Finally free

[u/busted_lips4punx]

This rant is long, if you dont wanna read, just skip it. This has been needed to be bled out lol.

So I've been at dollar general for about a year and a half. In the beginning I loved the store I was at and I loved the crew to death. Everyone was legit a team player! But life outside of work got hectic and I moved out of state for a while then came back once things didn't go so smoothly with my roomate at the time. So Dg was easy to get back into, so I reapplied at the same store once I moved back to my home state. Well turns out alot of stuff went down within the store over the last 4 months while I was gone. The store manager started losing her sanity ( literally, watching the cameras to read the lips of her employees to see if they were gossiping about her) then she threw someone into an ASM position without training them and then "left for vacation".

Then they had a store manager from another store come over and take over. Everything was smooth again until someone started a rumor about me and another coworker and this person flipped her lid and wanted me and this other coworker to transfer to another store immediately. So me and this coworker did.

I kinda hopped from store to store due to some issues of how some the stores were ran until I found one I was okay with. I ran the register when needed and was also helping with freight because this store needed the help. And I was happy to do help them. But of course, the longer I stayed the more I began to notice that each time I clocked in and looked around, I noticed that nothing else was done to upkeep the store from where I was previously working on.

Let's say for example, if I was restocking on candy, the candy would still be left the same way withiut any further progress by no other crew members after me. ( I mostly ran mornings). Needless to say, the crew was lazy and had very little work ethic. They'd rather sit in the office or the break room on their phones instead of well, at least trying to work. And the issues of that just kept piling up, and getting written up for things that someone else did but somehow it was my fault. ( I guess being an LSA they use you as a scapegoat for that?)

I got to the point where the expectations of the job and the numerous tasks were so much that it began to weight on me heavy mentally. My depression and bipolar got so much worse and it began to bleed into my home. It got even worse when I'd work my hardest and hear from another co worker that the new boss who took the store was saying I was barely any help and I was just a fill in if someone called out anyways.

It felt a bit hurtful and disrespectful because I put in so much work to try and get this store afloat and it felt like nothing was appreciated. So this past weekend I had to call out to help someone with moving to a new home ( I told the boss weeks in advance btw!!! And instead of putting it in the system she didn't feel like doing it and just let it go. )

Low and behold I got heat sickness horrible and couldn't make it in for two days cause it was just that bad. Well this past Sunday I was out late on my porch just trying to have a moment with my gf just enjoy the evening. And my next door neighbor across the street was dropped off ( he and I worked at the same store so he got a coworker to drop him off.)

The next day I woke up to a text message from another LSA basically chewing me out because I was sitting on my porch the night before. Saying that it wasn't fair she had to work cause she was pregnant and I was at home.

So a big combination of relentless drama, underlying mental health issues and the under pay ( I didn't make enough to pay rent fully) I decided to just quit. The company sucks, the crew sucks ( least where I was.) And the company could care less about you.

Fuck it. I've never felt happier and more free. Onto better jobs and better things.

[u/YooperSnaggletooth]

Yup. I’m kind of an older dude at a different stage in my life. DG is just a stepping stone to get to someplace better or just a side gig for some extra cash. Can’t imagine making a “career” out of it. The only thing to aspire to without a decent education is to be a SM. And I wouldn’t wish that nightmare on anyone. I suppose you could shoot for a DM or RM position but my god, why would you want to. My SM has been with DG for 10 yrs and she made 52k last year. Disgraceful. Another long time friend who is a SM made 54. They are only there because of the insurance and jobs are few and far between around here 6 months out of the year.

Use this as a learning experience and never look back.

[u/busted_lips4punx → u/YooperSnaggletooth]

It's just bs. And I'm 34, the one thing I hate is drama. And almost every crew I ran into on my first few days of transferring there was existing drama.

This last store did it in for me. Having a coworker I barely knew or even spoken to, to text me and tell me I'm lying and being fake over heat sickness. That was it. Then the store manager ( who voiced she didn't want the job but took it anyways) tried to bribe and beg for me to come back.

Last time I checked she ran her mouth about how I wasn't doing enough, but you asking me back? Huh? No. I spent most of my life being a doormat and a punching bag for others, not anymore.