ok - Retail Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
May 22, 2012
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Pros

The insurance is good for fulltime employees.

Cons

They give you budgeted hours to use for your scheduling which I understand, but when they have numerous projects they want done in one weeks time it's very difficult to do when you have to work by yourself for 4-5 hours a day to stay in budget. I feel that they make the stress level way to high on managers. I can see why they don't keep managers for long periods of time. You get burned out on the job. They keep adding more and more tasks that they want done daily and weekly, but they don't want to give you hours to help make sure you can complete them. When your short handed your expected to just figure it out. I've worked 60-70 hrs over the last few weeks because of being short handed. I feel they don't pay managers enough to deal with all of this. I recently found out that Dollar Tree starts their managers out at $34000 a year. I find it difficult to have any kind of family life outside of work. Even on my day off I still have to deal with things at the store.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

The job itself is easy. The cash register, stocking (especially the totes and dry truck) and cleaning are so simple however there are certain things that make it difficult, although the work itself is not (under the right circumstances.)

Cons

They never have enough people on shift so it’s always difficult to get things done. It seems like all the managers I know from the store I worked at and the surrounding ones are all so deep into drama it made me wonder if I was back in high school. Dry truck always seems to bring far too much and the stores are so little that overstock is a huge issue here. The reason I ultimately left was due to severe mistreatment and some safety concerns I had regarding some past experiences. I am very glad I left and I would not ever go back.

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