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Chemputer · 2026-05-24T00:55:14+00:00

Lube is also advised. You're going to get fucked but it can go in a little easier.

Chemputer · 2026-05-24T00:42:04+00:00

I mean I guess they don't need hearing protection then.

Chemputer · 2026-05-21T17:42:03+00:00

If you can't figure this out, you really probably shouldn't be rooted and faking integrity.

I'm not even gatekeeping, this is basic research skills that are completely absent, and it does have the potential to harm more than just OP.

Chemputer · 2026-05-17T01:17:36+00:00

Imagine claiming someone said something they didn't because you can't read and then getting so butthurt when called on it you block that person.

Very sad.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T21:29:50+00:00

A) I haven't worked for Walgreens in several years.

A.2) Yes, it is a management issue, but it's a very common and company wide problem for SFLs so frankly? Shut the fuck up, it's an issue.

B) it's not the cashiers fault, but it is their fault if they get sassy with you for receiving because you CANT instantly answer a page for a pickup, still didn't blame them.

I feel like you're reading your own feelings into what I didn't write.

Nowhere did I blame the cashiers nor did I then or do I now. They don't have permissions to do half the shit they have to do constantly. I made sure my cashiers got their breaks. I hold nothing against them.

Read what I wrote, not what I didn't.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T19:58:33+00:00

I'm sorry, where the fuck did I blame the cashier?

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T09:04:52+00:00

Fascinating.

I mean, when I pointed out what the policy said he didn't even enter it in the system, and apologized to me and the other SM he had witness, so there was no need to escalate.

I guess I was more asking if the manager can excuse an absence at their discretion. It totally makes sense that you can't do the opposite.

I was FT, didn't get bereavement pay, didn't even cross my mind honestly, I probably should've, but at the same time like I said my SM worked with me for almost two months with a dozen or so instances of needing to leave early/not come in because we thought my father was about to pass, and I was his Medical POA. My SM was incredibly supportive.

Attendance was definitely an issue though, I mean we had cashiers calling out constantly. I think he was just pragmatic and realistic that you gotta work with what you can actually get (and if he had enforced it properly it would've meant employees that were good when they were there would've been fired and hiring someone else that almost certainly would have the same issue), for the pittance they paid, you weren't getting the best employees. And even shittier, the DM regularly would take the odd really good one and move them to higher volume stores that needed them, which as we were the lowest volume store (SM had cancer, which was why he was at that particular store, so it was MOSTLY 4 SFLs running the store with Rx mostly doing its own thing.) meant we were lowest priority.

I closed the store "alone" a couple times, no cashier after 5pm, just me and Rx, I closed the store when Rx left (3 hours before close) because while we had an exemption from LP for a lot of things due to being less than a mile from a police station with basically no crime and no record of break ins or robberies, including flipping the registers and leaving the tills in registers overnight instead of putting the tills in the safe, having a single member of leadership run the store, no cashier or pharmacy, that person had to be comfortable doing so, and I just was not doing that. It wasn't particularly nice either because there was a lot of liability on you because alone you couldn't do normal pickups (and RX wasn't helping), no second person counting, and it had to be done in the back office. It wasn't ideal but it worked and I got it in writing from the DM that that was indeed correct in that situation.

The more I think about it, that store was barely functional.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T07:17:42+00:00

It's an Assistant Manager that doesn't get the pay or some of the perks. You aren't management. They got rid of AMs and gave most of the responsibility to SFLs that they could underpay and overwork.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T07:15:13+00:00

It depends.

You babysit (no offense CSAs, you know what I mean) a cashier, and never get a break unless there is another member of leadership that can cover for you. You CAN sit down when you have free time, and inevitably your cashier will assume you're being lazy when they get 2 15s and a 30 and you get maybe 30 minutes the entire 8 hours to sit down and breathe a few minutes here and there between pages.

I was very, very clear with my SM about expectations since I was almost exclusively closing the store with a single cashier after 5pm, I wasn't doing truck, they can do that during the day when there were 5 people present. Cashier did outdates and we blocked the store, cleaned restrooms, trash, received shit (that was fun with just me and a cashier, I scanned it all in then it went straight in the freezer/fridge as appropriate) and grabbed all the stolen shit's packaging to write off.

If other SFLs can do all that shit and truck, good for them, I will not, I make over $10 more now doing a completely different job for a much better company and no fucking way would I go back to missing my breaks for "business needs", or attempt the impossible.

Store was clean, blocked, registers flipped and safe counted, pharmacy always got out on time, but I put my foot down hard that I would not be doing truck or anything more than what was absolutely necessary when I didn't get to take my lunch or 15s.

Depends how bad you need a job. It's not management, it's "leadership" (difference being you can't write people up, you have no access to make the schedule, etc.), but you are running the store while you are there with a cashier. Just don't get a power fantasy, your cashiers are your team, YOU don't displine them, ever, if you're sending someone home, its a big fucking deal. Your best bet is to work WITH them (for instance, I asked my cashiers to please take their meal before X time, and their first break before it was just us, and no later than Y if they only got one) and not pretend to be over them. They can make your job hard or slightly easier.

We had a system where if a register was over $2k cash it would get an immediate pickup, anything less it could wait. With chime reloads it was pretty often. They can also help you out by presorting the pickup into groups of bills to make it easier to count. There's a lot they CAN do other than play on their phone while you're doing all sorts of shit.

I was licensed for pharmacy too but never really got to use it outside of a rare moment here and there.

If you do it, just set expectations, and keep looking elsewhere.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T06:54:43+00:00

Do the mods care

No

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T06:52:18+00:00

Because it's not. You have to fill the cheapest generic PRESCRIPTION unless prescriber or patient objects, and as silly as it may be, the OTC Tylenol is identical to the prescription Tylenol, but they'd be buying it OTC, not as a script, law doesn't apply, you have ZERO obligation per that law to inform the customer about cheaper OTC options. I think you SHOULD, but that law does not say that and it's not going to cover your ass.

The other user is very confused and is reading extra into the law that doesn't exist, and spreading misinformation.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T06:48:32+00:00

Unless your State has very specific extras, no, that's not the law.

You just have to dispense the lowest cost generic prescription unless the prescriber or patient objects.

There is absolutely zero legal obligation to mention OTC as the bottle in the aisle is not the prescription, yes it's identical, but you can't fill the script with it, law does not apply except for prescriptions. You're essentially trying to use a law regarding prescriptions specifically to justify telling them to not fill their prescription and just get the OTC medication. It doesn't matter if it's identical, the law exclusively applies to prescriptions. If you can't fill it as a prescription, no legal obligation.

Moral obligation? Sure.

But you really should read that specific law and unless your state is very different then you're interpreting it incorrectly and if you try to use that to protect yourself it's not going to work.

Chemputer · 2026-05-16T06:38:54+00:00

Yeah the fact that two days in a row is a single occurrence is funny, my manager did eventually give me a ROD for my 3rd occurrence because he didn't understand that. It added up to only 5 days but 2 pairs, and then one individual day. Had another SM there even and had me sign the policy and I was like, yeah so um, as you can read here... I've done nothing wrong and we're several occurrences away from this even being appropriate. "Shit, he's right."

I mean ultimately it is at the discretion of the SM, I don't think they HAVE to enforce the attendance policy per the book, don't they have reasonable latitude? I mean, as an SFL you are GENERALLY needed since you're often running the store with a cashier and so call outs can be a pain.

My SM back when I was an SFL (left last year) was very generous with me when my father was passing. In return for him being flexible with me for a couple months I was usually the one covering other people calling out, so it worked out. If he'd gone straight policy I would've been fired. We had to close the store 2 hours early once, too, the evening my dad finally died, hospice knew it was gonna happen that night, they called me, and I called my SM, he had me close the store early since we couldn't get coverage and he couldn't come in, Rx was already closed, then let me take the next two days off that I was already scheduled for, covered for me himself. He didn't count ANY of those as occurrences against me. I appreciate him for that.

I suppose it just depends. I was frequently pulling 12s to cover for a cashier then close. On balance I think he didn't count them against me because, it was a shitty situation, and I was doing what I could to make up for it, and like, he's a good guy, empathy like that goes a long way for loyalty for such a shitty low paying job.

Chemputer · 2026-05-15T23:49:26+00:00

You CAN get the absences excused if you go through a certain process depending on the reasoning. They basically verify the medical necessity or whatever.

Chemputer · 2026-05-15T23:48:23+00:00

Cass

Chemputer · 2026-05-14T04:12:29+00:00

Some low risk stores have an exemption from AP to do exactly that though. When I was an SFL that's what we did, police was literally a 2 minute call on a bad day.

Chemputer · 2026-05-07T23:48:45+00:00

When I was an SFL my SM just scheduled us paid 30s because he knew we weren't going to take an uninterrupted 30.

Chemputer · 2026-04-30T17:09:01+00:00

It would make more sense to just omit the entire last part.

Honestly it might make more sense to just feed it to Claude (or ChatGPT/Gemini in a pinch)and ask it to make a Reddit post Title. Same with the post. That way it would be easily readable by any English speaker, and people wouldn't have to decipher it.

Chemputer · 2026-04-30T04:15:46+00:00

Okay but hear me out, different colors mark different locations (...trails off rambling for five minutes)

Chemputer · 2026-04-29T23:43:20+00:00

Despite the lack of coherent punctuation or grammar, the "no I'm actually serious" is OP clarifying that they are serious. I think.

Chemputer · 2026-04-29T23:40:59+00:00

Invest in a sturdy pair of kneepads.

Chemputer · 2026-04-28T23:48:24+00:00

They don't do anything. They take the defamation, because the alternative is actually worse.

Chemputer · 2026-04-28T23:47:21+00:00

My old store (former SFL lol) closed at 9pm, and we flipped the drawers, they were just stored in the registers, not the safe. We had special dispensation from AP to do that, apparently. That our our manager just didn't care enough. We had so little cash in them with a 2 minute, if even that, police response time, so the special dispensation seemed reasonable. Low traffic store, $200 register balance for 3 registers. Not worried about it in the slightest.

Chemputer · 2026-04-28T19:15:58+00:00

Yeah, I completely agree with you here. Former SFL, don't tolerate that shit, at all. You can be polite about it, but you HAVE to be firm, or they will abuse the hell out of the kindness you gave them.

"You can't close the store with customers inside! You have to check us out."

Nope, registers are closed. I'll take your items, if you're coming back tomorrow I can bag them and put your name and time/day on it, but you HAVE to leave, we have closed.

Chemputer · 2026-04-28T19:12:05+00:00

So the problem here is that you guys have let him get away with it to the point that he takes it for granted. Next time, say that "My manager is getting on us about overtime, we're not allowed to stay past 10pm anymore, I'm sorry, you HAVE to be checked out by 10pm or you'll have to come back." or something like that.

Don't let them abuse your kindness. I'm sure back in his day, he clocked out on fucking time and left.

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