Family Dollar
Reviews and Complaints

Whatever modest. I found it as amusing as the actual complaints against corporations. Same old hourly back stabbings and clicks! THAT is why so many hourly workers remain just that... HOURLY!

LOL! In reading this thread it does appear that Brenda was calling [censored]bags rude and nasty. Although familydollarduchebags or whatever is harsh? To be honest at least his comments are direct and about the situation not a "who's my buddy" contest. Rough...yes, but the ganging up I see on some of these threads is how the employees also works at Family Dollar! LOL! Ironic.

Shut your face BrenDUH! Miss Millionaire I'm sure had half of HBA in her damn purse! Rude and nasty people?! YES...yes most customers are, but we are people too and do get a chance to leave work. Shocking? I always anticipate the moment I see one of my "###" customers off of the clock! Is theraputic justice! :))

She should've clocked out and beat her ###! I'm sure Miss Millionare war driving a multicolored ### tank!

Well as a manager of a Family Dollar, if you were acting suspicious and "lurking" around I would have assumed you were robbing us BLIND! So she followed you around the store "fronting" as it is called Miss Millionaire "highly doubt that line of ###!", but THAT is procedure if we suspect a theiving [censored]! We must see them steal to do anything about it! A .millionaire? LOL! Yeah, I'm sure a lot of millionaries shop at Family Dollar. You were trying to steal. Admit it! Nice...referring to one as a burgundy afro! Racist old bag you are! So wish you were at my store. I would've stalked you like a fly on ### too. Yes it is very irritating to put your junk away. You've been made and banned ###!

Family dollar is the worst company to work for in the entire world. Yes, they only care about their managers and DM's. I was recently terminated basically to protect the current manager. They could have watched the cameras to clear me all together but didn't want to clear me bc the current manager had just received a final job warning for letting a deposit sit in her car for a freaking week so I get fired to protect her. The district manager is always changing the procedures to fit her needs. Bad DM and poorly trained managers is all this company has to offer anyone.

I worked for Family Dollar for 3 years hired in as asst manager stepped down for rasing my grandbaby, hours got cut then cut some more all due to payroll cutting store managers hours.Not that Family Dollar is hurting the store I worked for was one of the many 1, 000, 000 dollar stores just in one district alone, they now how alot of managers that are in there until 3-4pm by thereselves everyday it seems like and they think this is SAFE. But the real reason I am here is because of what happened at the store I worked at DM came in done at estimated inventory where they go around count things in there head and put a figure down went and told the Manager things did not look good this was on a Wed.In which I disagree TO MANY BOXES IN BACK ROOM ALOT OF BLACK TOTES WITH PRODUCT IN THEM so she left, Manager called her Thur, and Friday was told by her DM on Friday no news is good news. So we unload truck, we go in on Sat start with freight again Manager leaves at noon. Then all h--l breaks loose Asst manager calls another store and was told they were getting ready to fire the Manager at our store. so in return he text DM and they go back and forth for a few then he(asst manger) comes to me and tells me that something bad is gonna happen. I am like dont put me in the middle of anything. So the phone rings and he brings me the store phone and says he wants me to answer it I do and I have never in my life been talked to so consending, demading manner that came from her and through her lips(DM) I was TOLD (now take it I am the cashier not the asst manager) tofind the manager and tell her to get to her store now she was on her way(DM) to this other store to straighten all this ### out. and she would be at our store as soon as possible.I said ok. God dont like ugly and she had no reason to talk to me the way she did never once apolgized she called back about 10 minutes later I was again given the phone I answered it and the DM said did you find the manager I said nomam. She proceeds to tell me in the same cosending manner ITS NOT YOUR JOB TO FIND HER I WILL. I should have never been asked to find the manager in the first place so I clock out at my time to get off work.and when I clocked out something inside me clicked and I made my mind up to never walk back in that store ever again for I will not be talked to like that. AND THE REAL KICKER was when my manager showed up to that store the DM AND THE (REPLACEMENT MANAGER WAS ALREADY IN THE STORE CLOCKED IN) so all along they knew ahead of time they were gonna fire her why BACKSTAB HER THE WAY THEY DONE I have been in managment for 6 years before ever coming to Family Dollar and I never once talked to or treated any of my employees the way I was treated Saturday. At least I know what BACKSTABBING LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE.Remember Family Dollar GOD DONT LIKE UGLY

I work for Family Dollar also I am a Store manager been with the company for 2 years ran 2 store in my distric for 6mo I and for the last 7 mo i've been only running my store well they fired my Dm in August and i was promished a lot of things from him on august 18th we got a new DM its only been 3 mo and i have been written up 3 times already and got 2 in one day their all for recovery this new DM is a Dick i know what is next the thing that bothers me is i gave 120% to Family dollar going to other stores to help out just last week on confrence call i was ask to got to another store to help out on frieght and i said to my DM i have no problem going but will the favor be returned well this week i wAS WRITTEN up twice like i said i feel he should of asked other store managers to come for one day and help me recovery my store to the way he wanted it this is ### thes new D?M is new and only trying to make a name for him self i have never in my 46 years of life have been talked to like that he is a skum a ### sucker i have found out working for this company by going out of your way for them it dosent pay out your DM only come into your and put your store down this is the worst compay to work for i wish people would boycot them just for one day it would kill them like its killing me

I would like to talk to you about this could i have the protected email please

Hello, I ran across this blog and was glad to see that people are trying to organize against family dollar. I live in florida and had a problem with my manager. I talked to the dm and didn't get the help I needed, I believe the dm just wanted to support the manager. So I contacted the RM and I recieved the results I desired, can't elaboate on the situation that much because I still work for family dollar and don't want to be fired. I will say though-blogs ilke this can be used to organize employees and create tactics, stratgies, to make managers treat employees better. For example say next wednesday all cashiers call in sick? And next truck day all stockers call out sick? If you understand what I mean. United we can fight back, but divided as they like to have us.. we don't have a leg to stand on. Lets hear some positive feed back on this please and I'll post some more Ideals

Talk to me Lori134 I have been treated the same as you. I had to take a demotion and pay cut to get out of the store where I was getting harrasted by my store manager. I still work for family dollar so I will say no more.

Corporate won't do squat. They protect the DM's and managers. It is the regular employees who are expendable.

biteme - you are a foul mouth troll who is not helping the Op or offering helpful constructive advice. All you are doing is trying to bully anyone who's opinion differs from your biased one and you are coming off as an uneducated ### who doesn't have the skills to debate or have a conversation. Like ILC said, grow up.

I worked at Family Dollar for right over 4 months. I left, because I contacted coorperate, human resouces, and my DM. Nobody would do anything. I was treated very poorly, and when I took a stand, they wanted to fire me for no reason. They put me on un-paid suspension, and they told me they will see about my complaints. That was like 2 weeks ago. Mary Smith

OMG! Get over it.

They do not have after hour staff at the Clarksville Family Dollar. It is a terrible store and town.

Maybe they were the 'after hours' staff ?

From the bits and pieces I have gotten out of the complaint, I agree that this situation most definately is NOT a racial issue! If a RM called a DM or SM "girl" in a heated arguement how exactly does this constitute racism?! Now she is asking for an attorney to call her? For what? I have to agree to an extent that I see some insubordination on her for a verbal fight with her RM verses calling his boss or corporate regarding their issue at hand. She did say she asked her RM where to turn in her car and laptop and had been forced into resigning due to walking off. THAT is considered resigning in most companies. Her boss is not a boyfriend to just bicker with then walk off. Racial issues do unfortunately sometimes come into play, but to use this as a "racial suit" is irrational and will go nowhere. He may be an ###. Most RM's tend to be with their employees or are disliked by them, but seriously? RACISM? Nope!

If you had a car, laptop, oh..you forgot to add a cell phone a ###ing company credit card ALL paid for by Family Dollar, you were obviously an overpaid District Manager who got lippy with your Regional Manager. So he called you "girl"? WTF? You know as well as I do that that was NOT a racist comment. He should've said "listen here you ignorant ###!" He WAS your boss! Glad there's a new job opening in upper management you [censored]!

So you expect the cashier to STOP waiting on customers and go look at a price for a tube of toothpaste? You are a ###.

If you have proof hire an attorney then sue him & the company for sexual harassment. If you reported it to the company & you have proof (certified letter/e-mail etc) and they've done nothing to address it then they are just as liable as the actor.

Keep escalating it. Don't stop. Take it as far as you need to.

Just find another job.

Your mgr should take care of this for you. If not call payroll and talk with them. you can call while your at home it doesn't have to be done at work.

Yep, they'd be the ones to talk to next.

Do you have an HR rep or corporate office you could ask?

Are you a full-time employee?

a tall big mann employer stealing at family dollar in 125th 4 ave miami fl i hate this store, thy rcism

Family Dollar is easily the most mind numbing and soul crushing place to work. Luckily, I escaped the hell that is low budget retail. As previously stated Family Dollar epitomizes poor management. They pride themselves in taking care of their customers while stabbing their employees in the back. I'm actually quite tempted to write an article on them and see if the local newspaper will run it. People need to be more aware of the way low budget retail really works. Often I would leave work so discouraged and fatigued only to get [censor]ed at the next day for not doing enough, not being perfect enough. However, when a human ### on our floor, or when our back room was infested with rodents, I dealt with it- not our DM. Also, the clientel leave something to be desired. For a job that offered no benefits, no time and a half (even on holidays), no compliments or praise, no discounts, no vacation, and no job perks, they sure expect a lot. I can see a documentary being made about Family Dollar much like the one on Wal Mart...it's only a matter of time!

I am an assistant manager at a Family Dollar and although you have "issues" about a specific employee, most customers are rude overbearing tight wads who walk in barking about where everything on their list is as we are attempting to ring up other customers. This company treats all of their employees like crap and we all are very underpaid. By the way, you pushing a shopping cart out of the way as you say it was more than likely you shoving out of anger to get your stuff on the counter before the next costomer had their items off. Their prices are cheap because they only work 2 employees at one shift period and you being an overbearing ### only makes our jobs even harder! Why don't you try to support your family on 8 bucks an hour and work all holidays? You are a typical descrental shopper who feels you can treat a retail employee any way you want to because we are on the clock. I hope you run into that woman you filed a complaint about off of the clock. You could have hurt someone shoving carts due to the small isles. You sound like one of our "alert" customers that we dread that goes through damaging products then demanding a discount. Do you realize how many ### like you we deal with on a daily basis and with NO BREAKS! Why don't you try that you old bag?!

This company need to change the way they treat customers and employees and the truth is that.
Who is gong to work for them.
Yes sure! people like them rude and mean.
I believe this is one of the worst place to work,
My recommendations to Forbes Magazine.

thank You for let us know what people is so rude on this stores.

Hey You're lucky you have a job in this economy-get over it!

My manager makes her assistants do the night shifts and she gets to do days and pick her days off. Ive been there over 2years and she just now started doing her 2 nights a week but after half way following policy she hears what someone else is doing and tells us shes going to do the same and will only be doing one night a week and one surveleince. Policy is managers do one week night and one weekend night. I dont know of any Family Dollar stores that the manager does. I read all these complaints and realize its not just my manager who treats some of her employees unfair.

FD don't pay us to take ppls to the bathroom. And we are told not to let them use it from the DM. Part of the reason is we have to stay in the stock room while your back they and we might be needed up front and can't go up to see what that problems is while your in the stock room. Can't leave anyone back there as most of the ppls will steal if they get a chance. Some of the stock rooms have the office in them and ppls try to break into them while their back using the bathroom. Makes it bad for everyone. I'd be happy to just let you go and use it yourself while i'm still doing my work.

The employees have nothing to do with the rules, if she acted like that though than that's simply unprofessional. As a Family Dollar employee I once walked a 3 year old back to the bathroom and my District Manager chewed me out for bring the little girl back.

by the way, unless she had on a name tag, i highly doubt her name was elizabeth. either it was a made up name, or the name of someone else that works there...

its family dollar, do you expect anything more? im sorry for your son but Shannon is right, many places wont let you use their restroom for insurance reasons (blockbuster is one i have experience with, with my kids). ok thanks anyway is all you can say.

ok she shouldnt have been rude or snotty but lots of places dont have public restrooms. Take him to a gas station or home if he needed to go so bad.

BJ, I agree with you completely! I have been an Assnt. Manager for Family Dollar for 6 mo. (in NC.) and I have experienced 99% to the T of what you did! My Manager in stills fear into us all on a constant basis. I have even caught her on a recorder being verbally abusive to me! I reported it to my DM who as far as I know, did nothing. I got the same pay promises as well as hours. I have been in retail & high end resort management for ten years, as well as owned two business. I had to fight to get $9:50 an hour, ( they started me at $7.50 an hour, not the 10 that I was promised.) but never see close to 40 hrs. as promised. I too have a family to support as well as paying child support. My boss tries every day to find a way to get me fired, but I have been able to stop it. But not with out personal cost. My nerves are shot. I am a resent cancer survivor. I see my doctor often. Since this job, I now have serious stomach issues. Because of the stress of the cancer and this job, my stomach is moving into my esophagus causing great pain and more weight loss. ( I am 6 ft. and weigh 127lbs. I was 148lbs.) My doctor is begging me to quit this job and says that if I do not and find a way to calm down that surgery on my stomach my be next. I am harassed by my boss every day. I get more calls from her on my cell than my wife, and you can bet my wife is not happy about that. I realized in the first two months that this was not going to work out let alone be able to support my family, so both my wife and I entered into a local college where we both got full scholarships to attend trade courses for jobs that will pay well and be a good carrier. I talked to both my DM & manager two months before class started, and advised them of my schedule. They agreed to work with me over it. now, just over a month before I graduate, my manager is threatening me that if I do not work the hours she says that our DM wants me fired! She said his words are, " I don't give a ### about his class'!" Understand that I am never late, nor do I miss any days no matter how tired or bad I feel. I hardly see my wife. With my boss trying to make things harder and harder on me everyday, I am having a hard time now keeping up with my class'. I am worried that I may not pass the 8 hour state test that I must take. I am almost 50 years old and I feel that this is my last chance to get back on my feet. Family Dollar is a terrible company to work for! They are abusive and have a slave mentality. The DM seems uncaring. He never returns my calls. I have gone to our reg. vice. pres. and not received any response. I have not even touched on how my employees get treated! They have all come to me for help and advice. All have expressed that they want to quit because of our boss. I have told them all that they must go to HR. and tell them, but I do not think that they will because they are afraid of our boss and what she will do. I also had the offer of taking a lesser position with a pay cut and cut in hours. I told her that I would not take it and that if our DM has something to say to me that he can come see me. I think that the only reason that I still have my job is that I hole damaging info on them. What a sad thing. Good luck to you.

great complain

Totally agree, I work for Family Dollar in the same region but different district. When I started as an Assistant Manager, I had 5 to 6 full time employees. I now have 2 part time employees and they work maybe 20 to 23 hours a week, and they expect way to much on so little staff, and your task at hand is enever ending.

totally agreed to your comment thanks for that

"I am 49 years old I am a Nurse", what does that have to do with anything. I know more people in this classification that are more vulgar then 16 year olds. Anyway, if you knew she worked here, and you knew that she had legal issues with your family, why didn't you just leave. Let me guess, there's no where else. Well it seems that every time a customer has a beef with a store, they threaten that they lost them as a customer, which 1, heck even 100, out of the amount of people cashed out during a year is nothing. Do you know ow much this company makes, my old store made an excess of 1.5 million a year alone. Anyway, they always threaten this, so apparently there is somewhere else they could go. If you have a problem with the store or the people in it, don't go there. It''s like, say she had a "Restraining order, if you came into the store, yo would have to leave or be in violation. You would either have to come in on a day you know she's not there, or go somewhere else.

See what I mean when I said, Family Dollar hire only rude and nasty people. What a shame.
The same kind of treatment here.

Probably wouldn't have happend if you just kept your mouth shut. That comment sounds condescending.

I was terminated for a fight that happened in the parking lot n all I did was try to break it up I wasn't even working that night it happend, I don't know what to do cuz I'm going to lose my apartment n plus it goes on my record of ever getting a job!

how long ago was this? My daughter was just sent home for not having a collar on her red shirt. She has opened and closed for them and works very LONG hrs for them every single day. I wonder if this is the same manager? I'll have to ask her. It has me so angry! She has worn that same shirt several times to work and was never warned about it at all. My daughter bends over backwards for them rarely getting to spend any quality time with her almost 2 year old son but was sent home on the spot cause of no collar? Ugh So pissed right now...

You need to speak to a Lawyer. If you were robbed at gun point, then fired for it, any Law Judge I know would gobble that up and allow a lawsuit an then sue the pants off of them. I would also recommend talking with the ACLU if you feel that there was "any" amount of discrimination in you firing.

on july 6, 2016 my moma and I went to the family dollar in lake park, ga to shop and as we enter the store my mom asked where was the shopping carts and the assistant manager and the associate kept talking as if we wasn't there.also as we finished shopping and approach the register they kept talking to each other and never greeted us until I asked if their was a number on the receipt to contact customer service about our visit. the store number is #03231.

Did you greet them? Or did interrupt them to ask where the carts were? Did they hear you? People always want to toss out the 'they were rude' card for stupid reasons.

in customer service u should always greet your customers upon entering and exiting the store

very unsatisfied with the visit

Familydolladuchebags, you are wrong the issue is that you have to go through and figure out if the minutes are used or not, I had do a return for serval of them in one day since the guy had a major issue with them... all you have to do is kept your paperwok and all the that and blackout the numbers. Now a days since the systems updated you can return phone cards, but we can not reprinted them, but I think we have to go through the system.

That is one big line of BS Sonja. I am a manager of a Family Dollar and we are to never and I mean never return a prepaid phone card under any circumstances period! If you have returned several cell phones and phone cards then you will be reprimanded eventually! Those are non returnable and it states that on the receipt and you doing so to
keep the customers happy" will ultimately have your ###! You need to be retrained and learn policies

Family Dollar will tell you they won't take a cell phone or card back but they will. If you keep insisting they will believe me I'm an assit and have too. All they do is call a # to make sure the time is still on the card. They then in return get the store credit back. Anyone that works for them knows this. One thing I can say about FD is they'll let you return just about anything. Sometimes you might have to insist on it but they'll do it. Their big thing is make them happy take care of it. I don't know how many tracfones I took back. They send the crap back to the company for credit. If you try to return something and the assit won't take it talk to the mgr. If that don't work tell them you want the # to the home office. Which they will give you the # to the DMs cell. Most the time they won't answer it but they will return the call when they get around to it.

WHY did you buy a card for a carrier with no service in your area? If you regularly use Alltel, the card will be fine as soon as you travel out of the area to wherever you came from. If you live in the area, you already know there is no Alltel service. What am I missing here? The store is not to blame for your ignorance.

To bad Howard Levine, CEO of Family Dollar, wouldn't appear on the show Undercover Boss. In all the messages he writes in his quarterly newsletter, it's all about the customers. Actually anything Family Dollar sends out is all about the customer; it's evident they couldn't give two ### about the average Family Dollar employee. And to the two ### knob- jockeys at top; I’m a college student who’s content with Family Dollar until I graduate, just like thousands of people who work for them whether they’re in college or not. It’s not a career; it’s a job… a really really ### job. To bad Family Dollar didn’t read these, because I could give them an earful on what needs to be changed.

Family Dollar only sells those Cards. It's just like Tracfone, GoPhone, and Net 10. They are only sell these items, they do not service them or control their service. they have to go by the manufacturer policies, if they say that a store cannot accept them back once paid for, then "All Sales are Final." Don't blame the store for 1. Something that is out of their hands, and 2. Your ignorance. Most returns are made by people that do not read the fine print, or understand a products specifications. Just because these do not service you area doesn't mean they shouldn't sell them, know what your buying. What if someone buys them to send as a gift to someone who is in the service area. Our Family Dollar sells a bunch of stuff that doesn't work around here, AT&T GoPhones for instance, no reception. do people buy them, rarely. Most people ask about them and we tell them, or most "already know" that the reception is crap, so no one really buys them, except as gifts or if they are passing through.

well i worked as a cashier for along time and never have i been accused of stealing ! well i walked out on my shift because my manger had asked me to buy some pot and she left me on the register by myself and the gm called so i answerd the phone well i went to get the manger on duty and she was in the parking lot smoking pot so i left i jumped n my car and left well now there say n i stole 667$ at first then it was 618 nopw its 600 they didnt call me from the store the gm txt me from her phone say n i dropped money on the floor then i picked it up and went around the corner then i put it in my pocket the lock box was never locked the safe was never locked this is seriouse some please help me figure out wats going on ! and the LP calls telling me to admitt it and pay it back and im nt pay n it back cause i no i never stole 600$ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000187928998

I'm agree Family Dollar is not a good business ethic practice place.

If you are a good person most likely you won't last, because what you have to do is against to you believes and ethic practices.

And the price you have to paid for is not worth it, the salary is very low in comparison to other stores.

Agreed. I see that

wooooo I believe it, I see such treatment at this stores here

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I agree Family dollar DOES NOT care about the employee's or the customers.

I was a store manager for family dollar for two years at two stores, we had 3 district managers in 6 months, one was sent to another district, one quit and told me it was because of the way family dollar treated their employee's. and the new one is to my knowledge still there even though he has caused family dollar to be sued by employee's for false imprisonment and wrongful termination.

I worked for them for two years as a store manager and 6 months before that as an assistant manager. the first store i took over i had no complaints from the DM and glowing employee reviews the second store i took over had 6 managers in a year and the inventory was in shambles from theft by employee's and shoplifters.

i was told the day i took the store that there was one employee who was a thief and i needed to fire her. (i thought if they knew she was a thief why did they leave firing to the new manager and not fire her when they caught her stealing.?)

when i took the store it was october which was past due for the halloween to displayed none of it was displayed, and it was now time to start displaying thanksgiving and christmas products. all of the halloween, christmas and thanksgiving were in the stock room still.

( i got chewed out the first week i was there for not getting halloween, thanksgiving and christmas out on the shelf...the stacks of these products were huge and new room had to be made for these products on the shelf.)

the first ditrict mgr left after my second week being manager.
the new district came in and had a great attitude! he immediately started trying to train me as a store mgr since i recieved no training previously.

went well, then the new mgr quit about 5 months later telling me he couldnt stay as long as family dollar treated the employee's the way they did. they even encouraged him to treat the employee's the same way and he refused to do so.

after he left the new district took over, #3...
my store had been getting grades of a's and b's with the two prior district mgrs. and with this new 3rd DM i suddenly started getting f's.

Sales were higher than they had ever been after i took the store and i even beat some of the million dollar stores in sales a few times.

yet my store grades were all failing. my store was always clean fronted and stocked.

the new DM came in one day to do an audit and said my store was 19k short on inventory for that month, ( i knew this was impossible...for that to have happened all the employee's would have had to steal by the cart load daily...)
he wrote me up and i contacted loss prevention and they reviewed the audit and found the DM had made a mistake in his calculations. they tore up that write up and took it off my record.

the next month the DM decided to do another store audit, he said then that i was 2, 600.00 short in inventory for the month and wrote me up again.
i explained that the shortage was in truck shortage..
The trucks deliver stock once a week at that store and were short in their deliveries and i reported it properly and documented everything.
and had the proof. it added up to 2, 517.00

the rest of the 2600.00 shortage was well documented in the company computer as empty packages i had found in the store due to suspected shoplifting.
still the DM wrote me up for it.

the next month the DM came back the same thing occured.
i had more documentation showing new shortages on the trucks.
(both myself and my assistant kept seperate counts of inventory as it was unloaded and we came up with the same numbers and shortages.)

I was written up again and terminated.

I filed complaints with H.R. and the regional mgr called me. it was then i found out i was supposed to have taken managers assessment tests, and those were done by the first dm without my knowledge.

the first dm is still employed by family dollar and so is the last.

yet good employee's who care about their store are terminated because family dollar fails to care about their employee's and allows it's DM's to walk all over good people.

the second store i was mgr for 6 months and they put all of the theft and shrink from the previous 5 mgrs who ran it in that year
on me.

Just be careful what you write on the internet, or anywhere for that matter. If you use names, places, dates you could be found libel if the other party feels it is damaging to their reputation. You could also be accussed of slander if you are saying things that could be interpretted as damaging the other parties reputation, character, etc. Also, as someone pointed out when you wrote about causing physical harm or the intent that could be considered means and motive if you carry out that act. Which is also assualt and battery. I'm not sure how your state handles those charges, but I'm pretty sure it would involve some jail time. So be careful.

I would have to agree with this Greg Mattson, I was employed with a newly built Family Dollar store up until yesterday 02/03/2011 when I resigned under pressure. I have witnessed this done to a worker at our store, you see back in November 2010 I was interviewed by the District Manager of region 31 for a Store Manager position in Sisseton, So. Dak, in which I refused because I applied for Assistant Store Manager. When she had picked the Store Manager for our location I was called in for a job offer as Assistant Store Manager with the rate of pay being $ 10.00 P/H, so I went to meet with the District Manager and Store Manager I agreed to the position, later that evening the Store Manager had called me at my home and advised me I would be the First Assistant Store Manager for more money, just I couldnt tell no one. So I accepted it, I and another Assistant Store Manager were sent to Assistant Training for a few weeks until the store was to have it's grand opening, once we completed our training and the store opened I came to work and was told by the other Assistant she was picked as First Assistant Store Manager when it was to my knowledge I was already placed in this position by the Store Manager over the phone.

So when I questioned him about it, he was at first in denial, than his excuse was that she had 12 years grocery-retail experience as a cashier, front end supervisor, book keeper, I quickly reminded him of what he said over the phone to me and that I had recently worked for a WalMart Supercenter as a Department Manager in the Meat/Seafood Dept. and left WalMart as a Human Resource Manager/Training Coordinator/Benefits Specialist. He said no more about it and she was placed as First Assistant, in the mean time I noticed my pay stubs still stating I was making $ 9.50 P/H and not the $ 10 P/H we agreed upon, when i approached him again he informed me that the District Manager approved our store with 11 employees the largest amount of workers in the district to promote a Customer Service Assistant to be utilized as a 3rd Assistant Manager, so when she was promoted she was to make $ 9.50 P/H and she was making $ 8.00 P/H and performing all the duties of an Assistant Manager and this continued on up until she resigned 01/28/2011, she had called the DM several times about her pay which was never adjusted and when she asked about her back pay the DM told her she wouldn't see it.

When I was first interviewed for this position I was lied to by both the Store Manager and DM about my title, pay and they both told me us Assistants would never fall under 40 hours a week, gradually my hours every week would drop by one hour than 3 than 4. In the meantime the First Assistant would stay at 39.50 hours a week, I was assigned to be the night Manager-On-Duty and the Store Manager fired one of my workers for having 3 SAER reports and another one for repeative Tardiness, leaving me one employee on nights, plus i was wrote up for not writing the one worker up for tardiness in which she was only late twice and it was during snow storms. Well with just two of us on nights we closed the store at 9p.m., I would declare myself out, count my drawer down and drop my pickup than do the same with my one cashier, after he was done, i would assign him recovery/facing duties plus sweeping mopping and bathrooms, because I still had to count petty cash and the nightly deposit, we had to be out of there by 9:30 P.M. or it was a write-up for both of us, the SM always told me to start recovery 4 hours before closing, however that was hard to do when I only had one employee at Night and when he was off I was by myself, so one night I missed the deposit by $500 and the bank called the SM the same day the DM showed up for a store visit, The DM had told the SM to suspend and terminate me twice before for petty stuff that wasnt a big random deal, well this time the DM came when I was on days off, upon my return to work I clocked in and the cashier told me the SM and First Assistant needed to see me in the office so I went there and walked in low and behold the SM had 3 write-ups waiting for me, he advised me the DM wanted me fired on the spot, however he was giving me three options 1. Take a demotion to a cashier for 15 hours a week (the least amount of hours of any cashier) 2. Resign from my job or 3. be terminated, i took all my keys off my retractor threw them on his desk and said I resign effective immediately, he asked if i wanted to sign or have copies of the write-ups I stated no and said adios and left the office without even clocking out.

In my opinion in the two and half months of working for Family Dollar I have seen retail at it's worst, I have seen them take advantage of their workers, no appreciation or compassion what so ever, they encourage cut throat behaviors and like it when Assistant Store Managers back stabbed one another, there is no humanity making employees unload a truck of frieght in frigid cold temperatures, not excusing family emergencies and writing employees up over senseless stuff. Family Dollar is not Family Oriented they could care less about their workers or their families for that matter the encourage slave driving tactics, threaten and instil fear in employees, they are all about the money, everyone is replaceable in their eyes, no matter how good of an employee or manager is, I know first hand that 3 North Dakota Stores had all 3 Store Managers and All Assistants walk off the job only a few weeks apart, now tell me the reason why and how come they cannot fill these positions. I need my job i have a family to support too, but not at 15 hours a week and you really think they care, HELL no 5 minutes after I resigned I was replaced by a cashier. So I do not think so highly of Family Dollar as a former Assistant Manager and my family and extended family will not even shop there again.. Good Bye Family Dollar.

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i hope se one will start checking these stores out especially the one in westfield ma. on franklin street

jut sent one comlaint before this one incase yo didn't get it it was employer says she was opening the other regrister and when i got in in line she just stood there i had to ask if she was going to open she answered no. before that she stood with the other girl while she was waiting on the customer while the other one was chit chating with a male custormer i stood in line for ten minutes all he bought was a pair of sunglasses. don't take that long. been shopping there since the store opened many years ago. a lot of people i know has talked about this store. it use to be friendly and enjoyable to shop at.

family dollar has gone down . don't enjoy going there as much as i use to. u7se like the people that worked there before . i remeber when nancy was there.

i was just in the store got what i wanted got in liine and the girls on regrister on cashing everyone out the other just standing there chit chatting with the custom while there was a line gathering heard her say she was going to open the other cash draw when i got there she just stood there i had to ask if she was open and she answered no and just stood there. never even responded with a hello or i am sorry but i am not open.. don't say your going to open then don't do it. i have been shopping at the family dollars since it has open in westfield and i never had a problem at all. now since they have moved just up the street the place isn't the same . at lease the employors that was there before were very friendly now your likely to get anything from them. i just might go to dollar tree it might be out of my way but they seem much more friendly and are helpful yours truly donna mccabe 15 may street westfield, ma 01085