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Don’t work yourself into a hole for no reason

I’ve been at Walgreens for about a year, and am going to be finding a new job as I’m finishing uni soon. My advice to new hires is don’t give 110%, or for that matter, even 100%. When I start a new job I always give it my all, no matter what. I sweat my ass off in the warehouse, in facing, covering registers, doing photo orders, give up my breaks to get the daily to do list done, etc. Now I reap the consequences months later. “Short handed? It’s fine OP (me) can do it!”, “Mop/sweep the store 30 minutes before close? OP can do it!”, “There’s 3 other people that aren’t doing anything, and OP is already busy with 3 different things, let’s get him to organize the warehouse by himself!”. Don’t set the expectations too high. Put in the bare minimum for the store to operate, they’ll…


I’ve been at Walgreens for about a year, and am going to be finding a new job as I’m finishing uni soon.

My advice to new hires is don’t give 110%, or for that matter, even 100%. When I start a new job I always give it my all, no matter what. I sweat my ass off in the warehouse, in facing, covering registers, doing photo orders, give up my breaks to get the daily to do list done, etc. Now I reap the consequences months later. “Short handed? It’s fine OP (me) can do it!”, “Mop/sweep the store 30 minutes before close? OP can do it!”, “There’s 3 other people that aren’t doing anything, and OP is already busy with 3 different things, let’s get him to organize the warehouse by himself!”.

Don’t set the expectations too high. Put in the bare minimum for the store to operate, they’ll be fine.

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