Have had much better jobs and greater respect for my efforts. - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
Jul 11, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Not many to mention. I was lucky enough to have a full staff with the ability to perform all assigned duties but with limited budget hours.

Cons

BEWARE! You are hired in as a manager but the corporate management and regional management manages the store from outside of the assigned store, you are virtually another associate that is micro-managed. You do something good and never get recognition for it and you are hammered with what is not right. Constant pressure of managers forces you to put in very long hours. 2 weeks training, they pay for overnight stay the rest is out of pocket expense until those expenses are reinbursed. 6 weeks later you find out they misplaced or lost your expense report and require you to fill out another and obtain new meal receipts for the expense report. I resigned after 2 months with Dollar General. I understand they have a very high turn-over with management positions because of all the cons and very few pros.

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5.0
Mar 27, 2026
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Pros

It would help it it was easier and had instructions. It would help it bad number to call

Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There will always be Dollar General stores

Cons

- Leadership is unclear, unfocused, unwilling to provide information, or support. It is all about their ego, being "right", and the good ole boys club. - Leadership is very performative and do not actually care for their employees wellbeing. They are looking for robots without lives. - Feedback is considered wrong and if you do not 100% agree with everything they say, you will be treated as though you committed a crime. They are interested in yes men only and will find a way to push employees out regardless of the validity. - Work life balance does not exist and org policies only apply to those that they like. They've chased all of their top talent away with terrible changes and framed it as a perk we asked for. - Every conversation, speech, memo, and email is fake and performative. They do not live what they say. - They copy every other retailer, are stuck in the past, and DEI was quietly eliminated to avoid the backlash like Target. - Facilities are outdated, broken, and cannot support the volume. If you like disgusting shared spaces, fake perks, and talentless leaders, this place is for you.

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