Should I quit my new Dollar General job? Iām 1 week in and already thinking of quitting, and that has NEVER happened to me with a new job.
Quit job?
Yes
No
My reasoning for wanting to quit below the cut:
The store is a mess literally all the time, the sales floor is usually cluttered to some degree while the break room and backrooms look like a bomb went off inside.
Thereās only one bathroom for employees (they had to close off the customer bathrooms due to excessive shoplifting) and thereās only one key to the bathroom that regular employees are allowed to use (managers and key-holders have their own copies, because of course they do). This system just sucks in my opinion.
Thereās no door to the break room. Customers can deadass just walk past and see some underpaid shmuck crying over their microwaved burrito at any point, unless of course thereās a metric fuckton of boxes in the way, which seems fairly common so far.
Thereās no intercom system and no walkie talkies. If something happens, I have to scream at the top of my lungs for the manager, or drop everything to go lookin for them, unless I want to try calling their number and risking getting in trouble for using my phone on the job.
They are aggressively anti-union. One of the training videos was straight up anti-union propaganda, and it only took a quick search online to find evidence of DGās union busting efforts, some of which have been illegal.
Thereās only one computer we can clock in on, and itās the same computer we use for transactions, so youāre having to wait until the current transaction is done and/or make the next customer wait until youāre clocked in before they can get checked out. Itās awkward and just annoying as hell.
Apparently theyāre deadass on OSHAās naughty list of companies that are frequent offenders. Yikes.
Weāre supposed to talk and be social with customers, and my introverted ass doesnāt want to do that all the time, especially not for such dogshit wages. Honestly it just seems like a very extroverted job, and I can already feel the burnout setting in.
One of my coworkers is a teenager working 3 jobs, which is in and of itself a red flag in my opinion.
Looking online, all I can find is how terrible a company DG is to work for and how scummy their business practices are.
Honestly I can probably think of more, but I donāt feel like it right now.
Hereās the very few pros I can think of:
The bar is so fucking low, my manager deadass said she doesnāt care if I show up to work high as long as Iām not actively hitting a dab pen in the store or parking lot where someone could be a Karen about it. She literally said I can hit a dab pen on the clock so long as I do it hidden behind the storeās dumpster. Not planning on doing that, but it just goes to show how little they give a fuck.
The manager and key holder said theyāre willing to accommodate me however possible because most of their employees are teenagers at the moment (which also feels like a red flag ngl) and theyāre desperate to retain a functioning adult somehow.
Iām making about $12 an hour, which isnāt great where I live (definitely not enough to support oneself but I still live with my parents so thatās not a problem for me), but itās better than nothing.
Hope yāall donāt mind the unusual post, I just want some other opinions on the matter.
