Are You Kidding Me? - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

3.0
Apr 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quick advancment, Benefits package, steady work, and leadership training

Cons

Managers are required to work over 50 hours a week 6 days a week (most of the time 60 to 70) no over time, holiday pay or sick days given. If your sick they don't care. Get to work! Not enough labor hours to complete task and keep up model store standards or in most cases get to model store standards. Managers spend more time working the store than they do managing the store, leading a team or customer service. Managers get leadership training but have no time to practice it or no team to apply it to. Time lines on pogs and seasonal sets, astablished by corp. level people, are unrealistic, unattainable and in some cases ridiculous. Corp. office does not take into consideration each individual stores current situations and circumstances when assigning deadlines on task. District Managers have to many stores in their district to be able to give quality leadership which means they are just as over worked as the store managers. Let me stress the most important thing here again "NOT ENOUGH LABOR HOURS FOR STORES TO RUN EFFECIENTLY"

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Pros

None. This is the worst company I've ever worked for. The pay is not commeasurate with the amount of work that you were expected to do. Dollar General runs their stores on skeleton crews and each person is expected to do the work of 3 to four people.

Cons

Everything. From dealing with incredibly rude customers, to the pay, to the workload and everything in between. Again, this is the worst company that I have ever worked for and I've definitely had my fair share of jobs in my lifetime.

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