Not worth it... - Assistant Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
Apr 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to gain retail knowledge and experience for a future position at another company. Obtain customer service experience and problem solving skills.

Cons

Upper management will not back you. Too much work with too few hours available. High shrink - responsibility falls on Store Manager regardless of lack of anti theft devices and/or cameras. Extremely high turnover rates.

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Pros

You have an opportunity to create good good relationships with your customers.

Cons

There is no work life balance. If you’re a store manager you’re expected to be there 24/7 if necessary. You’re also salary, so you’re paid for a flat 40 hours but required to schedule yourself for a minimum of 48 hours. No holiday pay, no overtime. You have access to two types of bonuses but they’re IF you qualify for them. You get little to no support from upper management and constantly told you’re not doing enough. They don’t care if you’re having staffing issues and still expect you to get the truck completely worked in 2 days and the store to be 100% recovered daily, even if you’re alone. Then they’ll either look for ways to write you up to terminate you or push you until you quit.

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