No weekends for walgreen's interns?

Started by josh6718
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josh6718

Pharmacist
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So I was talking to my roommate who works at walgreen's he said now that he's considered an intern, his schedule is set to 9-5 monday through friday (never any weekends) which I found pretty hard to believe. Anyone know if its all walgreen's stores that do this?
 
I only work weekdays and so do many of my classmates, pharmacies ranging from Safeway, Fred Meyer, Kaiser and Kmart. During the school year I plan on picking up weekend hours though.
 
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I'm in the summer intern program at Walgreens and I also work 9-5 Monday-Thursday, Fridays are "intern days" which mean we could be doing any number of things (but still counts as an 8 hours day). My pharmacy manager told me that he was actually told the he could not schedule me on weekends. But whatever, I like having a set schedule and weekends off 🙂
 
friend of mine works for CVS and he works mostly mon-fri, only about one sat and sunday a month. not even always the same weekend tho.
 
It depends on where you are. I worked for Wags last summer in the internship "program" and I was little more than fill-in staff. I worked nearly every weekend and most of my shifts were closing shifts.

This summer, I'm in the internship program of a competitor and work strict M-F 9-5 hours. I always work in the same pharmacy and have started to actually recognize some patient names. Night and day experiences.