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Complaint Review: Family Dollar - Morristown Tennessee
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Morristown, 37814 Tennessee, U.S.A.
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Family Dollar Corporation ripoff Morristown, Tennessee
I completely understand with the earlier posts from people who have dealt with Family Dollar as a customer or as an employee. I worked for eight years as a store manager and have seen and witnessed many problems inside the corporate monster. I was "dismissed" because the district manager wanted all new store managers under his new reign as our district's new manager. I am a very down to earth person, honest, and also willing to always give 110% to anything I do. My dismissal had no grounds.
It is true also about what people say about working so many countless hours and only recieving a 40 hr. paycheck. Family Dollar calls it manager's salary... we don't clock in... we write down our hours/add to computer at end of week.. then they send us a base pay for what we unfortunately had agreed to in writing. Our pay is told to us at time of hiring- salary. We are also told we would never work more than around 45 hours per week. My average was 66 hours per week. If I wasn't at work, I was called in by my DM and told I was needed. It never ended.
So many other things I could share.. thankfully, I have learned from my time at Family Dollar, And continue to try to lead others to other job opportunities with in retail. Family Dollar was an enormous waste of eight hard-working years.
Deana
Talbott, Tennessee
U.S.A.
It is true also about what people say about working so many countless hours and only recieving a 40 hr. paycheck. Family Dollar calls it manager's salary... we don't clock in... we write down our hours/add to computer at end of week.. then they send us a base pay for what we unfortunately had agreed to in writing. Our pay is told to us at time of hiring- salary. We are also told we would never work more than around 45 hours per week. My average was 66 hours per week. If I wasn't at work, I was called in by my DM and told I was needed. It never ended.
So many other things I could share.. thankfully, I have learned from my time at Family Dollar, And continue to try to lead others to other job opportunities with in retail. Family Dollar was an enormous waste of eight hard-working years.
Deana
Talbott, Tennessee
U.S.A.
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Bridget
Fayetteville,Arkansas,
U.S.A.
We were informed
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, August 01, 2005
When my husband was hired as a manager, he was told at the initial interview that he would be required a MINIMUM of 52 hours per week and that there would be times he would work more than that. In the beginning, he worked exactly 52 hours a week while he was in the training program. We were under the impression that he was going to take over the Springdale, Arkansas so that the manager there could go on to be a DM. By the time he finished the training period, things had changed and he was transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma because a manager had walked out and the store was in AWFUL shape. He got that store back in shape and did so well that he became a "clean-up manager" (my term, not the companies) and he went all over Tulsa helping with this store and that store. During that time, he was gone by 7:30 a.m. and I was lucky if he was home before 10 p.m., but he had his day and a half off EVERY week. Four months later, they built the new store in Jenks, Oklahoma and that was his store. He worked 55 - 60 hours each week, except for inventory week. I helped him with his inventory and another manager came over to help. My husband's two year old slept on a rug in the back room while we did inventory until almost 4 a.m. That was rough. Six months later he promoted to Store Development Supervisor and was away from home 13 days and home 3, away 13, etc. When we discovered that I was pregnant, he asked to drop back to manager. Again, he typically worked 55 - 60 hours a week. Now I think it's also important to mention that there were times that the DM was out working until 3 or 4 in the morning also, and on at least two occassions, he worked that late and then also turned around and picked up Russ (regional vp) at the airport at 6 a.m. But once the DM left and a new one came in, the hours became worse and worse and he rarely got a day off.
