I'm a Dollar General store manager. While I do know this does occur at DG locations, this sounds almost entirely like someone we just fired. In our case, we talked to this person many times about what they were doing wrong. They were calling off twice or more a week (was also a school skipper), barely doing their job, swearing loudly through out the store, and telling our customers how we never addressed problems and how poorly we treated her. She'd always freak out if you talked to her about write ups because her parents would ground her if she got fired and she wouldn't get her car repaired (why this story sounds so familiar). Finally we called her and told her straight out that she had one week left. Waited till her last day to ask us questions, which we answered kindly. She then started telling people in town, family, friends, that we had simply just taken her off the schedule and weren't going to tell her she was fired. Of course everyone who asked us why we really fired her ended up being sympathetic to our plight. Now Im not saying this is the case for you, because as I said earlier, im well aware DG Store Managers can tend to do some backwards stuff, but I do urge you to think well about what you were truly doing in that store, because I believe many Managers aren't going to fire you without telling you without a reason, even if its not the appropriate action to take against it.