Terrible Pay, unrealistic expectations - Sales Associate/Key Holder Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
1 Dec 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some coworkers were nice, locations was close to home, did enjoy knowing deals ahead of time tho

Cons

Terrible pay, they expect you to be on call for the fresh truck but dont pay you any extra for it OR you dont get paid if the truck happens to not be able to make its delivery on time, make you work on every single holiday except for Christmas day, nor do the hours get shortened on those days either. Only some holidays got holiday pay. No sick pay, no PTO, no vacation days, no actual benefical benefits. No employee discount (except like maybe 3 times a year where they decide to give you 30% off that is not combinable with any other coupons and only could be used once). Management would make up stupid rules or decide to enforce rules that only applied to certain people and only when they benefitted them. Make you buy your own uniforms then have the audacity to put up signs for uniforms you could buy The higher ups literally do not care to listen to anyone on any complaints or suggestions we had. They just came in, not knowing literally anything about how the store worked and then forced us to change everything--which ended up making everything more difficult for customers and employees.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

The job itself is easy. The cash register, stocking (especially the totes and dry truck) and cleaning are so simple however there are certain things that make it difficult, although the work itself is not (under the right circumstances.)

Cons

They never have enough people on shift so it’s always difficult to get things done. It seems like all the managers I know from the store I worked at and the surrounding ones are all so deep into drama it made me wonder if I was back in high school. Dry truck always seems to bring far too much and the stores are so little that overstock is a huge issue here. The reason I ultimately left was due to severe mistreatment and some safety concerns I had regarding some past experiences. I am very glad I left and I would not ever go back.

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