Horrible company to work for - Assistant Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
15 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You can choose your own work schedule, take any time off that you want, and can move up with the company fairly quick.

Cons

The pay is horrible for all of the duties they expect. You are alone in the store a lot of the time. If you aren’t buddies with the DM you won’t get higher positions. They allow managers to hire people in at higher pay than people that have worked there for years make. The yearly raises are a joke. As a Store Manager, you are required to work 6 days a week. Employees never get to enjoy their days off because they’re constantly getting called in to work. The company keeps adding more duties, while not increasing the hours allotted in your weekly schedule. Plus during the pandemic, while every essential employee company was paying their employees hazard pay or bonuses, Dollar General slapped their employees in the face with a joke of 1 bonus for about $200 the whole pandemic. ASM’s are required do the just as much work as the SM (if not more) but the SM is the only one who receives quarterly bonuses.

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5.0
6 May 2026
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Pros

Great place to work at

Cons

Management wasn’t good all the time

1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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