Dollar General Reviews

Cons

- The pay for the amount of work they expect you to do - Stores are given 120 hrs a week to split between 8 people and the wonder why stock isn’t being pushed - Multiple times throughout the week, employees are forced to work ALONE for a solid 5-6 hrs. If you can’t get stock out, check out customers, and manager an entire store AT THE SAME TIME, you will get talked about and that your “a lazy worker” - The cameras NEVER work and they refuse to add any on the outside of the store (which is why we get robbed so much) - It’s so unsafe, I’ve had many dangerous and unsettling experiences at my workplace and I was told “it happens everywhere, your fine” by management - NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU, it don’t matter how many years you been there, how hardworking you may be, the company does not care about you not one bit. Your literally just another clog in the money machine making sure they’re well fed while your overworked, overlooked, and miserable. - If you’re a manager? Forget ab it, your gonna basically LIVE at the store with no extra bonuses, acknowledgement, or anything, you’ll literally be a worker they can make do everything and then threaten you with losing your job if you don’t do it.. sounds fun right?

Cons

For $10.50 ish an hour your expected to be doing something the entire time if your not actively working with someone you should be stocking or doing something your not allowed to sit down your not allowed to snack or have a drink where customers can see they even changed my hours by minutes so i didnt get my break they made me work the register entierly alone because dg dosent hire enough people to have more then one person working up front so even tho itll be 9 at night youll be basically alone other then the keyholder or manager stocking or pulling ad or something or other out of earshot the customers are sometimes bloody awful i even had one threaten me they changed the schedule and never asked if i was ok with changes or even told me about sudden schedule changes getting the employee discount coupons were complex i never even ended up getting it they expect you to come in even if the roads arnt really in good conditions they would even yell at me for being late by a few minutes they insist on keeping a outside trashcan with a wide hole where people throw all kinds of nastyness and even whole bags of trash sometimes they also expect you to work when your sick

Cons

Incredibly terribly defined workload and criminally understaffed intentionally to bleed employee wages to lower prices. Management is mostly awful with people in positions they are not qualified for at all. Good work is rewarded with heavier workload disguised as "trust" Predatory promotion system designed to bleed more hours out of workers for less pay. Promotion in the work environment is a salary trap to double your workload for a slight if any increase in pay. Unfulfilling and incredibly hostile work environment that will make you feel underappreciated and exploited. Will require your entire life revolve around the job to even get anywhere near enough done to get a store afloat. Entire job culture revolves around a game of catch-up with deliveries and stocking and trying to fight over work hours due to there never being enough to staff the store. Benefits are non-existent and your job is never safe. Senior management cares about how much value for money your work is. It's all numbers and they could care less if they work you to the bone. The pay is awful and will never feel like you were rewarded fairly for your work unless you intentionally slack. Your "opportunities" come in the form of being more exploited per weekly basis.