High Expectations, Low Resources - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

3.0
May 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good friendships and support from fellow Store Managers. Good health insurance Family feel amongst staff (when properly and fully staffed)

Cons

Six day work week required(seriously in this day and age, what the hell) Not nearly enough employee hours to achieve the required results (leaving management to have to work 60+ hours to have a "good" store) Extremely hard to staff with hourly wage offered. Horrible work/life balance, especially when understaffed. Extremely high stress environment Forced to work alone in the store regularly due to lack of staffing hours and help

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 - Facilities are outdated, broken, and cannot support the volume.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