No life - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
Jan 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They have good health insurance only in you FT. Yearly inventory bonus up to 1K if you have a good inventory from the pervious year. my pay was 60K salary.

Cons

Being a store manager, they expect you to have no life. Your supposed to live at that store. I went 2 months without a day off. Working doubles, my AMS was sent to another to help a store manager for covid. I asked for assistance from the DM. I was told to stick it out......"you go it". My ASM didn't show up to work, my DM called my phone to see if I could open the store and miss my doctors appointment. not caring I've been working 80hrs a week. and on my only day off I couldn't do it. Then the regional manager called me seeing what up like bro this is my ONLY off day am........I able to take care of my health or am I not able to because I'm a store manager? Another DM told me that only DMs can stop a truck from being delivered. My DM told me we can't.......smh......well ended up having two trucks in the parking lot waiting to get delivered smh we had NO room to receive 2 of the same shipment smh. DM will send traveling "ASM" only to favorite SM that need help when they get behind on shipment.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
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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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