management dependent. - Assistant Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Positive management leads to great camaraderie and goal achievements. Workload divisions are better now that all product deliveries to the stores are on pallets.

Cons

How your experiences will be is entirely determined by which manager you work with. In this, you should consider that Dollar General management is hired at cut-rate prices, and you'll have cut-rate people. I have overseen roughly 10+ management rotations over 4-5 different stores, and the rate of finding decent management is roughly 20%. The other 80% ended up stealing from the company, abusing workers, leaving management duties to subordinate staff, and playing heavily with favoritism. It was unpleasant to watch. I, fortunately, started out with a manager in that 20% positive category and moved up, not knowing how unique my situation was. After entering management level, I was sent around to help other stores come up to the level of ours.. and this is where the nightmares began. Heavy mismanagement is a growing trend amongst these stores, and the better you become, the more they want to send you to the worse stores to straighten them out, with other, less cooperative management. It is high stress, low pay, and management lacking.. as a final conclusion. I have since moved on to much better compensation.

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Reasonable Pay Safe Clean Great opportunities

Cons

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2.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

- Great breakfast and lunch options at the Ridge - Nice gym onsite with steam sauna - Unique location convenient to those who live in that area - Great people to work with, mostly

Cons

- Tired and outdated culture operating on extinct philosophies - Old leadership with no new ideas - Clock watching and micromanaging is the norm - Mandatory 5 days a week in office - Deplorable worklife, pay, and benefits for store level employees makes it difficult to find purpose in the comfort of your cubicle - Pay and benefits fall short compared to other corporate positions

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