Nightmare on Dollar Street! - Assistant Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
Jul 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Weekly paychecks, lots of time off (unless you're a store manager). Learn multi-tasking to a totally new level! Build strong muscles hauling merchandise around the store by yourself!

Cons

Stores are undermanned to save money on salaries, leading to long lines and overworked employees, so they can pay for the 800 new stores annually. Our store pulls out almost a million and a half dollars in sales annually, up 10% from last year and they give us 10% less money for saleries then we got last year! Our store gets the company delivery truck and 48 hours later they want everything out on the shevles. Unfortunately, for the employees, 24 hours after the truck arrives the regional manager is calling store managers, to cut already sheduled employee work hours, so you got a cashier and manager alone trying to put out 15-20 rolltainers and run the store and service customers and update the sales dispays with this months planograms. Lately they said we have a freeze on buying store cleaning/support supplies. Toilet paper in the bathrooms? I dont think so! Our store manager shows up 45 minutes late for store sales meetings and 2-3 hours after they are scheduled to work without any explanation. Company policy wants you to count in a register and change drawer, fill out a five charts, put out 10 racks of merchandise out in front of the store, do a safety walk through and check cooler tempuratures in the 15 minutes prior to opening the store by yourself, that they want you on the clock. Inprocess multiple vendor deliveries, finish opening the store and service customers by yourself, read, reply and react to company email. Make sure the store stays clean without cleaning supplies, great for the bottom line! Sucks to be a manager here if you got to bring cleaning supplies and toilet paper from home tho....

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Cons

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