I’ve been working at Walgreens for four weeks now, and honestly, I hate it. I’m only staying for the pay, which is decent compared to the majority of retail jobs. Our store is severely understaffed. It only has six workers, they fired one because he kept calling out since he hated management.
The biggest problem in this store is the management. It’s run by two older ladies, and it feels like they want you to do everything but don’t bring anything to the table themselves. One thing I absolutely hate is how loud they are. They will literally embarrass you in front of customers. And they’re swear they’re good at their jobs when we still got truck left over from December.
I’m pretty good at counting and handling cash, but I get overstimulated when doing pickups because they want to talk to customers while I’m counting, and it messes me up. I made a mistake two days ago during a pickup it was supposed to be $2,000, but I counted $2,020. The assistant manager started asking me math questions in front of customers, saying that my generation doesn’t know how to count, and she kept dragging it out, all because I accidentally counted an extra $20. I was so embarrassed in front of the customers that I literally wanted to cry.
I also got yelled at a week ago by the other manager because I wasn’t reading the full script about the credit cards on the screen. I went into the back and cried. This job has been a nightmare. On top of that, they assign me tasks where I can’t be at the register and then yell at me when I don’t see customers.
On top of that I can’t even rest! They’ll work me from like 2pm to 12am because that’s when we close. I can only have a 30 minute break and then the next day they’ll have me come in at 8am. I’ve literally lost so much weight for this job. It’s been stressing me out.