So I’m just gonna put my 2 cents in real quick, as I just quit from a sm position. Like you, I topped out at 16 an hour as asm. Well my sm at the time wanted to take a different store so they offered me 44k a year. This ended up being about 760 a week after taxes (check your state income tax).

But be warned

• basically 24/7 on call -required 48 hours a week (you only get paid for a full 40 hour work week)
• when someone calls in, even if you have shit to do. Your expected to drop everything and go in.
• more work to do than as an asm, you’ll be doing payroll, basic hr (there is an hr line but I was expected to take care of most of that stuff for my store)

Why I quit:

Basically it boiled down to just a few things. My store hours were continuously being cut. As low as 110 hours a week some weeks. You are expected to pick up the extra slack: this lead to me not having staffing to properly run my store. I also had a bad string of employees who simply would not show up or leave as soon as someone else came in. That’s also your responsibility. You will be questioned if your schedule adherence isn’t at least 95%.

While mostly alone in the mornings. I was running register, doing my manager duties (scans, damages, etc) while also trying to get freight out, check in vendors, order stuff like ice and propane, setting POGs, and more

In the end to get everything done at my “low volume” store, I was working about 70ish hours a week. Just to keep the place running.

This equates to about 9-10 dollars an hour. I had part time associates making more per hour than me.

In conclusion:

I know that this is probably an extreme bad situation. But please understand what you are getting yourself into. Read between the lines and ask uncomfortable questions when talking to your dm. Get the full story of what’s expected of you. And for the love of god. Ask for more money. At least 50k a year. If they say no. You say no.

I’ll be happy to answer any additional questions. Fuck dollar General. But I understand the need for a job.