My name is Katie Williams, a Family Dollar associate of store 12302 in Arlington Texas, off of Arkansas Lane and Sherry Street. I am an assistant manager and need to come forth with all of the corruption inside the store. I have a lot so there will be no specific order to how I list them all.
1.) First, I seem to be the only manager whoever takes tags down and puts them up regardless of the shift or day of the week. No one else ever seems to take that responsibility.
2.) Often the store manager (Faron Jennings) tries to call me and other people to come in a couple of hours earlier than they are scheduled, just so he can leave earlier always with a different excuse every time.
3.) Sometimes when he decides to give more hours to one person, he will call or text to tell another person to come in later than they were scheduled, resulting in the loss of hours. Faron is notorious for making unfair scenarios like this.
4.) We are not allowed to call in to work at all, or leave early like he does often, not even for emergencies. At one point I was on the register while another employee was stocking and Faron was in the office. I was receiving calls and texts from family that I was about to lose a close relative. I needed to call and say my good-byes but Faron would not allow the other employee to take my place on register even for a few seconds. By the time I was off the register she had already died. The store was not busy on this day. Recently Faron has started crossing more such lines and holding the store even more loosley together.
5.) Another cashier who had been demoted in the past is currently still a cashier. However she still walks around with the store manager keys on her person and I have witnessed her coming up to the front acting as a manager when other cashiers call for assistance. At times she even tries to tell us how stuff is supposed to be run.
6.) I don't know if this part helps, but I do know that Faron would always emphasized the importance of the door seal to everybody and always blame it on everybody else but he would always have an excuse every time he left it without a seal. He has left the door without a seal at least five or six times I can think of and then when we brought it up he always said "I could swear it was on there!"
7.) Recently Faron talked to a new associate and asked if she would be willing to walk up the street to the bank, which is a good 25 to 30 minute walk, with the store deposit which consisted of a good couple thousand dollars. That same day, he asked a morning shift associate to come up during the night at which time she was off the clock and drive the deposit. That did not happen but the fact that he asked her to do it is still not okay. This happens all the time because he does anything he can to make others carry his workload as much as possible so he can do minimal work. There are many other stories that needs to be shared from the store but I will end this message here at the most recent unprofessional act displayed.
8.) We currently have 97 applications in counting for this store. Faron skipped over all of them to recently higher two of his "wrestling buddies" even though we're low on payroll. We are so low on payroll that some Associates get one or two days a week and sometimes even a whole week without shifts. This is happened to more than one associate, many times. But now we have two new employees who aren't managers, they are not cashiers, but they are taking hours apparently just to stock. Not only is that bad enough but the first day that I meet them I learned that they gossip behind our backs. The first words one of them had said to me was "Hi, you must be Katie. I heard you were the pissed off and negative one."
I didn't say or do anything nor have I ever taken action, but there needs to be an investigation and a removal of store manager within the store. And his wrestling buddies need to go too.
I'm taking the time to expose Faron because he does not need to be in charge of a store with his lack of responsibility and his need to gossip like a High School drama girl.
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