It is the worst working environment. - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
30 Jan 2012
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Pros

Some of the customers are the reason why I like my job. My team members, we have a good relationship. As for anything else, I have nothing else, that I like.

Cons

Unrealistic goals. Treated like slaves, DMS stressed out by corporate, profits going up, yet, the employees never see any of it. Bonuses,that is a joke, they make the goals unachievable. Store managers working 65 to 80 hours a week. No work and life balance, going home and feeling like a zombie. Never seeing our families because of the workload that is brought upon us by the Dollar General. Cannot keep help because the only pay minimum wage, being in our stores 4 to 5 hours by ourselves because of no payroll. Stores having mad dashes to get them cleaned up for corporate visits, pulling people out of other stores and having that store shorthanded beacuase they are giving people to clean up somebody elves. Meanwhile, they see a perfect store, not a real one. I could go on and on.

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Pros

Reasonable Pay Safe Clean Great opportunities

Cons

Work/Life Balance Can be Stressful

2.0
4 July 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- The people I work with are amazing (not every DG is like that... in fact, few are.) - We are proud of our DG and we all work hard as a team to make sure our customers are happy and smiling. - I take pride in my customer service skills. I have people drive past 2-3 DGs just to come to mine, because they know my team and I will take care of them. - We have developed great relationships with the customers. I have even made some great friends. - You are never bored. There is always something to do. - The 401k has a decent match rate.

Cons

- There are not enough hours to get done with what DG Cooperate requires. - We work fast and hard, and we still cannot get done what they require - we just aren't allowed enough people and hours. - We all have great work ethic. We work very hard. We still cannot get it all done. We ask for more hours. We are usually denied. - Pay isn't good. It just isn't. - They say people are their priority, but they work their employees to the bone, and don't let them have help. - My boss probably evens out to making like $2/hour. Shes salary. She cares about her store. DG abuses the salary. What they ask her to do, she cannot physically get done, even if she divided herself into 3 people. I'd NEVER accept salary at DG. Never. - It is not a lazy problem or a scheduling problem. None of us are lazy. We are very hard workers. We push truck fast, keep customers happy. We were voted best store West of the Mississippi (we're in Oklahoma). We tell cooperate the negatives and what needs to change. They don't care and nothing ever changes.

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