Where do I start? First and foremost, DG does not give any store the payroll they need to adequately run any store. My own payroll was less than any manager was supposed to be put in for at the time of my promotion (2006), and I had no idea I had been screwed over in this way until 3 years later. At least 3 days a week, usually 4, I had to open the store by myself and work from 7:45 AM till 12:30 PM with no other employees there to help me. As a manager, how do you run a store when you are confined to the cash register for 4 and a half hours on more than half the days you work? They expect you to be able to keep the store stocked, recovered, and cleaned, do inventory counts two days a week, keep up with the actual management responsibilities (which there were very few because you are so micromanaged), and keep customers happy, but they don't give you the things you need to succeed in doing all of this, then they treat you like you don't do your job when you can't succeed. My store was a low volume store, and I understand that requires less payroll, and things will be different than a higher volume store, but the payroll they gave me to run this store was an absolute joke.
The wages they pay their hourly employees (Sales Associates, Lead Sales Associates, and Assistant Managers) is also a joke. My Assistant Manager made .25 cents an hour more than my LSA, and my LSA made .25 cents above minimum wage.
Dollar General is a company that expects the world out of their employees, but does not give any of their employees the tools to even give success a good shot, much less actually ever be able to succeed. I do not regret quitting with no notice and taking a job at less pay in any way, and I would NEVER recommend DG to anyone looking for a job
