required to work too many hours, not enough hours to give to employees or to run store properly. - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
15 Dec 2010
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Pros

Customers team environment small stores easy to work in depending on layout

Cons

DMs dont praise good work or even improved work, they only focus on the negatives. DMs treat managers different from store to store instead of equally. They take family issues as an excuse of duties not getting done in one store but not for another. RMs come in maybe once every few months and if on that first visit they dont like the store you better start looking for another job. Instead of them trying to help and find out whats going on, which in my store the day he had come in I had a call in and nobody would come in. I had a call that the RM would be in that day. I did my best to run register take care of customers and keep store cleaned up. Not good enough. First, he didnt get to my store until around 5pm after the day I had trying to get things done with nobody else in the store my shift was over and I left. RM didnt like that. I was terminated a month later.

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Cons

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1.0
2 July 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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