At Dollar General, the business model is exploitation on both sides of the counter. They take equally advantage of their low income customers as much as they do their employees.
I just got terminated but I plan to bring the hammer down on this company for poor work conditions and exploitation this company has paid out more than 38 million in employee related offenses
For anyone looking too get them back or sue violation tracker has all their lawsuits and what they paid out. Also for store managers stop working all those hours your title is the same as Todd under federal law executive anybody the makes over 23000 they make exempt. 6 days require 6 figure salary
As a fellow ex employee I can say alot about the exploitation. I worked a full year during the pandemic and then got fired because I asked for a raise.
I don't shop at Dollar General and this is one of the main reasons why I don't. I will not support companies that Survive by paying starvation wages to everyone except the CEO
Here's the thing about them is that they don't make a lot of money. Yeah let's 3 billion is a lot but in comparison to the profits of Walmart it's tiny.
yea I got hurt at Dollar General and they refuse to pay me why I'm off from injury of my neck and back of my head. I got hurt and they don't care, I'm sure soon I'm back to work they find away to fire me.
That's a great place to steal from though. The employees are either too busy to notice or too tired to give a shit. There's never been more than a few people in the store at a time. They have pretty much every item you'd find at a grocery store. If you're a women it's easiest because you ca stuff your purse, if you're a man wear cargo pants.
I have a dollar general down the street from where I live and where I work. The employees look miserable. The store is always a mess but I can understand why it’s like that. It’s unfortunate that employees are sometimes forced to run the store by themselves. You’re expected to ring people out, stock the shelves etc.. then when people are waiting to be cashed out they get super rude with the employees. It’s not that people don’t want to work. People want to be treated like human beings that have feelings.
If a lot more people did this, it would give Dollar General a wake up call. Close the store and walk out due to being used, over worked, bullied, lied to, under paid, etc. A STRIKE would do DG some good.
DG is very anti-union and would find a brand new staff (be it through rapid hiring or borrowing workers from other stores) within three days of a store closing due to a walk-out. In fact it took about a week for corporate to re-staff the store mentioned in this video.
@@senorverde09 so isdollar tree. Man. It's pathetic. I am one of the many that just left. Why should we have to just leave? Due to over exhaustion? And medical issues due to such?
Most of what is in Dollar General is not worth the money. I don't shop there because I won't aid and abet a skinflint who pays workers a little as possible while living high on the hog.
I quit Dollar General because I lost hours of work on my schedule. They can change it anytime and give barley any notice. Their was a mandatory meeting that i didn't know was mandatory until an hour before it started. You work tomorrow but you check the schedule again and they change it. I was promised once another person came in i could get a proper night shift. They got in and nothing happened. I worked at Sams Club and they treated me far better than Dollar General.
They are always so horribly understaffed. And it doesn't matter what you get it hired in to do you will be a cashier standing on hard concrete with no mat, you will be cleaning mopping sweeping stocking climbing ladders. And be prepared to do it in between customers if you have a break in the line which is hardly ever. He would have a lot happier employees if they weren't pushed so hard. Dollar general workers are probably some of the hardest working folks you will meet. And take notice when your friends go to work there versus a month down the line. Their whole attitude is going to be one of frustration and so miserably tired.
I am a former Dollar General employee. I was a key holder and I made $11 and hour....I opened and closed the store all alone and didn't get lunch breaks. I have bunch of pictures of the conditions of the store and the "break room". I wish I could sue them!!!!
This is why I refuse to give any company money between exploitation and as of these recent months, funding seditionists. Thankfully, there are always the one kind of company that actually cares in every shopping or business category. Dollar General is officially not one of them in my book!
Im not being paid a living wage there rn and am on medicaid. And they are hostile with employees. We also lose hours as retaliation when we stand up to management.
I believe it; I noticed this when I would go to their stores. Boxes all over the place, and the aisles were always quite crowded in those stores. And there was maybe two people in the store at times. I never recall ever seeing three staff in their store at one time.
I have heard from former DG managers that DG rarely fires employees, only for extreme violations. What they do is reduce or constantly change working hours until the employee quits. This reduces or negates the ability of the employees to collect unemployment. Also, most of the employees are part time. Managers are salaried, the rest are hourly. Some are 'key holders', they also open and close the stores as do the managers and asst mgrs. At one store nearby, the asst mgr has been working over 60 hrs a week do to the mgr quitting. The shelves were empty because the regular workers were getting their hours reduced to 8 to 10 hours per week. DG also also delivers at times not scheduled. The nearby store aisles are constantly partially blocked by carts containing stock that hasn't been shelved due to lack of staff hours. Their are times that only one employee is working, yet they are expected to stock and check out customers and clean the store. It is easy to see why DG has a high turnover of staff!
It's not just dollar stores. I work at Goodwill and the store manager can easily work 60 to 70 hours a week but is only paid for 40 since she's salaried.
I don’t have many options in my rural town, the best paying job is a factory paying 15 an hour but the conditions are bad, it’s physically hard work and it’s 90 degrees in the factory all the time.
Could this be why they're bringing in all the illegal aliens because they know the American people are going to rise up from all this corporate greed going on
Get an education work hard and then you will have earned the right to bring home that income! Once again, ppl ignore the fact that middle class americans invest thier savings for thier retirements! You sound ignorant regarding the business and financial sectors...
As a dollar general employee right now working another job, I have worked there for only a year. This job has brought me hell. My store manager is absolute shit to me and my co-workers. This week, a co-worker tested positive for Covid and the fact that I was exposed to that said co-worker, our manager does not give a fuck about that. She explains that “she has plans for Fourth of July” and wants me and that co-worker who tested positive for Covid to work the Fourth of July. I get it that we are down to only 5 employees but that is also a management issue and she has not even done background checks on people who did apply. The work environment is brutal. I started working when I was 18 and during the summer after my freshman year of college. I’m now 20 and the youngest worker there. I’m the only one being paid 10 an hour while my other co-workers are being paid $11.25 an hour. Never have I been more exhausted and more pissed at my store manager. I can go on a tangent but to the people who wish to work for dollar general: be ready for hell.
I deplore DG, they rip off the customers, different shelf prices, HIGHER PRICES AT THE REGISTERS!!! THEY STEAL FROM YOU, THE CUSTOMER, AND TREAT THE EMPLOYEES HORRIBLE
I know a woman who was given a "keyholder" position at DG about 4 or 5 years ago after the manager quit in disgust. She was a store manager in all but name...and paid 10 bucks an hour. Obviously that job didn't last long after that.
It fucking blows my mind how inflation has skyrocketed and yet wages are largely the same. Then you have those bone head conservatives who fucking think they shouldn't make a living wage because it's a low skill job. We truly are living in really strange times indeed.
Just had my first day today. Was post to their at 9. The manager was like I wasn't in uniform, but yet she never told me what to wear,so I had to go home a change. I started on a wed.i was basically a back up person. Dollar general horrible they really thought I was going to run the store for 9hr.
@@pamelabrown9484 this was about 5 years ago, I was depressed, I couldn’t afford food, couldn’t afford bulls, and I couldn’t buy a car, I had to pay upwards 20% of my paycheck to co workers to take and bring me and another 28% to taxes. After all that settled in I was bringing home 80-90$ a week, I was often overworked on days I was worked just so they can reduce hours on the clock, I had to deal with abuse from coworkers and customers(I was assaulted a few times), I had to even SHOP for customers somtimes. I’d work hard to recover shelves, while stocking, and being a cashier at the same often running the entire store alone while my manager who is the only other employee with me because they only work 2 at a time would me smoking or missing. I often had lines out the door because I was expected to do so much and the lines felt like they never moved because they only let 2 people work. They don’t let sales associates do returns or refunds or open the register it all requires s key so you will often have to leave that looooong as line with people walking out the door leaving carts and carts of stuff for you to put up, while trying to find the one person who has the key. They kept the hours so low so you couldn’t get company benefits, and they don’t offer any employee discounts. The whole time I worked for that company I was always told how I wasn’t fast enough or good enough, when I worked harder than most there, I was getting wrote up because I couldn’t get to all the stock and shelves because the register and refunds would get out of control. Even have to blow up balloons and tie strings on everyday because 12 people would come in with birthdays. The POS system would go down every single day from it being overloaded because it’s one register serving many customers, so you would be made to fix it while being on the phone with their technicians who are over seas and hard to understand and being yeld at by customers on how you can’t use the other 3 registers because there is no cash drawer inside them, and sadly enough you can’t just stock the shelves somtimes you have to go around the entire store Puting fresh new sales tags on entire sectionals of items. It’s to much for one person and it’s way to low of pay .
@@pamelabrown9484 Louisiana is one of five states that does not have a minimum wage and instead relies on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. House Bill 229, sponsored by Rep.Apr 29, 2022
I got hired on at 11.50 an hour, but thats still not even close to a living wage. I still have to budget down to the dollar and I live in a cheapo apartment, own my car with the cheapest insurance I could find, and work 50+ hours per week. Even sacrifice my day off just to make a few extra bucks. Corporate and managers demand that a 1700 piece truck goes from truck to floor in 48 hours, yet I am the ONLY employee that works the freight...alone. I delivered an ultimatum to them a few days ago, either give my at least 16 an hour, or I walk. I do have other employment offers pending, whom are willing to pay me that, or more. So, should they fail to meet that demand, then, I walk out that day and go to work for someone else who will pay me at least something I can live somewhat comfortably on.
My store has a sign on the wall that offers a 100$ reward to any tips about WORKERS shoplifting and said that most of shrink is caused by the workers lol.
@@dustind.291 that's what happens when you pay minimum wage and schedule people below 40 hours so they get zero benefits forever. They see you as an expendable tool to profit from temporarily and nothing more. Tons and tons of stories out there of DG employees who recently quit together because they had virtually no rights, couldn't get health insurance, no bonuses, no raises, no incentives and were fed up with waiting on management/corporate to fulfill broken promises.
No thats actually because the associates have to clean up after NASTY customers that come in to shit in a public bathroom and way too many people use it as a bathroom pit stop. People do really nasty stuff in stores and around and guess what, that nice underpaid register lady has to go and clean it. Kid throws up, parents practically run out of store leave the mess to register lady. So if they aren't letting customers use it i would look at your fellow shoppers for being nasty and abusing the bathroom privilege.
I was given asm despite not being able to drive, told them I couldn’t drive and that I was concerned that would effect me later-they told me it was fine and made me work basically 6 days a week for almost a year before demoting me right before Christmas bc “they didn’t know I couldn’t drive” /: I would’ve been fine waiting to get promoted but it really sucks to have such a high pay ripped from you outta nowhere.
I applied for LSA at a DG, told the hiring manager the same as you. I cannot drive due to medical reasons. Was told by the hiring manager it'd be a little hindrance, but no issue. Yeah, I am shocked too.
I just quit yesterday I was working full time key holder working all weekends running register and stocking there was times I was alone in the store for about 4hrs sometimes 5hrs and I was living pay check to pay check and alot of the times it was cold and we didn't have control over the the air conditioner and on top of that had to do alot of Manger work without manager pay closing and opening store was offered manager assistant that didn't happen and that was given to the managers brother in law
The income gap can't be mentioned fairly. I'm sure Jeff at Amazon makes a higher gap than that. I guess I'm also just lucky. My store has a good staff, district and regional look out for us, and my manager likes her job.
I've stopped shopping at doller general for the most part, if I go by a doller tree I'll stop there to avoid doller general.my local store is so bad u can't even get through the isle.hey Todd vasos,how bout paying your workers a living wage.YOUR SALES WILL GO DOWN, u can't sell a product if people can't get to the product because the stores isles are blocked,because of lack of help, because the CEO don't pay enough, and unlike other stores u expect workers to stock and run the register simultaneously.this is insane.so go ahead and keep on this course and watch other stores eat your lunch.im done with u.
@@jalamela1480 I understand that but how does one determine what a living wage is? People are always going on about getting paid a living wage but they never ever have any idea just what a living wage is. Do you? I'd love to hear it.
@@jalamela1480 Then how can you possibly know what is and is not a living wage? There is no formula because it depends on each and every person's life style and that can and does vary wildly in whatever size community you choose to look at. That's why there is no number the people who always bring up the "living wage" BS can point to. I might live in a $300 a month apartment so $15000 a year would do me nicely. The guy across the street has a $600 a month apartment so he'd need $30,000 to be able to have the same level of comfort as I might have. The living wage would be different in each case because of the way we choose to live. You can't expect an employer to take that into account when calculating what to pay his employees. It would be impossible to do so.
Wow I just started working for Dollar general in Louisiana and the same conditions or the same of what I've been hearing all over the United States wow no AC no phones underpaid not enough workers oh good grief I cannot believe no wonder when you get hired Dollar general speaks so much against a union
I feel sorry for you guys every time I go into this one down here I get pissed off they're making the employees do things that are above their means and they're asking people for things that are above their means they act like they're police
This is why I do all of my grocery shopping at supermarkets that have unions. I may be paying more, but at least I know the workers are making a living wage.
As a former dollar general employee I think they should close all dollar general,I worked through the year of 2018 to 2020 I only got a $.25 cent raised working 20ish hours a week not only that it I tried to stop theft 2 times and didn’t even get are you ok by my store manager,the only thing my store manager used to do and still do is stay inside the office don’t do nothing now that store is empty looking like a crack spot and she put me as not eligible for hire because I had to leave the job without 2 weeks notice due to family issues don’t get me wrong I like working at DG because I knew what to do once I got into work but my opinion is close all dollar general store
@@brians48now you dont get it i worked there for 2 years an half i stop theft which wasnt my part to stop and on top only $.25 cents raise so dont said that im complaing abiut that
@@josep7831 Stopping theft wasn't your job so why did you do it? Twice? I still say that a raise for only working 20 hours a week is pretty generous. You say you liked working there but you also say they should close all their stores and put all their employees out of a job. 143,000 people would be out of a job. That's what you want?
@@brians48now excatly thats what i want they should close dollar general and reopen with better management and employee that really wants to work ive been in alot of dollar general stores and all i see is lazy employee that dont eant to work and no help at all not even greeting the costumers
I provided a doctor's note and they rufused to accept and violated the HIPPA policy by threating my job and not alowing me to work untill I told them in detail why I went to the ER
I have boycotted shopping at Dollar General stores. I don’t support their business model and I think this company needs to really be shut down. There is no way that paying your employees very low and then not having enough staff in the first place is acceptable;
Sadly, Family Dollar is no different but ppl are afraid to speak out , mgrs working over 50+ hrs weekly and can't afford to find better. I even know of Family dollar employees living in their cars. Please do a video on Family Dollar
What's ridiculous is somebody with his appearance believes he should be taken seriously. I really don't consider a job at Dollar General a long term career path.
If *one* comes to my community? Haha. Bro. There's like 5 of them in a 6 mile radius from me. I bet you in an hour I could drive to atleast a dozen different dollar generals. They are everywhere.
I quit as a manager and this has to be the worst business that I have ever known. The next worse outfit is not even close. I would not hire anyone for more than $10 starting because it would not be approved. They push product into the store faster than it can be sold and it eventually fills up the back room until the full rolltainers, uboats, and totes creep out into the isles, never to be dealt with. Their shrink (theft or otherwise missing product) is usually somewhere between $20K and $148k a year per store. There are exceptions but very rare. They are hurting so bad for managers that I know some who were hired over the phone, site unseen. They still have to go through a background check but they get the green light on the phone interview. As long as they continue to stay ahead of their losses and keep the stores minimally staffed, they look at it as a win. Just look at their product line. Poor quality groceries, junk food, sodas, loads of China made product and tons of candy. Just what all their low income and poor people need. Wake up and stop spending what little bit you have in a business that could care less for you.
This country should be ashamed to celebrate labor day! People fought and died in this country for a 8 hour day 5 day work week that has been completely eroded. I don't shop amazon or Walmart and now it looks like the dollar stores will have to go!
We had a death at my old store. People ran with unpaid stuff everyday. Wasn’t allowed to schedule more than 2 people per shift. I physically fought thieves I worked 60 hrs a week but only got paid for 40
Just don't work at that place and f*** it. I wish I would have saw this video I would never have applied for it but luckily for me I found a better job and I quit Dollar general
You get what u pay for, but beware low quality =low sales=less profit, =b.k. eventually.best advice I can give ,u have a choice where u want to work, get a good education and forget low substandard wages.
And this is America,we can shop where we want to .you can shop at DG or you can shop at Aldi, roses, dollar tree, Walmart .I don't shop there for the most part .and will go out of my way to just avoid shopping there. Just left Aldi , clean store, price at register same as on shelf and cheaper, also in my conversations I understand they treat employees well and pay well.
Capitalism at it's best. The craziest thing is that most of the employees probably talk smack about socialism. Because they don't even know what socialism is. Which is literally defined as employee ownership.
DG Manager Store Life: -Open late, check short staff schedule. -Kid is at store with me due to no baby sitter can't afford daycare -Check tills in -Fix safe errors. - -Cig break outside. -Penny shopper drama. Cig break again. -Stopping Gift Card scam. -Lunch while on the clock. -Trip over 30 rolltainers. -Argue with Karen over expired Tide coupons while line backs up. -Decomission SCOs due to theft -Spotting shoplifter ready to yell due to Fox opinions on shoplifters outrank company policy and commenters agree on confronting them -Have to stay over due to no call no show. -Cig Break. -Frito Lay driver is a _hole -Tell Fresh Truck to let himself in. -Stay till close. -Shoplift Alarm goes off AGAIN. -Fight with DM on NextGen. -Double CIG BREAK -Boomer mad over WE ID for beer/cigs says laws are Democrat Communism. -Don't want to stand up to the BS due to being taught not to stand up to authority =Blames people complainging about prices on certain old white politician Argue with man with backpack. -Close go home do again tomorrow. GOD DG is awful. GET RID OF BILL RHODES.
It ain't capitalism problem Dollar General was never built for the retail worker it was built for the office worker CEO District manager. That's who it was built for
This isn’t capitalism. This is crony capitalism. I’d appreciate it if people like the one featured in this video…actually took the time to educate themself on the difference. Especially when he’s a visual representation of the luxuries of capitalism (I.E. fashion, private property, consumerism, excess consumption, etc). While I firmly believe places like this are destructive and even predatory…at the end of the day, it’s still a no skill/low skill job. Not a career. Management positions should be the only technical exception to ‘career’. Just because the job isn’t fun, it isn’t challenging, does not require continued development, etc etc - it does not magically mean that you get equal or close to the compensation those who do engage in these aspects , receive. By the way, a living wage…is typically around 55k and up a year. The same earnings (outside of major cities) that many skilled or educated workers make in the lower/mid rungs of the middle class. So does anyone truly believe that DH employees deserve to earn as much? Then if they do, what would your excuse be to the skilled or educated worker that makes the same…but provides a more valuable resource to the community and/or has a far more physically and mentally demanding (etc) job? Is the solution to pay them more than? But when you do that, you’ve now created an aspect of inflation. Because now that DG employee making 55k a year, will eventually become the same as when hey made 22k a year. As the dollar is worst less when the cost of manufacturing goods and distribution of said goods naturally increases too. Because everything requires people and money to create. Without exceeding in profits, the need to drive innovation and motivation, decreases. The risk no longer matches the reward. And humans by nature are creatures of habit. It’s a biological disadvantage for us to seek unnecessary difficulty - so why would we intentionally work harder if there was no direct benefit to ourselves? After all…the very guy proclaiming that the solution is this Marxist Utopia…clearly does not like partaking in difficult things that work towards the betterment of oneself, or others. Hence why he’s an adult that looks like a child, working at a dollar store. Rather than putting in the hard work that is required to get more out of himself,or to get more for those around him. It’s almost as if these people just want the fruits of others labor…without putting forth equal in return themselves. It’s almost as if they’re the ones who are greedy…not the very boogie man they create via the effigy of capitalism.
For real man these workers are dumb af. I work for an HVAC company and we are wanting people to work for us as apprentices for $20+ an hour but people don’t want to work they want shit handed to them.
Hard to take John Martin seriously when he seems to spend all his time commenting on every video to attack unions and workers. Wonder how he pays his bills?
I'm confused 🤔 BECAUSE SHE ACCEPTED THE TITLE FOR THE SALARY PAY.... IF YOU SET YOUR SCHEDULE...FOR YOUR EMPLOYEES TRUCK DAY ETC... NEVERMIND BUT EVERYONE TOOK THEIR CBL🤷 #💯'%JUSTSHIKA💪
All these people have issues. Their whole attitude is gimme gimme gimme. They knew what they were getting paid on their first day of work but still decided to work there. Of course now they cry that "I'm not getting paid enough and the CEO is getting paid way to much so I should be getting some of his pay" Flocking babies.
Addressing living wage...These positions are geared for kids as first jobs! They were never meant to support a family. Many of you complaining feel to recognize education and experience are what get you careers. You work your way up... many also ignore the fact that, many in the middle class rung have thier savings invested into these companies for thier retirement! You are missing the bigger picture! As far as these other infractions, those are breaking the labor laws.
@@standavison6517 not to mention that most kids cannot legally operate a lot of the equipment needed to do their jobs (compactors, balers, hand trucks, etc) because you need to be at least 18 before you can use them.
At Dollar General, the business model is exploitation on both sides of the counter. They take equally advantage of their low income customers as much as they do their employees.
That is definitely true and most people don’t know this
Don’t forget the truck drivers 😭 I am about to quit 🤦♂️
I just got terminated but I plan to bring the hammer down on this company for poor work conditions and exploitation this company has paid out more than 38 million in employee related offenses
For anyone looking too get them back or sue violation tracker has all their lawsuits and what they paid out. Also for store managers stop working all those hours your title is the same as Todd under federal law executive anybody the makes over 23000 they make exempt. 6 days require 6 figure salary
As a fellow ex employee I can say alot about the exploitation. I worked a full year during the pandemic and then got fired because I asked for a raise.
“Got fired because I asked for a raise” yeah sure buddy I bet that’s exactly what happened lol
@@ericmsandoval I mean. Go off hun. I think I would know why I got fired and got unemployment for so long.
Essential workers got royally screwed
@@ericmsandoval you've got your whole life to be a d***, why don't you take today off!
I worked for them on salary. Worst company I ever worked for.
I don't shop at Dollar General and this is one of the main reasons why I don't. I will not support companies that Survive by paying starvation wages to everyone except the CEO
That would be many companies...
If you have an Iphone then you do.
Here's the thing about them is that they don't make a lot of money. Yeah let's 3 billion is a lot but in comparison to the profits of Walmart it's tiny.
Then why buy vegetables and fruits
I will not shop at Dollar General because of their treatment of employees.
yea I got hurt at Dollar General and they refuse to pay me why I'm off from injury of my neck and back of my head. I got hurt and they don't care, I'm sure soon I'm back to work they find away to fire me.
@@scheirerjeanie1 don't go back. Find another job. And find a free lawyer.
@@scheirerjeanie1 you need to get an attorney! Worker's Comp is there for a reason! Don't back down.... Stand Up and Speak Up!
That's a great place to steal from though. The employees are either too busy to notice or too tired to give a shit. There's never been more than a few people in the store at a time. They have pretty much every item you'd find at a grocery store. If you're a women it's easiest because you ca stuff your purse, if you're a man wear cargo pants.
So, in the two years since this comment, have you shopped at one?
I have a dollar general down the street from where I live and where I work. The employees look miserable. The store is always a mess but I can understand why it’s like that. It’s unfortunate that employees are sometimes forced to run the store by themselves. You’re expected to ring people out, stock the shelves etc.. then when people are waiting to be cashed out they get super rude with the employees. It’s not that people don’t want to work. People want to be treated like human beings that have feelings.
If a lot more people did this, it would give Dollar General a wake up call. Close the store and walk out due to being used, over worked, bullied, lied to, under paid, etc. A STRIKE would do DG some good.
DG is very anti-union and would find a brand new staff (be it through rapid hiring or borrowing workers from other stores) within three days of a store closing due to a walk-out. In fact it took about a week for corporate to re-staff the store mentioned in this video.
You see, the thing is nobody is forced to work there. They know how much the job pays on day 1.
@@senorverde09 so isdollar tree. Man. It's pathetic. I am one of the many that just left. Why should we have to just leave? Due to over exhaustion? And medical issues due to such?
@@senorverde09 very very anti union. they have obvious propaganda in their training videos. its so blatant it made me fucking laugh.
Most of what is in Dollar General is not worth the money. I don't shop there because I won't aid and abet a skinflint who pays workers a little as possible while living high on the hog.
I quit Dollar General because I lost hours of work on my schedule. They can change it anytime and give barley any notice. Their was a mandatory meeting that i didn't know was mandatory until an hour before it started. You work tomorrow but you check the schedule again and they change it. I was promised once another person came in i could get a proper night shift. They got in and nothing happened. I worked at Sams Club and they treated me far better than Dollar General.
Dollar tree does that exact same thing. We lost so many people over that.
They are always so horribly understaffed. And it doesn't matter what you get it hired in to do you will be a cashier standing on hard concrete with no mat, you will be cleaning mopping sweeping stocking climbing ladders. And be prepared to do it in between customers if you have a break in the line which is hardly ever. He would have a lot happier employees if they weren't pushed so hard. Dollar general workers are probably some of the hardest working folks you will meet. And take notice when your friends go to work there versus a month down the line. Their whole attitude is going to be one of frustration and so miserably tired.
Same at dollar tree my friend. It's bs.
I am a former Dollar General employee. I was a key holder and I made $11 and hour....I opened and closed the store all alone and didn't get lunch breaks. I have bunch of pictures of the conditions of the store and the "break room". I wish I could sue them!!!!
This is why I refuse to give any company money between exploitation and as of these recent months, funding seditionists. Thankfully, there are always the one kind of company that actually cares in every shopping or business category. Dollar General is officially not one of them in my book!
Im not being paid a living wage there rn and am on medicaid. And they are hostile with employees. We also lose hours as retaliation when we stand up to management.
As an employee... this is ALL true.
My wife was a manager at DG and DT,....it was absolutely killing her,...opening to closing,....thank God she left 🙏
I believe it; I noticed this when I would go to their stores. Boxes all over the place, and the aisles were always quite crowded in those stores.
And there was maybe two people in the store at times. I never recall ever seeing three staff in their store at one time.
Watching this after seeing my paycheck and having a complete mental breakdown about my worth.
I feel your pain 😔
Right
I have heard from former DG managers that DG rarely fires employees, only for extreme violations. What they do is reduce or constantly change working hours until the employee quits. This reduces or negates the ability of the employees to collect unemployment. Also, most of the employees are part time. Managers are salaried, the rest are hourly. Some are 'key holders', they also open and close the stores as do the managers and asst mgrs. At one store nearby, the asst mgr has been working over 60 hrs a week do to the mgr quitting. The shelves were empty because the regular workers were getting their hours reduced to 8 to 10 hours per week. DG also also delivers at times not scheduled. The nearby store aisles are constantly partially blocked by carts containing stock that hasn't been shelved due to lack of staff hours. Their are times that only one employee is working, yet they are expected to stock and check out customers and clean the store. It is easy to see why DG has a high turnover of staff!
It's not just dollar stores. I work at Goodwill and the store manager can easily work 60 to 70 hours a week but is only paid for 40 since she's salaried.
I don’t have many options in my rural town, the best paying job is a factory paying 15 an hour but the conditions are bad, it’s physically hard work and it’s 90 degrees in the factory all the time.
This exploitation of employees and the 1000x disparity between their average income to that of the CEO of Dollar General is appalling.
Could this be why they're bringing in all the illegal aliens because they know the American people are going to rise up from all this corporate greed going on
Oh everything there sucks. I'm going on 4 years working there. I'm burned out
Get an education work hard and then you will have earned the right to bring home that income! Once again, ppl ignore the fact that middle class americans invest thier savings for thier retirements! You sound ignorant regarding the business and financial sectors...
As a dollar general employee right now working another job, I have worked there for only a year. This job has brought me hell. My store manager is absolute shit to me and my co-workers. This week, a co-worker tested positive for Covid and the fact that I was exposed to that said co-worker, our manager does not give a fuck about that. She explains that “she has plans for Fourth of July” and wants me and that co-worker who tested positive for Covid to work the Fourth of July. I get it that we are down to only 5 employees but that is also a management issue and she has not even done background checks on people who did apply. The work environment is brutal. I started working when I was 18 and during the summer after my freshman year of college. I’m now 20 and the youngest worker there. I’m the only one being paid 10 an hour while my other co-workers are being paid $11.25 an hour. Never have I been more exhausted and more pissed at my store manager. I can go on a tangent but to the people who wish to work for dollar general: be ready for hell.
Omg that was me at dollar tree. I was actually exposed. But another manager wasn't. They let him go for 2 weeks, and I had to work with it.
I wasn’t even aware there were this many Dollar General stores in the US
I deplore DG, they rip off the customers, different shelf prices, HIGHER PRICES AT THE REGISTERS!!! THEY STEAL FROM YOU, THE CUSTOMER, AND TREAT THE EMPLOYEES HORRIBLE
I know a woman who was given a "keyholder" position at DG about 4 or 5 years ago after the manager quit in disgust. She was a store manager in all but name...and paid 10 bucks an hour. Obviously that job didn't last long after that.
Of course, that job didn’t last long. In 2022, $10 an hour is basically a welfare wage.
@@travelingdude1621 In 2022, it's literally the bare minimum wage!
It fucking blows my mind how inflation has skyrocketed and yet wages are largely the same. Then you have those bone head conservatives who fucking think they shouldn't make a living wage because it's a low skill job. We truly are living in really strange times indeed.
Wasn’t $10/hr a welfare wage too in 2011?
That was me. At dollar tree .
It's the same for dollar tree. I'm on two weeks notice so thankfully my run is over.
16,000 dollars my ass. At this rate I'm going to be making $2400 this year. BEFORE TAXES
Just had my first day today. Was post to their at 9. The manager was like I wasn't in uniform, but yet she never told me what to wear,so I had to go home a change.
I started on a wed.i was basically a back up person. Dollar general horrible they really thought I was going to run the store for 9hr.
That does seem a bit much
I got paid 7.25$ an hour working here and was treated awful I’ll never go back
That is not even FEDERAL AND STATE minimum wage...That is hard to believe, they would not beable to get away with it! How long ago was that?
@@pamelabrown9484 this was about 5 years ago, I was depressed, I couldn’t afford food, couldn’t afford bulls, and I couldn’t buy a car, I had to pay upwards 20% of my paycheck to co workers to take and bring me and another 28% to taxes. After all that settled in I was bringing home 80-90$ a week, I was often overworked on days I was worked just so they can reduce hours on the clock, I had to deal with abuse from coworkers and customers(I was assaulted a few times), I had to even SHOP for customers somtimes. I’d work hard to recover shelves, while stocking, and being a cashier at the same often running the entire store alone while my manager who is the only other employee with me because they only work 2 at a time would me smoking or missing. I often had lines out the door because I was expected to do so much and the lines felt like they never moved because they only let 2 people work. They don’t let sales associates do returns or refunds or open the register it all requires s key so you will often have to leave that looooong as line with people walking out the door leaving carts and carts of stuff for you to put up, while trying to find the one person who has the key. They kept the hours so low so you couldn’t get company benefits, and they don’t offer any employee discounts. The whole time I worked for that company I was always told how I wasn’t fast enough or good enough, when I worked harder than most there, I was getting wrote up because I couldn’t get to all the stock and shelves because the register and refunds would get out of control. Even have to blow up balloons and tie strings on everyday because 12 people would come in with birthdays. The POS system would go down every single day from it being overloaded because it’s one register serving many customers, so you would be made to fix it while being on the phone with their technicians who are over seas and hard to understand and being yeld at by customers on how you can’t use the other 3 registers because there is no cash drawer inside them, and sadly enough you can’t just stock the shelves somtimes you have to go around the entire store Puting fresh new sales tags on entire sectionals of items. It’s to much for one person and it’s way to low of pay .
@@pamelabrown9484 Louisiana is one of five states that does not have a minimum wage and instead relies on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. House Bill 229, sponsored by Rep.Apr 29, 2022
I got hired on at 11.50 an hour, but thats still not even close to a living wage. I still have to budget down to the dollar and I live in a cheapo apartment, own my car with the cheapest insurance I could find, and work 50+ hours per week. Even sacrifice my day off just to make a few extra bucks. Corporate and managers demand that a 1700 piece truck goes from truck to floor in 48 hours, yet I am the ONLY employee that works the freight...alone. I delivered an ultimatum to them a few days ago, either give my at least 16 an hour, or I walk.
I do have other employment offers pending, whom are willing to pay me that, or more. So, should they fail to meet that demand, then, I walk out that day and go to work for someone else who will pay me at least something I can live somewhat comfortably on.
Dollar general cares about its customers so much that they won't even allow them to use the bathroom.
My store has a sign on the wall that offers a 100$ reward to any tips about WORKERS shoplifting and said that most of shrink is caused by the workers lol.
@@dustind.291 that's what happens when you pay minimum wage and schedule people below 40 hours so they get zero benefits forever. They see you as an expendable tool to profit from temporarily and nothing more. Tons and tons of stories out there of DG employees who recently quit together because they had virtually no rights, couldn't get health insurance, no bonuses, no raises, no incentives and were fed up with waiting on management/corporate to fulfill broken promises.
They don’t have no bathrooms?
If I had an bathroom emerfency I would find some secluded aisle to take a S***. Hopefully it’s not a diarrhea one.
No thats actually because the associates have to clean up after NASTY customers that come in to shit in a public bathroom and way too many people use it as a bathroom pit stop. People do really nasty stuff in stores and around and guess what, that nice underpaid register lady has to go and clean it. Kid throws up, parents practically run out of store leave the mess to register lady. So if they aren't letting customers use it i would look at your fellow shoppers for being nasty and abusing the bathroom privilege.
I was given asm despite not being able to drive, told them I couldn’t drive and that I was concerned that would effect me later-they told me it was fine and made me work basically 6 days a week for almost a year before demoting me right before Christmas bc “they didn’t know I couldn’t drive” /: I would’ve been fine waiting to get promoted but it really sucks to have such a high pay ripped from you outta nowhere.
I applied for LSA at a DG, told the hiring manager the same as you. I cannot drive due to medical reasons. Was told by the hiring manager it'd be a little hindrance, but no issue. Yeah, I am shocked too.
Can take title but not the pay. That’s illegal
What they usually do is open stores in rural and in poor areas far away from the Walmarts . That is why they do so good
I just quit yesterday I was working full time key holder working all weekends running register and stocking there was times I was alone in the store for about 4hrs sometimes 5hrs and I was living pay check to pay check and alot of the times it was cold and we didn't have control over the the air conditioner and on top of that had to do alot of Manger work without manager pay closing and opening store was offered manager assistant that didn't happen and that was given to the managers brother in law
The income gap can't be mentioned fairly. I'm sure Jeff at Amazon makes a higher gap than that.
I guess I'm also just lucky. My store has a good staff, district and regional look out for us, and my manager likes her job.
Yeah if your at a store not getting 1800 pieces or more a week doing 6000 dollars a day in sales and expected to put it all up in 2.5 days
Let's be honest retail period does not in a whole pay a living wage
That's sad to treat employees this way after such a large profit. ☹
i am disabled and my manager just told me " we can't have someone with your condition be a key holder" so i'm stuck
This is why I quit. Working long hours, and not being appreciated.
It's slavery
I've stopped shopping at doller general for the most part, if I go by a doller tree I'll stop there to avoid doller general.my local store is so bad u can't even get through the isle.hey Todd vasos,how bout paying your workers a living wage.YOUR SALES WILL GO DOWN, u can't sell a product if people can't get to the product because the stores isles are blocked,because of lack of help, because the CEO don't pay enough, and unlike other stores u expect workers to stock and run the register simultaneously.this is insane.so go ahead and keep on this course and watch other stores eat your lunch.im done with u.
Don’t work for anyone that doesn’t pay a living wage.
How much is a living wage?
@@brians48now depending on the state and city u live in. Obviously, the cost of living in San Francisco is different than a small town in Wyoming.
@@jalamela1480 I understand that but how does one determine what a living wage is? People are always going on about getting paid a living wage but they never ever have any idea just what a living wage is. Do you? I'd love to hear it.
@@brians48now i can’t generalize a specific number, but where do u live?
@@jalamela1480 Then how can you possibly know what is and is not a living wage? There is no formula because it depends on each and every person's life style and that can and does vary wildly in whatever size community you choose to look at. That's why there is no number the people who always bring up the "living wage" BS can point to. I might live in a $300 a month apartment so $15000 a year would do me nicely. The guy across the street has a $600 a month apartment so he'd need $30,000 to be able to have the same level of comfort as I might have. The living wage would be different in each case because of the way we choose to live. You can't expect an employer to take that into account when calculating what to pay his employees. It would be impossible to do so.
I've seen the way they treat their workers. No way would I work for them.
Wow I just started working for Dollar general in Louisiana and the same conditions or the same of what I've been hearing all over the United States wow no AC no phones underpaid not enough workers oh good grief I cannot believe no wonder when you get hired Dollar general speaks so much against a union
I feel sorry for you guys every time I go into this one down here I get pissed off they're making the employees do things that are above their means and they're asking people for things that are above their means they act like they're police
This is why I do all of my grocery shopping at supermarkets that have unions. I may be paying more, but at least I know the workers are making a living wage.
Kroger is a good choice.
The union bosses get money for protecting all the employees who do NOT work, while the real workers pick up the slack...Don't kid yourself!
As a former dollar general employee I think they should close all dollar general,I worked through the year of 2018 to 2020 I only got a $.25 cent raised working 20ish hours a week not only that it I tried to stop theft 2 times and didn’t even get are you ok by my store manager,the only thing my store manager used to do and still do is stay inside the office don’t do nothing now that store is empty looking like a crack spot and she put me as not eligible for hire because I had to leave the job without 2 weeks notice due to family issues don’t get me wrong I like working at DG because I knew what to do once I got into work but my opinion is close all dollar general store
You worked part time and still got a raise? And you are complaining about that?
@@brians48now you dont get it i worked there for 2 years an half i stop theft which wasnt my part to stop and on top only $.25 cents raise so dont said that im complaing abiut that
@@josep7831 Stopping theft wasn't your job so why did you do it? Twice? I still say that a raise for only working 20 hours a week is pretty generous. You say you liked working there but you also say they should close all their stores and put all their employees out of a job. 143,000 people would be out of a job. That's what you want?
@@brians48now excatly thats what i want they should close dollar general and reopen with better management and employee that really wants to work ive been in alot of dollar general stores and all i see is lazy employee that dont eant to work and no help at all not even greeting the costumers
@@josep7831 Why would you continue to spend money in their stores if you hate them so much?
I was an ex employee, the Assistant Manager wasn't good to me
I provided a doctor's note and they rufused to accept and violated the HIPPA policy by threating my job and not alowing me to work untill I told them in detail why I went to the ER
I have boycotted shopping at Dollar General stores. I don’t support their business model and I think this company needs to really be shut down.
There is no way that paying your employees very low and then not having enough staff in the first place is acceptable;
Sadly, Family Dollar is no different but ppl are afraid to speak out , mgrs working over 50+ hrs weekly and can't afford to find better. I even know of Family dollar employees living in their cars. Please do a video on Family Dollar
Save To Win
Our store closed on Christmas eve when all the workers quit that very day.
It’s not capitalism doing it. The problem is greed.
Capitalism promotes greed
Soooo, Target is paying 15 an hour and you are filling out an application for Dollar General??? Why???
What's ridiculous is somebody with his appearance believes he should be taken seriously. I really don't consider a job at Dollar General a long term career path.
If *one* comes to my community? Haha. Bro. There's like 5 of them in a 6 mile radius from me. I bet you in an hour I could drive to atleast a dozen different dollar generals. They are everywhere.
I quit as a manager and this has to be the worst business that I have ever known. The next worse outfit is not even close. I would not hire anyone for more than $10 starting because it would not be approved. They push product into the store faster than it can be sold and it eventually fills up the back room until the full rolltainers, uboats, and totes creep out into the isles, never to be dealt with. Their shrink (theft or otherwise missing product) is usually somewhere between $20K and $148k a year per store. There are exceptions but very rare. They are hurting so bad for managers that I know some who were hired over the phone, site unseen. They still have to go through a background check but they get the green light on the phone interview. As long as they continue to stay ahead of their losses and keep the stores minimally staffed, they look at it as a win. Just look at their product line. Poor quality groceries, junk food, sodas, loads of China made product and tons of candy. Just what all their low income and poor people need. Wake up and stop spending what little bit you have in a business that could care less for you.
They are building one a few miles away... and there is already one a few miles away.
That Dudes Hair Style is Legendary
This country should be ashamed to celebrate labor day! People fought and died in this country for a 8 hour day 5 day work week that has been completely eroded. I don't shop amazon or Walmart and now it looks like the dollar stores will have to go!
We had a death at my old store. People ran with unpaid stuff everyday. Wasn’t allowed to schedule more than 2 people per shift. I physically fought thieves I worked 60 hrs a week but only got paid for 40
I'm surprised to profit line was so little. With how many stores they got. They must have a massive amount of waste products
Just don't work at that place and f*** it. I wish I would have saw this video I would never have applied for it but luckily for me I found a better job and I quit Dollar general
You get what u pay for, but beware low quality =low sales=less profit, =b.k. eventually.best advice I can give ,u have a choice where u want to work, get a good education and forget low substandard wages.
These types of places suck for both the people who shop there and the people who work there.
14-15 hour days? Do you get paid overtime after 8 hours, and where was this?
Satan awaits for Walmart too....
LMBO
And this is America,we can shop where we want to .you can shop at DG or you can shop at Aldi, roses, dollar tree, Walmart .I don't shop there for the most part .and will go out of my way to just avoid shopping there. Just left Aldi , clean store, price at register same as on shelf and cheaper, also in my conversations I understand they treat employees well and pay well.
I do not shop at any dollar store period
Capitalism at it's best. The craziest thing is that most of the employees probably talk smack about socialism. Because they don't even know what socialism is. Which is literally defined as employee ownership.
I WAS TOLD I HAD TO WAIT TILL I WAS DONE WITH MY SHIFT TO GO TO THE ER
I quit today
Working there now still goin on
That’s why I steal at least one item everytime I go to one lmao
Truth
DG Manager Store Life:
-Open late, check short staff schedule.
-Kid is at store with me due to no baby sitter can't afford daycare
-Check tills in
-Fix safe errors. -
-Cig break outside.
-Penny shopper drama.
Cig break again.
-Stopping Gift Card scam.
-Lunch while on the clock.
-Trip over 30 rolltainers.
-Argue with Karen over expired Tide coupons while line backs up.
-Decomission SCOs due to theft
-Spotting shoplifter ready to yell due to Fox opinions on shoplifters outrank company policy and commenters agree on confronting them
-Have to stay over due to no call no show.
-Cig Break.
-Frito Lay driver is a _hole
-Tell Fresh Truck to let himself in.
-Stay till close.
-Shoplift Alarm goes off AGAIN.
-Fight with DM on NextGen.
-Double CIG BREAK
-Boomer mad over WE ID for beer/cigs says laws are Democrat Communism.
-Don't want to stand up to the BS due to being taught not to stand up to authority
=Blames people complainging about prices on certain old white politician
Argue with man with backpack.
-Close go home do again tomorrow.
GOD DG is awful. GET RID OF BILL RHODES.
You don't have to work at DG. Fyi. You can quit.
It ain't capitalism problem Dollar General was never built for the retail worker it was built for the office worker CEO District manager. That's who it was built for
horrible company at the top level
Unite, strike, create co-ops!
legal slavery
Just stop going there. These executives are disgusting!
Is dollar general same as dollar tree?
You work in a dollar store , doesn't the internet have better things to do
Yep that's how dollar general rolls
This isn’t capitalism. This is crony capitalism.
I’d appreciate it if people like the one featured in this video…actually took the time to educate themself on the difference.
Especially when he’s a visual representation of the luxuries of capitalism (I.E. fashion, private property, consumerism, excess consumption, etc).
While I firmly believe places like this are destructive and even predatory…at the end of the day, it’s still a no skill/low skill job.
Not a career.
Management positions should be the only technical exception to ‘career’.
Just because the job isn’t fun, it isn’t challenging, does not require continued development, etc etc - it does not magically mean that you get equal or close to the compensation those who do engage in these aspects , receive.
By the way, a living wage…is typically around 55k and up a year.
The same earnings (outside of major cities) that many skilled or educated workers make in the lower/mid rungs of the middle class.
So does anyone truly believe that DH employees deserve to earn as much?
Then if they do, what would your excuse be to the skilled or educated worker that makes the same…but provides a more valuable resource to the community and/or has a far more physically and mentally demanding (etc) job?
Is the solution to pay them more than?
But when you do that, you’ve now created an aspect of inflation.
Because now that DG employee making 55k a year, will eventually become the same as when hey made 22k a year.
As the dollar is worst less when the cost of manufacturing goods and distribution of said goods naturally increases too.
Because everything requires people and money to create.
Without exceeding in profits, the need to drive innovation and motivation, decreases.
The risk no longer matches the reward.
And humans by nature are creatures of habit.
It’s a biological disadvantage for us to seek unnecessary difficulty - so why would we intentionally work harder if there was no direct benefit to ourselves?
After all…the very guy proclaiming that the solution is this Marxist Utopia…clearly does not like partaking in difficult things that work towards the betterment of oneself, or others.
Hence why he’s an adult that looks like a child, working at a dollar store.
Rather than putting in the hard work that is required to get more out of himself,or to get more for those around him.
It’s almost as if these people just want the fruits of others labor…without putting forth equal in return themselves.
It’s almost as if they’re the ones who are greedy…not the very boogie man they create via the effigy of capitalism.
For real man these workers are dumb af. I work for an HVAC company and we are wanting people to work for us as apprentices for $20+ an hour but people don’t want to work they want shit handed to them.
The comments on this thread are absurd and woefully ignorant regarding business and finance!
Dollar tree is the same
I get paid 15.50 44 hrs. 6 team members at are store.
So you're saying that you are amongst one of the better Dollar generals?
Bet you that ceo or founder of DG living real nice 🤔
the whole ny does this to everyone it dont matter anymore
You got take care of it by Cort or talk to the manger or you boss
I build those
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It’s hard to take this dude seriously with his ponytail beard and his cotton candy looking hair.
Modern soycialist
Hard to take John Martin seriously when he seems to spend all his time commenting on every video to attack unions and workers. Wonder how he pays his bills?
@@kellyloganme he pays his bills with a skilled career not these retarted dollar General jobs
propaganda
That’s why you get a real job. Go to a trade school and license so you can get a decent salary.
I'm confused 🤔 BECAUSE SHE ACCEPTED THE TITLE FOR THE SALARY PAY....
IF YOU SET YOUR SCHEDULE...FOR YOUR EMPLOYEES TRUCK DAY ETC... NEVERMIND
BUT EVERYONE TOOK THEIR CBL🤷
#💯'%JUSTSHIKA💪
I wouldn't pay that dude with nasty looking hair at all. I'm surprised he got hired.
The Guy Berndt has mama ISSUES 🤣🤣🤣Beta male!
What are you, 14? Grow up dude.
All these people have issues. Their whole attitude is gimme gimme gimme. They knew what they were getting paid on their first day of work but still decided to work there. Of course now they cry that "I'm not getting paid enough and the CEO is getting paid way to much so I should be getting some of his pay" Flocking babies.
@@brians48now You knew that this was a pro-union channel, yet you still decided to make an ignorant anti-union comment?
@@JasonNZ42 they should learn a skill. These jobs aren’t meant and never will provide a living wage.
Addressing living wage...These positions are geared for kids as first jobs! They were never meant to support a family. Many of you complaining feel to recognize education and experience are what get you careers. You work your way up... many also ignore the fact that, many in the middle class rung have thier savings invested into these companies for thier retirement!
You are missing the bigger picture!
As far as these other infractions, those are breaking the labor laws.
Kids first jobs? I’ve never seen a kid working at dollar general! They can’t sell beer!!!!
@@standavison6517 point is that a halfway downie could do the job it’s not hard at all.
@@brianbrannanHVACTech how long did you work there to form your opinion?
@@standavison6517 not to mention that most kids cannot legally operate a lot of the equipment needed to do their jobs (compactors, balers, hand trucks, etc) because you need to be at least 18 before you can use them.
In my country, this kind of public shaming would NOT be tolerated. These people need to be quiet about their job.
Thankfully we in this country have a constitution that allows us free speech
@@standavison6517 yes. But soon things will change
Ugh hello...get a better job!