What are perks and other benefits like at Dollar General?

Good benefits, good pay if working a lot of hours

Trailers in bad shape, at mercy of store staff when delivering. Waited for hours multiple times for them to open.

They're good to their employees and flexible

Very low pay. No benefits, employee discount only a few times per year.

1. It's retail management bootcamp if you're employed as one 2. I guess it's gotten me outside career opportunities but nothing to the degree I was looking for 3, My location's staff

1. You will be constantly underpaid 2. I worked for two locations regularly, my overtime pay was either backpaid (meaning put into the following week's payroll) or left out and permanently stolen from me 3. You will have little to no assistance from above just like SMs have mentioned about this company 4. You will burn yourself out. This is the most disturbing overwhelming truth about working in any management position for this corporation. So many days, I told my SM I was sick, and my shift was uncoverable. I went in because I knew he was indeed, right. I've went in about 3x+ and in one instance, even slept in the break room for an entire shift one time because of this... while my associate coworker allowed it. I was woken up and went out only when there was an issue or authorization, I could give the solution to. 5. Which brings me to my 5th con, understaffing. Do you have a complete disregard for people's lives and maybe even their families? Do you have grandiose thinking that YOURS is more important than other individuals? These are the kind of traits Dollar General is looking for in a lot of employees. I know my staff gave them a 2 star, but there's been a few comers and goers that earned this con for this company. 6. Remember what I stated about burnout? (Disclaimer: This is not meant to discriminatory or aggressive speech, instead, it is just a sad and illegal fact.) You get no true 30-minute uninterrupted break. So yeah, continuing about my coming in while sick workdays, there were times I'd just fall asleep in the office, WHILE sick, on my 30-minute UNINTERRUPTED break and lock the door in hopes of being left alone... just for it to be knocked by my associate on shift and to tell them I need to be left alone on break this time... then a customer asking me to come out. I repeat, again, while sick. In which I have no other choice but to come out and issue a refund since 2 people are scheduled. AND, as a matter of fact, only to come back home later that night and feel worse, subsequently breaking out into a horrible fever. But yeah, so, that's not my only stance on this. Employees all around the U.S will tell you that Dollar General's management regularly schedules their MODs and even their ASMs to be left alone sometimes for an entire shift. If it's not that, then you're scheduled with only ONE associate when you take your 30-minute uninterrupted break. As an example, I've personally closed my home store down alone TWICE. But even if you're scheduled with someone, they're sometimes not likely to be managers. So, if an certain authorization or problem persists such as returns like I said above a 90% of the time impatient customer needs, the associate has no other choice but to call you. And THEN, let's say they happened to be a manager, to which I've been scheduled with to the same degree, the registers will freeze because of new software the hardware can't keep up with heavy volume lines formulating, and then, yet again, the "MANAGER" on duty will ask you if you can just for a minute to clear it out and calm people down due to the public pressure of it. Been there done that, while I find it to be totally unnecessary to come back and feel obligated to when you're employed with this company (trust me it will happen to you eventually) there definitely is a humiliating aspect of it. Almost like its intentional. SO, yeah. The fact of the matter is there's no such thing as a 30-minute uninterrupted break if there are only two employees scheduled for a high-volume store with a myriad of tasks to complete. Companies like CVS make it work because they have two self checkouts. This company is only expected to harvest up future Department of Labor violations and claims from employees particularly managers because they are ripping them out (said to be a part of their "shrink" reduction solution. I will let all of you know right now looking for insight into this company that Dollar General will only pay attention to things when it involves money being lost. Blatantly ignoring the absurdity and impulsiveness of it all by ripping these things out due to shoplifting. When the general public is going to do what they want to do regardless. A machine being taken out won't help it. It's a temporary fix to a bigger problem they will cause. By the way, they accuse you of things before they accuse the shoplifter. I'm serious.) My location ripped ours out before I left (Guess the biggest reason I left!) 8. You will be treated like God and worth no more than a scrap sheet of paper simultaneously week by week depending on your availability. If you are desperate for money in respect to everyone's individual circumstances (Mine was me being a parent at 22 years old with a newborn and no support from me and my Girlfriend's side of our families. I don't judge anyone.) Dollar General ultimately loves you. You are royalty. You will be exploited like no other. They will shove the workload on you and reap the benefits if they're upper management because where do you think the idea comes from? And then for the ones in lower management, they likely just wanted a supervisory role to put on their resume to get somewhere bigger. That'd be fine! If they were to actually WORK in it. (In other words, most people become managers because they need hours and money. So?.... Am I just missing something here or? What?..) You will meet some of the most confusing and nicest kinds of people employed here. 9. AN ENTIRELY disrespectful lack of benefits. And useless ones that do exist. It's very sad how dirt cheap this company is. Very sad. 10. Which brings me to my last con, I will repeat it. UNDERPAID EVEN FOR STORE MANAGEMENT. If I could put that in red text as a warning to RUN, I would. If you've made it this far reading this review from top to bottom, tell me, what if I told you I did all of that for 7 months working $13 an hour? Would you still want to work there? There's an alarming amount of Dollar General employees that seem to get somehow 'trapped' in this company. Almost like they've forgotten how the whole job industry works entirely. Dollar General tried sinking it's claws into me and perhaps, for the rest of us who are former employees ourselves, the difference with us is that we acknowledge it for what it is. We don't ignore, rationalize, justify, condone, or make excuses for any immoral, unethical, or illegal behavior. We knew the entire time that it was unprofessional and what our gut wanted us to do. And it was to leave. BONUS: So, as for the people that wonder why Dollar General employees complain but still work for this company, that's the reason why. You are vulnerable if you have a family and have no other better option. You're vulnerable if you're young with no work experience. You're additionally one to be used if you're just simply passive and desperate over money. It's traumatizing. You never forget it. You never lose the skills you had to gain like you're the John Wick of retail (I'm serious. I swear my reflexes and ability to handle public pressure is not normal anymore). I know now how to calm down a mass crowd of people and gain respect from them for being the only one in the store with a backed-up line. In my area, I lead the store's overall satisfactory rate by 87% and gained more survey counts than the Self-Checkout did. And then... at the same time, you never forget what evil feels like when you're locked in an office with people disregarding your physical wellbeing. You never forget what the paycheck looks like after going through all of that in one week. And......you never forget not understanding where it went in the same time span. And then then that's where it's on to the next episode to continue. Unless you turn the cameras on themselves take their batteries out turn the lights off and run for your dear life. Thank anyone for reading.

Good pay, benefits, work environment, and good company

They really need to get better managements. I really liked that job but management wasn’t it’s best.

no overnights, convenient locations, thats about it

pay is terrible and no benefits for the most part

Good benefits, pto time, great management

They cut hours often last year, focus on pr than safty

Weekly pay, starting benefits, nothing more sadly since new supervision took over/ got moved around

I do have to say when I started it wasn’t bad with the supervision we had. It’s when the new ones came in it got worse. It is a very sexist work environment and they have favorites who get away with everything. Short hours one week not making over 30 hours. Forced to work overtime outside your availability or be fired the next week. Company expects you to never use the restroom unless your on your break. Some breaks are almost 4 hours apart but they want you to keep drinking water because the warehouse gets hot. There’s no room for growth because they keep changing how they allow you to cross train and push your back further and further seems like the only choice for growth is to get a new job because they are always over staff but somehow short staffed at the same time. Training get pushed around until your points accumulate and then you can no longer train anywhere else for months at a time. Can’t assist other departments or areas of your department because “it’s outside our job” and it messes up your rate but it affects others job functions and flow because half the staff that supports and moves pallets out the way are too busy elsewhere and we have to assist with there functions without any downtime because it doesn’t get approved because keep getting told it’s not in our job function but if we don’t do it, it slows our rate down not there’s. Management is very micromanaging towards the picker mod specifically but will never step up to help when we are behind but they sent our staff to other departments then make us work a mandatory Friday. Around holidays your forced to work wierd schedules which include working Friday and Sundays even though your hired to work Monday-Thursday only. Only two clock in the whole warehouse visible and you get written up for pulling your phone out to look at the time because your trying not to be late to break or you like to see how long your books take but it backfires and they issue you a canal write up even if it’s your first time doing it, your phone could have been locked and all you did was look at the time bug they don’t care. If your newer to the warehouse you have to park in the far lot because god forbid you park in the lot near the building and you have someone hollering at you telling you, that you took there spot or they leave passive aggressive notes on your windshield making you not want to park near anyone, HR doesn’t always have your back and doesn’t care about your safety even when threatened in the parking lot over a company owned parking spot that isnt marked for one specific person. Get everything in writing like an email. Very hard to have management, supervisors or HR to keep there words unless you have it in writing. They will back pedal and cover there own but and act like they never talked to you or told you something specific. Bathrooms usually nasty even shortly after being cleaned. Been here a year and they haven’t had toilet seat covers at all the entire time I’ve been here which is unsanitary. I’ve asked several times and still nothing months later. Sucks for women who have to sit to use the restroom.

They had Good insurance and benefits

Don't care about their employees

It paid my bills while I was in college.

They would schedule me 39 hours per week but not let me get the benefits of a full time employee.

Good perks good benefits good hours

it can be pretty hectic