It’s alright— it’s something to get your foot in the door - Key Holder Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Usually you get to work with chill people. Usually your customers are chill It is a good opportunity to climb and learn a ladder of corporate— just be careful the farther you go the less mistakes that lead to learning you can make. TLDR good opportunities for ladder and good coworker vibes

Cons

High workload for low pay. It’s kinda like slavery with some change thrown in there. I’ve been offered ASM many times but have refused it due to the mass amount of overload you get even as a Key. You’re usually running on a skeleton crew or skeleton hours— and there is no keeping good people so you get lazy and unhonest workers 90% of the time. (You get what you pay for honestly don’t blame them) We don’t get trained. We just kinda get CBLS and get thrown in. It’s not necessarily the supposed to be trainers fault— there’s too much to do for a person to be able to sit down and train another. TLDR Overworked, underpaid, under appreciated

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5.0
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Pros

supportive management team, and work environment.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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 - Facilities are outdated, broken, and cannot support the volume.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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