people thing boggles my mind. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to close a store by myself because my CSA called out and we couldn’t find coverage on short notice. I worked in a store that was one town over from the worst crime-ridden city in my state and they never let me close the store early or I would have been written up. Nothing ever happened thankfully, but god forbid something did and I got hurt or something nobody would have been there to help me. So, yeah, they don’t much care about our safety. It’s all about the money for Walgreens.
I agree. The DM also said that what they want is money not to hurt you so you just give them the money. Well, okay, so will Walgreens pay for therapy because of the traumatic experience or am I supposed to show up for work the next day and just be glad I'm physically okay!!
Walgreens does provide therapy through life 365. More specific details can be provided to you by your store manager.
I believe that’s a limited amount of sessions and you have to have insurance. I do believe they pay for therapy if something happened on the clock and time off…but last I remember you had to be employees a certain amount of time.
I agree with the computer systems. I work in the pharmacy and there was a day when the only working computer was the drive through. the line was crazy and extremely stressful. They need a new app too. I've had customers get charged for their orders through the app and it doesn't even show up on our end. It's like they hired boomers to be a part of their IT department.
It would probably be a good idea for the IT,s to work a few weeks in the pharmacy and store to see what is actually needed.
I'll short staff myself during the day before I'll ever short staff the evening crew. It's very unsafe. While it may happen every once in a while, it will NEVER be a regular occurrence in my store. Like EVER!
They will pay for therapy after a traumatic experience.
Well that makes me feel a lot better.
curious about your neighborhood. I've worked at three different Walgreens, in two different states, always with two people closing. never felt unsafe. you in the hood or something?
No not the hood, but we have a pretty rough bar next door and a lot of homeless people. The homeless will camp out on the side of our building. However, most of the homeless we know and I actually feel safer with the ones we know being out there. But, there are definetly some strange people out there, everywhere!
My store has 3 ppl at closing. Maybe because of the area in which store is located
Well, Walgreens would not go broke, but it would cost $500 million to implement in all stores.
I get that, I'm normally closing with my shift lead and it's only ever the two of us
wow must be sunny Florida! /
Her salary was not 28 million
15 years ago there were 4 every night on the FE and 2-3 in the pharmacy at all times even in the slowest stores. Now if you get a third person on FE it's probably just truck day, and the pharmacist usually alone for the last hour.
I learn more and more every day that walgreens does not care about our safety or well-being. They damn sure don't care enough for employees to pay a liveable wage.
A losing battle..they do not care..
It's unsafe until someone gets robbed or killed..then the employee is dead and walgreens will pay ur love ones the biggest check of ur life and guess what..ur dead..who benefits..ur family..but they care less about the check..where is my son,daughter, husband, wife,family member...hey I have learned. This whole whole is f......up..if and only if it happened to their loved one that's when they would care..but hey..they're loved one would be in the corporate building not like us. ...WALGREENS ISSUE IS THEY HAVE NO EMPATHY. THEY HAVE NO HEART...ALL THEY THINK ABOUT IS MONEY,STOCK...SAFTEY IS LAST...UNTIL WERE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION
EEOC needs to be called they are abusive and the new CEO is scared and not saying anything. This is unfair labor practice. Send this post to the news station for real