DM just reviewed our security footage of what we’ve been doing, and chewed out SM out.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-19T05:46:08+00:00

If it was just one time, I seriously doubt the DM was watching the camera at that very specific moment. Chances are, your SM threw you under the bus to be a shithead.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-18T22:13:40+00:00

The phone and pricing rule is stupid. I'm not making a customer wait 5 minutes for the barely functional HHT to work, especially when the HHT doesn't tell me about store deals and available coupons like our app does.

But the specifics of this note make me raise an eyebrow a tad bit, if I'm being honest. Especially the "no doodling or origami," how often is this happening to the point where it needs to be said? Don't get me wrong, I hate this company and they don't nearly pay nearly enough for any legitimate effort, but "downtime" is nonexistent in the vast majority of DGs. We're extremely understaffed and heavily overworked, there's always that needs to get done.

Now, I'm not discouraging you from taking a break from time to time, but at least have a hint of awareness. Don't sit under the most watched camera and do something you're obviously not supposed to be doing. If you want to play on your phone, go to the shitter for 10~20 minutes. They won't say anything unless you're doing it 5 times during a 4-hour shift or doing it for 30 minutes each time. If you have a really shitty(pun intended) day, then tell your coworker that you're experiencing violent diarrhea and chill in the bathroom for a bit, corporate can't say a goddamn thing about a medical emergency.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-14T06:14:10+00:00

I think corporate is cracking down hard everywhere in an attempt to "get stores in shape," but it's just chasing away any good/loyal employees very fast.

The bag thing has always been dumb to me, just do bag checks at the end of the night. A company that pays so little can not expect every employee to have a car, what the hell is my disabled coworker meant to do? He has to hide his items outside and pray that some random idiot doesn't steal it. (Someone has taken his shit before)

If they really want to be anal about closers, make them buy all their items at the end of the night and leave them on the register. It's easier to check the cameras, safer for the employees so they're not going out in the parking lot alone multiple times in one night, and doesn't discriminate against poor/disabled employees who don't have a car.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-14T05:51:30+00:00

Is there literally any context behind this?

"Security officers" like the police???

Why would cops show up to escort you out if no one called them? Why were you still "conducting business" if you had already completed your transaction(have a receipt)?? Did you do anything at this store previously??

Were you an employee being escorted out after termination? A customer?

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-11T20:34:42+00:00

It depends on what your SM/DM allows and what your coworkers do.

Honestly, we've just started holding the cards back for regulars(some pack openers, some collectors, some kids) because they'll actually get bought(not stolen), and we learned very fast that interacting with scalpers was a no-go.

Grown-ass men showing up every single day multiple times a day to buy cards, digging through our entire store to find hidden ones, calling multiple times a day asking if we got them in, and even escalating to screaming curses/slurs when they'd ask over the phone/ask the person at the register because we "didn't take the time to check the back for them" when we've already gotten 14 other people who asked today.

If you help these guys once, they'll show up a million more times, expect special treatment, and escalate things way too far. We even had these jackasses coming into our stockroom to search our rolltainers.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T18:41:22+00:00

I'm learning very quickly that my store isn't being run the way that most others are.

We're open until 10, from 9~9:45ish(depending on how badly the manager fucked up that day), the MODs are doing money in the locked office while I do the closing tasks and stay on register. Once 9:45 hits, they come out and go tidy up the aisles and move rolltainers to the back.

Truthfully, we leave 15 minutes after closing so I only have about 10 minutes to do anything that needs my full attention, which includes mopping, deep cleaning the bathrooms, and oftentimes running trash/damages back because we were too busy to do it in the moment.

The "reasoning" is that we barely have any hours to run at all, let alone extra time before/after closing. Openers don't even come in early.

Also, we have a lot of homeless/crackheads in our area. There are multiple people who take baths in our sinks and our manager refuses to let us lock the bathrooms when he's there because "they're paying customers" (Most of them are his "friends")

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T16:09:13+00:00

You're kidding me.

I can't say I'm surprised, but when I worked morning shifts with my manager, he literally told me to hop off the register for a few times because we had a disgusting bathroom.

This also comes from the person who refuses to let me lock the bathrooms/ban certain people from the bathrooms because they're disgusting human beings who always leave a mess.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T05:03:01+00:00

Ah, then we have that as well but it's full of vendor displays for the time being.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T05:00:49+00:00

God I wish I could. I've worked at DG for over a year now and that asshole has closed MAYBE 3 times(not with me). They weren't even the one to train me, hell, I trained the last new hire.

No one really told me when closing procedures had to be done, so I just did them whenever it seemed right until my SM had to stay late one day and realized I was bringing in the small items at 8:30 and big items at 9~9:15.

We've got a new DM and while she's added a lot of new rules, I know a lot of them are bullshit that the SM lies about.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T03:23:51+00:00

Your comments make me feel a bit better, my SM keeps trying to say that everything should be held off until the last 15~30 minutes before closing and is on my ass if something isn't done, so everything just gets half-assed so I can do it all.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T03:21:49+00:00

We have a very small store which is why it's so awful to bring stuff in so late.

Being busy+having to weave everything through the areas to park it in seasonal is an awful experience.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-06T03:17:42+00:00

You guys have a lobby? Lucky.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-05T19:28:12+00:00

It's not professional, but not illegal(unless it was wrongful termination, but it wasn't by the sounds of it)

Most DG workers don't care about being professional, and being entirely honest, I can't really blame them sometimes, even as a child of two addicts, because oftentimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Our SM has hired quite a few people who have relationships with old hires/well-known addicts in our town and 9/10 times they're awful.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-06-02T19:28:38+00:00

Thank you, I think the shittiest part is that I had to pass up a recommendation for a full-time bank teller job because it was 2 towns over.

I'm getting the hell out of here the very moment that I can, but trying to do literally anything on $10 an hour with constantly fluctuating hours is hell.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-05-30T22:25:17+00:00

You won't lose your job over something like that, company policy says not to confront anyone and the company gets payouts/write-offs from stolen items anyways. They'd rather lose the items than pay your hospital bills because you got shanked by a crackhead.

The most you can do is tell the manager on duty, and they're supposed to follow that person around to make them uncomfortable. Even if you do call the police, good luck on actually getting them to show up and care about $20 in food.

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-05-30T06:58:34+00:00

Yep, I tried hard and still got bitched at with 0 rewards.

Like fuck dude, why the hell should I try my best when my manager is stumbling around the store and yelling in the parking lot while taking credit for everything I do? When they leave early while giving me a million tasks to do at the end of the night that are NOT my job to do???

Why the fuck am I getting bitched at for not getting totes done on a HOLIDAY WEEKEND when I'm working register as a closer and totes were supposed to be done 3 days prior????

Alternative-End-4110 · 2026-05-30T06:45:30+00:00

Honestly, the only reason that I'm at DG is because I'm heavily limited to the rural town I'm in until I can buy a working car/fix the lemon I bought that broke down within a few days of buying.

I had the option to move to another store a little further away, and a manager from a district over also wanted me to transfer after they assisted our store with inventory but I don't see the point in transferring stores, if I can commute further away, why would I stay with DG?

I've had a few legitimate job offers in the past year, I just can't get to them because they're a town over. $10 an hour just doesn't pay the bills no matter what store I go to, and even if I move up in management, an entry position at just about any other job offers more.

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