Thread regarding Walgreens layoffs

Not a place to get a career! Benefits arent good & cant rely on hours. If you do get health insurance it's not reasonable. Guess it's good for high school kids needing to work. Or retired people that dont need benefits or hours.

I keep wondering where the company I started my career with went. Obviously down the wrong path. CRW had the right idea when we began our journey, but with the merger and all the new corporate leadership, we seemed to have gone down the toilet. What ever happened to the employees? CRW thought they played a key role in the companies success. Now we are expendable. I really loved my job when my efforts and my opinion REALLY mattered. Now it's all about Frontier. Really? Maybe we need to really take a look at exactly what the root cause of all our problems is. It's not in the field. Look closer to home.

Very sad )hours are being cut and spread out amongst the full time employees (falls just below 30 hours )which means No Health benefits. 19 years of devotion. Devastating. I’m about to say forget heath insurance since I work for it. Is insurance worth it? My deductible is so high it takes forever to pay back the doctors anyway. People work two and three jobs I know, have many medical conditions. I’m praying for higher minimum wages, after 19 yrs I only make $13.60 very very difficult living on that. I’m mentally drained thinking about insurance and medication expenses. Dear God please give us a president who can help all of us, as there are other people who have the same or worse.

Thanks for the reply. Apparently Cunningham went to corporate and explained that California has strict labor laws and now stores are supposed to get their hours back. Maybe not all of them, but most of them.

Heu CaliASM, to answer your question, in my Area (far FAR from California) we were given the option in stores to decide how many people to cut or to just cut hours on a case by case basis. They ran all my peoples names through a formula and ranked them according to performance and tenure. We were told that we can cut hours/terminate as necessary BUT that we cant cut anyone from full to part time status unless they agree to it and if we do terminate people, we have to cut the lowest on the list first. Terminated employees get a very small severance.

It was tough to do but terminating two people was better than cutting everyones hours down to nothing. It felt slightly less unfair both to the employees let go and the remaining staff to do it this way in an upfront manner rather than jerk the whole store around on hours until we force people to quit because they cant pay their bills.

You be crazy to respond to that last comment lol. That's why it anonymous.

Please post your exact location (address and store #) and how many hours you are losing! Would also love to know the reason management gave you for the cuts!

Are layoffs by seniority in a district

What hours are being cut for techs??

@YCe0SGf-5ipy they told us that pharmacy wouldn't be affected, which I knew was bs, but it's great that they flat out lie to our faces.

I am a staff rph with 40 years + with the company. I am losing 7 hours per week. I know another rph in my district that is losing 10 hours per week. Front end budgets are being decimated. Employee loyalty means nothing anymore and it hasn’t for a long time. I am just praying the company makes it another 4.5 years at this point.

My store is losing 60 FE hours literally in a matter of one week to the next. My pharmacy is also losing 60 hours, albeit over a 5 week timeframe. How in HELL can they think a store is losing 120 hours worth of work!?!?!? I already work in one of the slower stores in my district, we already had one of the smallest budgets. Then to make matters worse I talked to an employee today, who transferred out of state a few months ago. He said his front end budget dropped to 190 per week!!! And I thought my budget dropping from 330 to 270 was Ludacris. I'm curious about what the people on here are being told, I'm seeing comments about having to layoff employees. My DM told me and my SM we wouldn't have to do any layoffs, just to cut everyone's hours. He said we were allowed to cut full time employees to part time causing them to lose their benefits because they will just be eligible for Covered California. How many hours are stores losing that they're being told to do layoffs?

Wow ,I thought i was the only one

My store is losing 35 hours, pharmacist is losing 3 hours a week and letting go one person.

Coming from my position, I can say that our once beloved company is already dead, from what I have been hearing from my superiors. However, it is all hush-hush.

The only reason for me to post this is so you as an employee (just like me) needs to be aware of the real position of the company. We all have families and need to start preparing for that day we are no longer needed.

I put in some real good work for this company and I was so proud to be a Walgreens employee. I sacrificed a lot along the way, only to now see the lights coming out and darkness setting in. At my age, I don’t think I’ll be able to get a similar position and pay rate. So be it.

So glad I left this ratchet company. I was a long term pharmacy employee (15 years). But they decided to do major cuts in 2014. Business is not good for Walgreens. You can literally be the only person shopping anytime of the day in any of the Walgreens in my area which is in California. Very sad really. Used to be the happening place. Now it’s empty parking stalls and not a customer in sight. Looks like they are following sears closely

Walgreens needs to learn to appreciate both its employees and customers. Both factions show extreme loyalty to Walgreens. Isn’t it time that Walgreens reciprocates?!?!

What about the bright future of the employees who won't have jobs anymore

It’s time to work at fast peace and push harder than ever, at the end we see our bright future!!

Well we might be losing 60+hours in our stores putting us down to about 2 CSAs +leadership, but thank goodness we still have the unfailing FRONTIER to help pull us through. SARCASM of course here. This company is ridiculous. I've been saying Walgreens won't be around 5 years from now, no question about that, but I'm not even sure it's going to last two more years.

A lot of people are going to lose their jobs and not be able to pay bills or take care of their families. I hope people living on the street because they can't afford to live is worth saving a few bucks. Customers don't want LESS employees in the store. If there's an IC3 of ten people at the front and people in photo who need help while only one person is working, we're going to lose all those p-ss-d off people. They come to Walgreens for convenience and quick checkout, not to wait 5 minutes in line because no one is working.

Corporate needs to find out what customers really want, not what will be "better" for the company. Take a survey in every store and ask customers if they'll be happier with one person running the whole store. The stress of having to do 4 peoples jobs is going to make people quit. It's already been hard enough getting rid of photo and beauty advisor, while expecting one person to do everything. Pharmacy is also getting screwed because no one on the floor means no one can help with their IC3s. So pharmacy patients will also leave Walgreens. No one wants to go to an understaffed store.

Walgreens needs to tell us if they f---ed up financially and this is why they're cutting back on budget, not lie and say it's going to be a better path. Tell us if what happened to other companies closing is happening to us. ASK people what they WANT.

Wow! Nice way to treat devoted hardworking employees! Glad I don’t work for Walgreens! I’m seriously considering not shopping there anymore, either.

BS

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