Pride and Prejudice at Walgreens

It would be so nice if people kept their opinions to themselves. who
cares what you thought of it.

I don't understand why you were so offended by that remark to the
point of writing a letter, to be honest. Why would you basically
offer to help get an employee into trouble over a little remark like
that? Sure, it wasn't the most professional thing in the world, but
it was just a little joke by a fustrated (human) retail worker. I
feel it's hardly something worth a letter of complaint. If her
attitude is like that all of the time with the customers and she's
really bringing down morale it would be cause for concern, but to me,
this doesn't look like anything to be upset about.

The Wal-greens here are wonderful, the clerks have gone out of their
way to be helpful. For example, I dropped my son of for school and
went to Wal-greens, arriving at 7:50. 10 min. before they opened. The
clerk said come on in and let me go ahead and shop,

I agree. I was in the post office and the mail clerk was complaining
that he did not want to be there. It was 8:00AM he could not of had a
bad day yet the office just opened. He did not stop complaining how
he wanted to be out of there. I got my business done and left
quickly. We all have an opinion about our job but I think it should
be kept out of the ears of the consumer.

What the heck do you care about someones opinion on their job? They
could have been royally screwed by Walgreens for all you know. The
person migh have been kidding.

Walgreens doesn't care about that. They don't care about you or their
employees. I commend the employee for giving the child some really
great advice!

They care about $$$$$, nothing more.

I think a company CAN instill pride in its employees. If a company
creates an environment that makes employees feel happy and
appreciated, the employees in turn will make the customers happy. And
when customers are happy, they will most likely treat the employees
well. Being treated properly is a major factor in having pride in
your work. That may sound a little naive and simplistic, but I think
it plays a major part in an employee's attitude.

To tell you the truth, I think that was sage advice.

I view such advice as beneficial - informing the child to aspire
higher and to greater heights than simply aspiring to work for minimum
wage as a retail clerk.

I did jobs like that for awhile as a teenager (like many of us did)
and was tickled pink when I was finally able to put them behind me
permanently for many reasons: rude, ignorant customers that mistreat
staff.....lack of respect from management at the retail store.....low
appreciation for the work I did by management....enforcement of
stupid, micro-managing rules....etc.

The only way Walgreens would be able to instill pride in their workers
is a) pay them much more of an hourly wage b) offer profit sharing
and/or free stock shares in a company-paid ESOP or c) give them extra
paid time off.

While a business can't "instill...pride..." they can do things to make
an employee not feel as this one does.

While we can't know the context of the comment, it sure sounds like
this employee doesn't like their job. Enough to say something about
it to a child, while out on the floor.

The implication of the phrase "When you grow up, don't ever work at
Walgreens" sounds pretty clear to me. While no company can instill
pride and respect in an employee (that has to come from within) the
company can make sure the employee doesn't vent their frustrations on
customers, particularly younger ones.

Unless you heard the context of what was being said you may have heard
it wrong.

It reminds me of the media, they take one soundbite, of someone saying
something, without any context at all, and run with it.

Perhaps he was saying.......

"Yah I got this great job at Walgreens, its not much now, but I am
thankful for it."

My mom told me when I was younger, "When you grow up, don't ever work
at Walgreens", but you know what, I love it here, and I am working my
way through college.


Btw, no company can instill pride in a company in an employee.


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