My name is Brian Silva. I formerly worked at family dollar store 12302 in arlington texas. It is relatively new. I helped open this store as of this year. There are numerous incidents and wrongdoings I have seen and experienced in which need to be brought to light.
For starters, all employees were scolded for the door tag being an issue ever since the store started. Faron, the store manager, got on to us every time about the importance of putting on a door tag after it was opened. However I can think of at least four instances off the top of my head that I can recall in which he forgot about the door tag and left. Also at least twice I've suffered along with many employees while he gave himself both days of the weekend off. And of course one of the other assistant managers has Sundays off every time and Faron never works Saturdays, which leaves the rest of us to scramble and NEVER have weekends off and pick up slack and other various tasks that could have been otherwise balanced. This still occurs. Another Injustice I was not fond of was that we were never allowed to call in. Regardless of how much time we gave in advance or what emergency came up, once the schedule was made only Faron was allowed to leave and get people to come early or late. Sometimes he would just flat-out text and say that he gave away our shift so we don't need to come in. At one point I told him I was puking sick and can't come in because of food poisoning; and his response was "just come in and stock, you won't put on a register but you need to be here".
My one-pass coworker tried calling in and had to go to the doctors, and he still tried to make her come in. On another side note, when I asked if another associate could cover my shift, I was met with "managers cannot pick up cashier shifts." However anytime a cashier calls in, even to this day, my girlfriend who is an assistant manager is one of the first people he will text or call to try to cover their shifts. Faron goes back on his word like this often. I would also like to add another occurrence during my employment. When working as a cashier, stocking during one shift, my girlfriend Katie was an assistant manager and on a register. Faron was in the office. Katie was receiving family calls saying that her Mimi had minutes to live so she should call and say her goodbyes. Faron would not let me take her place on the register even though it was not busy at all. By the time she had gotten off the register, her Mimi had already passed away and we were livid to say the least.
Recently my mother got hired at this Family Dollar. Now back when i was employed, Faron clearly stated that I was not allowed to get off the same day as Katie for the funeral because of the fact that I was not family. We weren't married, and though I was close to the Mimi, I understood that policy. However when my mother interviewed and was hired on, Faron said that with her experience she was clearly manager material. The only reason he wouldn't make her a manager is because "Katie is here and y'all are family." Now somebody tell me how my mother is related to my girlfriend whom I am not legally married or bound to. Lastly, as a final note, when I helped to start the store with a corporate guy who's name is Daniel, he was in charge of choosing who gets to earn their way as a permanent employee within the store. I was told I was to become an assistant manager---in fact Katie and I both earned our way to that title in the days that it took to begin the store. Instead, Faron decided to make me have an open availability but never made me a manager and a made katie a manager in the matter of days.
All of my cases here come to the same conclusion:
that Faron does not need to be a store manager in charge of so much power.