Awful all around - Cashier Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
1 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Sometimes encounter nice people. Sometimes have nice co-workers.

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.

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5.0
6 May 2026
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Pros

Great place to work at

Cons

Management wasn’t good all the time

1.0
23 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You have an opportunity to create good good relationships with your customers.

Cons

There is no work life balance. If you’re a store manager you’re expected to be there 24/7 if necessary. You’re also salary, so you’re paid for a flat 40 hours but required to schedule yourself for a minimum of 48 hours. No holiday pay, no overtime. You have access to two types of bonuses but they’re IF you qualify for them. You get little to no support from upper management and constantly told you’re not doing enough. They don’t care if you’re having staffing issues and still expect you to get the truck completely worked in 2 days and the store to be 100% recovered daily, even if you’re alone. Then they’ll either look for ways to write you up to terminate you or push you until you quit.

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