I am a current Walgreen's employee. I work at Walgreen's in Jefferson City, MO. I have been employeed for more than one year at my location.
During the course of my employment at Walgreen's I have endured more than I ever thought possible from this corporation. I have had to report a prescription misfill and then was retaliated against for doing so by the pharmacy manager who filled the prescription. I reported the incidence and nothing was done. No investigation and not action taken to protect me.
I was sexually harassed by the pharmacy manager prior to his retaliation for the report regarding the misfill. I was not even able to report to corproate because at the same time, another employee in pharmacy (a tech) was having many problems with the pharamcy manager, he harassed, humiliated, retaliated and more on a daily basis. This was all reported to corporate and nothing was done. The employee was treated terrible by everyone for making the reports and caused others to remain silent after watching corporate and their lack of concern for her. They made her move store locations and nothing was done to the pharmacist who did all of this to her.
The pharmacy manager sexually harassed me as well as other employees prior to the pharmacy tech's problem and continued to get worse after nothing was done by corporate to help the tech who was clearly mistreated.
I was asked to participate in discrimination and after I refused and reported the incidence and spoke with my distric manager (Cosmetic district manager, Sandra Null) I was suspended without pay for 3 days along with another employee.
I, along with other employee's from my store have reported to the Missouri commission on human rights to try to get someone to make Walgreen's answer for some of what they have done.
After making all of my complaints known to corporate, loss prevention and the DM as well as the pharmacy DM. I was in the store when I overheard the pharmacy DM talking about me on his cell phone in the hallway of the bathroom in the store. He used my name and my friend's name and said I needed to be "shut down" and was trying to locate information about a personal friend of mine and told the person on the phone he was going to find her and tell her something that was not true to make me stop complaining.
I tried to report this and was only told to report it to Employee Relations, who I have already stated will not return my phone calls. I also reported that Employee relations has not asked any questions from me and has refused to investigate my situation at all. Still, I was referred back to them.
No one in the corporation will advocate for employees. Clearly, if you have a problem there is no one to help you, as an employee.
I am expected to return to work as if none of this has taken place. It is a very hostile working enviornment becuase anyone that makes a complaint is treated terrible by others, mainly corporate and it is impossible to do your job when they can simply choose not to speak to you stating it is not against the law.
When I reported the misfilled prescription, months later someone contacted me saying they were a third party administrator and wanted me to make an offer for settlement regarding the misfill. I did not even initiate this, they did. I did what they asked and since that, almost a year has gone by and no one seems to know how to get in touch with the party that contacted me and they never paid to settle the misfill.
Walgreen's does not even follow their own policy for filing a complaint if you are an employee and your hands are tied if your complaint about mistreatment does not fall under a "Protected Act" by the EEOC or Missour Commission On Human Rights.
This is a large corporation and it seems that they get away with everything limiting the help and support they offer to employees.
There are several of us here in Jefferson City, MO. That are in need of help trying to hold this company accountable. I believe employees should count and there should be some way to make this company accountable for what they do as well as what they don't. This is not a store issue, it is an issue with the corporation.
Anyone that may read this and can offer advise, I would greatly appreciate it. I have not even listed or included great detail in all that has happened. Please, we NEED HELP!!!
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