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hummmnow t1_j2ee03l wrote

Reply to comment by Advanced_Car1599 in Springfield desperately needs more than one 24 hour pharmacy. by Digital-Latte

Fighting for employees to have better conditions and pay is the actionable item that will provide him real value.

Go to his GM with how many people they’ve hired in x timeframe, what they were hired at and correlate that information to how long they stayed.

Now, obviously nothing is guaranteed to work, but outright dismissing the idea saying it’s not actionable isn’t participating in good faith.

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Advanced_Car1599 t1_j2ehwi8 wrote

Define "better conditions" and "better pay." These are highly ambiguous terms. In that industry, these workers will just jump around to whomever is paying 50 cents more per hour. As long as Walgreens continues to have an increasing bottom line, that is all that matters to them.

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hummmnow t1_j2eik8x wrote

Better conditions: it currently seems that these folks are working a very busy location that appears to be severely understaffed if folks are waiting hours. This is a brutal work environment. If you have the appropriate number of techs scheduled at the right times, this would probably take care of a majority of this category.

Better pay: you said it yourself, they jump to the highest bidder and good for them. Be at or near the top of the pay grade and this issue is also fixed.

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Advanced_Car1599 t1_j2ev69p wrote

From the Walgreens leadership perspective: Our competition is minimal, we have plenty of customers that are clearly willing to wait their turn... why should we hire more/skilled people and reduce our bottom line?

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