Pros
Salary was decent considering it was the highest paying job I'd ever had, but it comparing to what most other retailers pay their store managers, it was pathetic.
Cons
Work/Life balance. You have to be willing to eat, breathe, and live Dollar General in order to get the job done well. Corporate is too cheap to give out enough payroll to have at least 2 people in the store at all times. They claim that they care about our safety so it's a policy that there always has to be 2 people to close at night, but in the mornings you're on your own. If the store is going to get robbed, it's going to be in the morning because all of the customers know we're by ourselves. In that sense, they don't care about their employees. In another sense, they don't care about the customers either because it's impossible to give decent customer service to everyone in the store when you're by yourself. You can't be in two places at once and you can't help more than one person at a time, plus the fact that you're on the register when someone else in the back of the store needs help finding something. I could go on for days but I'll stop there.