Family Dollar review: wrongful terminations ( 1 comment)

I was a Store Manager for Family Dollar in Knoxville, TN. I was an unofficial training manager, I worked anywhere from 52 upto 80 hours in a week. The payroll was horrible I could not give my cashiers the time that they deserved and therefore cause a very difficult time finding people that wanted to stay with the company.

My crew and I had the sales volume up and on track to make over 1 million the year I was fired, which proves that we were doing a good job. I was elected to handle a crew to remodel some store's throughout the district, I had reservations against it from the get go but had to do it. Once I was on my last store I was pulled off the crew and put back into my store. I found out that the DM had placed me on investigation for payroll fraud.

This came about because he was setting up a parking lot sale and had transfered merchandise from all 20 store's to this one store. The total amount transfered was massive, so I contacted Loss Prevention. Little did I know that the LP and the DM were working together. The DM called me and required my crew to help set up this sale. I was told that I needed to tell my crew that overtime would be part of the deal. So, we went to work this sale and my crew ended up with around 20 hours of overtime each.

This is when the DM placed me on investigation. I contacted the Alert Line that is a huge joke, so don't even bother! I found out later that it just makes upper management mad to have to deal with a problem. I was never contacted back and I ended up loosing my job. When the LP came to interview me he gave me 10 or 12 questions that were writen out so that no matter how you answered it you would saying that you had done the exact thing they were accusing you of. When I brought this up he insulted me by questioning my education level (basically calling me ignorant). He then got mad because I would not sign the documents and asked for my keys and name badge.

I tryed to contact the regional and of course I got nothing, he would not even answer or call me back. I live in TN and this state is an At Will State. Meaning they can terminate with or with out cause. So if you are looking at this company for employment I would really advise against it. The upper managers are just looking for fall guys. By this I mean anyone below the DM can and will loose their job at anytime for any reason. The worst part is corporate DON'T CARE! Be ADVISED you are taking you career into your own hands.