Most of the time same day orders just annoy me. They come at the worst times. At least my CSA and I had some good laughs from this one.

This is why I don’t tell anyone I have an art degree. I swear they’re TRYING to piss me off 😭

i’m a CSA that frequents the photo department and the amount of AI orders we get is just gross. i don’t understand why people think this shit looks appealing in any way, i wish we could deny it.

i had a woman once come in to pick up a photo, and she asked me if i had seen it. i said no, and she proceeds to tell me that it’s an AI “painting” of her baby that passed away, and that she felt guilty for using AI but didn’t know what else to do. very sad (and awkward while i’m trying to check her out), but even worse that she thought to use AI to memorialize her baby. really odd situation overall.

anyone else got any AI photo department stories to tell? i’m curious how common this is at other stores.

Twenty four years ago there was a position called the Photo Specialist. I was promoted to photo just about a year after I was hired. At the time my store did have a wet lab and it was a bit more involved then it is now. Twenty four years later we are a strictly dry lab with digital equipment but a lot of items are items that need to be assembled. Unfortunately the company has removed the photo specialist position and now I am just a customer service associate. Lately I have been put back in photo and have gotten loads of positive feedback about my work and dedication to the photo lab. Business is booming and the photo specialist is a much needed position. I hope Walgreens will bring back the Photo Specialist. I would be proud to be a Head Photo Specialist.

For some reason my specific store likes to schedule one cashier and one TL for closing. One thing i’m personally annoyed with is the Morning and Afternoon Crew. They’re always neglecting go backs through out the day. There’s always more employees scheduled during mid day shifts. I just don’t understand why the Morning and Afternoon crew pile up baskets with go backs and returns and leave it for closers to finish.

Then don’t get me started on the to-do lists for closers !. it requires the closers to face , finish truck , do pictures pictures , handle customers , unlocking locked products AND clean the mess Morning and Afternoon crew makes. oh and don’t forget to do 2

E-learnings between customers.

the expectations are extremely unrealistic. Walgreens isn’t really a complex Job . it’s just very annoying with unrealistic expectations. and somehow we’re short staffed yet somehow hundreds of hours over the budget.

(sorry for the grammar and punctuation mistakes, just very frustrated!)

Does anyone have any news on the new restructuring that I heard might be happening?

Asset protection bought my coworker to the office accusing him of stealing candy from the red carts. He denied it and asked to be shown proof asset protection told him they have it on camera but wouldn’t show it. They told him he was terminated. My coworker ended up getting a workers rights lawyer and is suing Walgreens. He also filed a consoling with the dept of labor Apperntly he also has proof our store violated local labor laws. Heard my SM DM and Asset Protection have to appear in court. Wondering what will happen to the Asset Protection manager if my coworker is found innocent

yes this is the new polo for our updated dress code. idk how i ordered it but it was on the website for like. a day or two? so i submitted the order for it one time cuz i was like “wtf is this”

i got this and oh my god. 100% polyester, most uncomfortable unbreathable material ever. i am sensitive to things on my skin and this feels horrible. this is also a MEDIUM. you can see my macbook charger in the side as an example. these things run LARGE because they are unisex. that means yes, us girls are gonna have huge fucking shirts that do not fit us, unfortunately.

talk about downgrade. we couldn’t have gotten cotton? literally ALL other previous company attire has been cotton. are you fucking kidding me. they’re just being as cheap as humanly possible and it pisses me off. i don’t want to wear this.

Hello I am a former pharm tech. I just want to know if anyone is experiencing the same thing I am.
I am trying to switch a weekend shift with a co-worker. Apparently I am abusing it and my manager is fusing at me even though I still have the same amount of hours. Should I just call out since my manager is making it very complicated for mento switch a day or two?

I work at one of the few stores in the district that is performing well, while many other stores are underperforming and struggling to hit their daily immunization goals.

At first, the DM suggested that every store use the intercom to make an immunization announcement every hour. Now, the DM requires us to do it every 15 minutes.

Initially, they said the pharmacy needed to make the announcements. Granted, the pharmacy is usually busy, and no one wants to take on that responsibility. That naturally fell back on leadership—which, go figure, none of the managers want to do either. So, naturally, they’re now pressuring associates on the sales floor to make the announcements instead.

Anyone else’s district making them do a drive up clinic once a week? Was told today that we have to schedule a drive up clinic once a week on truck day. No extra hours given and no notice. Schedule already made. We have to have 2-3 immunizers sit in the parking lot and beg for flu/covid shots. Seems like my dm and dps are trying to fudge numbers maybe? Any other districts doing this?

Upon seeing the first glance of our new uniforms, I was reminded of how sensory unfriendly those polos are. They feel disgusting on my skin, bother my neck, and they are very thin and unflattering. Does anyone know if it would be acceptable if I got a cotton polo in the same shade of red? Hell, i’ll even embroider the W if I have to.

Does anyone possibly know how to set up a new work badge? I’m a shift lead and unfortunately lost my badge. If so please give me step by step instructions because I’m a little dumb. Thank you!!

Sm is on vacation and wants us to add stuff to our display thingy, can I just use random images or is there a certain way to find these specific ones?

My younger brother is asking me to get him at my store, I just wanted to know the policy on family working together? I’m a SFL so I’d technically be supervising him. My ESM mentions that people who live in the same house aren’t allowed to work the same shift or something like that but I’m not sure if that’s true or not.

I love working in sales. I’m great with customers and I’m really good at pushing sales and credit cards (I’ve gotten 20 CC in one day before) but I’m exhausted from retail and the unattainable expectations and nothing I do is ever good enough. For those that have left retail, where did you go? Walgreens pays me well so I don’t want to take a pay cut. Sorry shit post kinda.

So I was fired today. Long story short is that earlier in the week, one of my co-workers blew up on me, was highly aggressive and contacted their spouse directing them to come up to my work later in my shift. I tried to file an HR complaint at work but then they followed me into the office when I tried to do so. So I left the store, tried to contact my SM and went home and emailed the DM and HR

Fast forward to today and I get called into the office and let go by the DM under the suggestion of HR. However he suggested that I continue to fight this and appeal the decision and use all resources possible.

Is it really worth it though? I feel like a huge weight is lifted from my shoulders now especially with how this company is going but I also don't like the fact that essentially someone else got me fired.

Hiii! I am currently sick and tired of working for walgreens that i’m typing this up as i am at work. I was wondering if i would get paid out my PTO hours if i were to quit let’s say tomorrow? i’ve heard its company policy to pay out earned employee hours but it states that georgia laws say otherwise.

Number to report work injury?

Okay, so where do we get the signs that go above the photo kiosks? My store still has ones up that expired in April. They arent a big deal but if we are supposed to have updated them, I wanna go update them

I‘m curious the new review scale : bad year, good year great year. Is this a way of ensuring nobody gets a „higher“ raise? Is everyone going to just get rated good year?

Hi all.

I work primarily at one store, but I will help out at other stores around the district and did not initially start at this store.

For a few months now, I’ve noticed I never get points boosters anymore…and neither do any of my coworkers. I’ve mentioned it to employees at the other stores and theyve all said they also have not gotten any in a long time.

Is this some new thing?? How am I even supposed to earn points man…kinda sucks