Old school, traditional retailer with culture that reflects it - Senior Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
Jun 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to transition between departments are fairly easily to obtain, but only below manager level. Covered parking. On-site cafeteria with decent food and excellent staff, though old and outdated dining area. Probably a great place to work if you want to sit in a low level job and work a flat schedule your whole career without having to learn new skills. On-site gym that is very cheap. On-site daycare for people with kids who care about that, though I'm told it is expensive.

Cons

Office located in Goodlettsville. Presence in the community is not near as strong as the company flaunts. Offices are outdated with old furniture and dirty carpet, have seen little to no renovation in what is now a 17 year old building. Horribly strong traditional office culture. Cubicles, closed off meeting spaces, unnecessarily long meetings and a staff unwilling to deter from legacy behavior. Lack of technology. Technologically advanced at DG SSC means you can use MS Excel skillfully, and most employees cannot. Simply not an innovative company, lead by grind-it-out style leadership. Favoritism toward employees with children. Little issue with someone constantly being out of office because of kid issues, but if you have no children leadership doesn't understand what you might possibly have to do except work. Big corporate. Slow to achieve anything. Current CEO has no presence at the office and has driven the degradation in company's culture.

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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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