Beware - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
Jul 15, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and bonuses are a plus, not much else.

Cons

Workload and daily tasks. Poor district management and leadership. Poor corporate management! Unrealistic expectations! Not enough payroll for staff, SM is expected to work 70+ hrs a week with only one day off a week if your lucky. District Manager will throw you under the bus if you don’t brownnose! Staff not allowed to have overtime so SM needs to cover. District manager plays favorites and is highly unprofessional, corporate has never worked in any store or from bottom up so they have no idea what goes on! Corporate is usually external hires that don’t know how it is!

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Cons

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1.0
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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 - Facilities are outdated, broken, and cannot support the volume.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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