Bridget
Fayetteville,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, August 01, 2005
I have been reading all of the posts regarding Family Dollar and I have seen so many that are so far off, it makes me insane. I have felt like I was defending Family Dollar and that is not what I wanted to do. You have said it accurately!!! The only exception is that the DM's can not "allow" managers to go over budget. They get written up, too. Thier payroll budget is a complete joke, except in new store set-ups and grand openings. They have ample payroll budget for the first few weeks after opening. My husband and I sadi many, many times that they needed to rename the stores to Forget Your Family Dollar or something like that because it seemed that they expected the managers to put the job before family. Now, we were lucky and we had an AWESOME DM for most of our employment with Family Dollar and he really helped us out and frankly, my husband was one of the managers that was allowed to bend some of the company policies, which helped a lot. It was always conditional on his store being ran right. We bent the policies such as... no family at work and no one working off the clock (me being the person working off the clock). He did not have the payroll he needed for truck day, so I would always go to the store on truck days and I would help unload the truck and help stock the shelves and actually see my husband, even though at that point I was not an employee of Family Dollar. I was a Stay-At-Home Mom. When our son was born, I would take him to the store to see his Daddy. There was a point in time when my husband had a pathetic assistant who always had a reason to call in on my husband's day off and he went many weeks without his day off. When we still had the first DM, it all worked out because he would send a manager or assistant manager from another store to cover his store for him to have his day off, but after the DM's switched, things got REALLY bad, no days off, I wasn't even allowed to shop in the store, and when our son was hospitalized for pneumonia, the new DM demanded my husband come to work anyway, even though the assistant was available that day, and so, my husband put in his 2 weeks notice!