Family Dollar
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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.

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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

Didn't understand a Word.

My complaint is not about your store items, but about the illegal emigrants that you have hired at your store on Telephone Rd in Houston. I know this man has false papers that he bought them at the flea market and even has warrants out for his arrest. How do you expect us to feel comfortable in your store when you have these type of employees. In order for you to fill your positions with cheap labor you decide to hire the worst of the worst. Don't you realize that WE-the Americans are having to pay for their benefits? We need jobs too! You should be ashamed of yourself, trying to act like you are for the FAMILY but instead you hit us where it hurts the most, our pocketbooks. You evidently are not using the background check system(again to save money), nor are you following the law. The law states that if caught the company will be liable for a BIG FINE. We will never visit your store again - those criminals belong in jail or shipped back to their country.

This entire complaint makes no sense at all? There are thousands of illegal immigrants working in the US. If you have supposive proof that this employee is in fact an illegal and bought his papers at a flea market? How in the hell would you even know that for one and why did you not call the federal government on this person if you know this? Ummm...not the police. It appears to me to be gossip, jealousy and yes racism which by the way is against the law in the workplace so you may want to have all of your facts before proceeding or you yourself could be sued for false accusations and falsifying a report!

"but, why is it only the mexicans that are usually the ones that come in illegally and very few others do?"

I think there are a lot of illegals from everywhere here because it's such an awesome place to be.. but.. Mexico does share a border with us, so they just have better access than everyone else. And their country is ###, so I don't blame them for wanting to leave it.

i have to agree. if you are here illegally, GTFO. if you call someone racist, its a racist that doesnt like illegals regardless of nationality. it just happens to be that the person is probably mexican. but, why is it only the mexicans that are usually the ones that come in illegally and very few others do?

Difference in opinion then I guess.

"I know this man has false papers that he bought them at the flea market and even has warrants out for his arrest." This is just a crazy sentence to me. Unless he witnessed it, how would he know this? If he knows that this person has a warrant out for his arrest, he must know this employee personally (otherwise, it would just be hear-say). Which THEN would make me think he has some type of grudge against him for a reason not specified. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it... but it still seems a liittttlllee racist :)

What I'm saying is.. How does he even know this guy is illegal? Because his friend said that he heard from his cousin that this particular employee got papers from a flea market? Sounds racist to me.

I read it as.. "Ship this guy back to his country even though I don't know 100% for sure that he's here legally or not.. he's brown/black/yellow/not like me so he must be here illegally..."

I'm all for deporting illegals and encourage anyone here illegally to conform to the American way of life and go through the proper channels to become a US citizen, but you can't just assume that because someone isn't like you, they're here illegally or have warrants out for their arrest.

"I know this man has false papers that he bought them at the flea market and even has warrants out for his arrest"
Did you see him purchase the false papers? How do you know about the warrants out for his arrest? Sounds like gossip to me.

"Don't you realize that WE-the Americans are having to pay for their benefits?"
What if this kid isn't an illegal? You just sound like an ignorant racist.

"or shipped back to their country."
Yep. Ignorant racist.

I beleive a fine should be imposed on employers that hire illegals. It should be a HUGE fine and put in the countries coffers to cover social services and the cost of I.C.E. .

who cares if she like black or white if it hurts you so bad to see and notice everything this person is doing do not shop there it is other stores u can go to it looks like u go in there to see what she is going to do just leave it alone .

I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN BUT I KNOW THE FAMILY DOLLAR DOES NOT HIRE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO RUN THEIR STORES. ITS ALWAYS BEEN ONE PERSON PUT IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING AND THEY ARE NOT PAID A WELL ENOUGH SALARY FOR ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND STRESS THAT IS THROWN UPON THEM AND YES THEY DO GET VERY FRUSTRATED. I'VE ALWAYS SEEN ONE PERSON IN CHARGE UNLOADING THEIR TRUCKS THEM SELVES AND STOCKING THE STORE WHILE STILL MANAGING EMPLOYEE TIMES AND BREAKS AND CUSTOMERS AND EVEN OPENING THE OTHER REGISTER WHEN ITS BUSY, AND THEN RUN BACK TO FINISH UNLOADING AND STOCKING THE STORE. THAT ONE PERSON IS ALSO SECURITY. THEY USUALLY HAVE ONLY ONE PERSON ON THE REGISTER AND THE OTHER PERSON DOING EVERYTHING ELSE. ONLY DURING HOLIDAYS THEY MAY HAVE TWO CASHIERS AND THE OTHER PERSON STILL DOING EVERYTHING ELSE. I GUESS YOU CAN SAY THAT FAMILY DOLLAR ONLY HIRES EMPLOYEES TO WORK ON A BUDDY SYSTEM...ONLY TWO EMPLOYES ON THE CLOCK AT ONE TIME AT ALL THEIR LOCATIONS WITH EXCEPTION FOR HOLIDAYS. THAT JOB REALLY SUCKS.

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All I can say, is read the following from a former manager of "Family" Dollar. As a former manager, I can tell you that MY family wasn't of any concern to the company-but I made sure my customers families were taken care of. It wasn't easy keeping a "plastic" smile on my face. My blood pressure was up (two weeks after I left, it was back down to a normal range) and I was on medication for stress-not necessary any more, and I HATED my life. Before you get mad because someone "mistreats" you, take some time to ask yourself, have YOU always treated people with the dignity they deserve or are you one of those who thinks you can be rude and because you are the customer you are always right. Walk a mile in my shoes and see how polite YOU are...

Almost six years ago I began my career with Family Dollar Stores. I was told that I would do my training in a store 35 miles away from my home, and then I would be transferred to Stroudsburg, a new store. The new store in Stroudsburg never opened. I accepted store #3155, Allentown, still 35 miles from my home until a location closer to my home would become available. Store #3155 was on the floor, no help, no Assistant Store Manager, schematics were not done in most Departments for 3 years. The stockroom was packed to the ceiling with freight. I had to work the store from open to close for eight weeks. 80 hours per week, no day off. I did all the schematics, emptied the stockroom, hired a staff, and trained an Assistant Store Manager. Inthe six years that I managed the store the sales increased over $400, 000. My store was always neat, clean, and totally recovered. Almost every store visit by my District Manager or Regional Manager I would receive a '5' on the Anytime 5 Reports. I always scored in the upper 90's on my Loss Prevention/Operational Audits. I was always very proud of my store, and it showed. I missed 2 days of work in 6 years. One sick. The other was a very bad ice/snowstorm. I was always asked to go help out in other stores with problems. I always went. I was a very dedicated and loyal employee and wanted to spend the rest of my life with Family Dollar Stores. During my 6 years I had 10 District Managers, and 4 Regional Managers.

About 3 years ago the neighborhood around the store started to turn bad. My old customers left. Bad ones came in. I asked time and time again for more payroll. I was unloading 600 - 800 cartons a week by myself because I could not keep the sales floor covered. I was in the store 16 hours a week by myself. My shrinkage started to increase. I was robbed at gunpoint. All my hair fell out. Never missed work. I was told that Family Dollar Stores would install a camera system. This never happened. Not quite a year went past and I was robbed again at gunpoint. I was told again that Family Dollar Stores would install a camera system. This never happened. However, I did receive a plastic camera to mount above the checkout area. I had to climb the ladder every 7 hours to replace the batteries in it. I was told that all my shrinkage is internal. I replaced most of the employees. Still the store is getting worse and worse. I am still in the store by myself. I worked every Saturday and Sunday open to close because this was when most of the problems occurred. I received no help from any District Manager. Just 'keep your eyes on things'.

Last September, my District Manager 'estimated' my shrinkage at $40.000. I was told that if the numbers don't hold I would be gone. The store is still getting worse. For 3 years I had all the high priced medicines under the checkout with shelf talkers on the counter. When I would receive my Weekly Exception Cycle Counts all medicines were accounted for. I was told to put the medicines back on the counter. Family Dollar Stores would order a special fixture for them to keep them up at the front. This never happened. All the medicines were gone in a week. When I would receive my Weekly Exception Counts anywhere between $60.00 - $100.00 per item were missing. It's all internal I was told. Two weeks before Labor Day I was watching a customer - he showed me a knife. Still by myself in the store.

I would travel back to the store on the nights that I would not close and watch. I would put money in the safe from my pocket to see if it would be there in the morning. I would put tape on the receiving door at the bottom to see if it would be opened after I left. I would draw pencil lines on the stockroom floor where the flex-roller wheels were at the receiving door to see if it was moved. I would place small pieces of wood outside behind the receiving door to see if the door was opened. I would have my friend call with my calling card (so it could not be traced) to ask if my District Manager was there - just to scare them if the employees were up to no good. I did everything I could think of and more. I did everything but run the store for the last 4 months. No help from anyone. None. Every 2 weeks my District Manager would come in and tell me how much more the inventory estimate was short.

My District Manager came to the store the second week in January and told me the shrinkage went up another $45, 000. Still by myself in the store for 10 - 12 hours a week. Continuing to work around 60 hours a week, and still helping out in other stores.

My last day I told my District Manager what I did to try to prevent the losses. I told him that if Store #3155 had the DVD camera system, like every other store has in the Allentown/Bethlehem area, we would not be in this situation. Northing was done to help me stop the losses.

family dollar store is a very agervating place to show i dont like being followed all over the store just because somebody stoled its not fair.i reather show at dolaer general or andy other dollar store than to go through that every visist iam not a criminal iam a tx paying customer at least i was untill these rude insadents.

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