management dependent. - Assistant Manager Dollar General Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2010
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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

Work/Life Balance Can be Stressful

1.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

The job itself is easy. The cash register, stocking (especially the totes and dry truck) and cleaning are so simple however there are certain things that make it difficult, although the work itself is not (under the right circumstances.)

Cons

They never have enough people on shift so it’s always difficult to get things done. It seems like all the managers I know from the store I worked at and the surrounding ones are all so deep into drama it made me wonder if I was back in high school. Dry truck always seems to bring far too much and the stores are so little that overstock is a huge issue here. The reason I ultimately left was due to severe mistreatment and some safety concerns I had regarding some past experiences. I am very glad I left and I would not ever go back.

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