Good for you!

Do managers get paid significantly more (or district/area managers if looking for a promotion)? I can't imagine the pay is a high enough incentive to treat their fellow employees like this. And good for you!

Not all heros wear a cape... or do you? As someone who takes violations like these as serious, my store was doing a remodel (big ass box store) and a pallet of hardware was left in the fire isle. it was overnight but we had so many workers working in the store. After assessing it was abandoned I moved it off stage. A lead said it was OK because the store was in remodel, I flat up told him that fire exits are not something you keep clear at your discretion, and we have nearly as many workers as we have customers in the day. If anything, all the tools (linoleum tile work also uses a blow torch) ment there was even a hire risk of fire.

Good for you! I was just thinking, what can people do to protest, and was thinking ...what if everyone went and like, filed OSHA or safety violations...

like a boss

A country built on slavery with a deep desire to never resolve it...

No, just of the people who _run_ the country, both elected and lobbyists, because they're pretty much all in the same income bracket.

Don’t worry, it’s the same on this side of the atlantic. I‘d say the issue is capitalism, if I didn‘t know how other countries are doing. The problem is just humanity I guess.

You just described my experience in working for CVS stores, they do the exact same thing with labor as described in this video.

It's not just this country. You're describing capitalism.

They're so cheap they don't bother to have different models

Yup

that reminds me of this time i was sponsored by gucci. they sent me the wrong size shirt! they fixed it real quick but man oh man was i worried i wouldnt have a new gucci shirt to wear out! how embarrassing would that have been!!!!! any way, i never had to try to get money, it was just handed to me. life is EZ mode!!!!

I'm sorry dude :(

Wow

That is just disgusting company

my mom was a high powered exec at an advertising firm when i was 6. both my parents retired by 40. i never had to do any kind of physical work, we've always had helpers, maids, laborers, etc to do the stuff we're above doing. we got a lot of good nights of rest considering all our time was free. when you have $$$ life is EZ mode!!!!!

@@itchiegames Evidently that "EZ mode" doesn't include your grammar.

I used to work at a Walmart. Humankind needs to invent a whole new language just to explain how godawful these jobs are.

That is bad when working in Walmart looks like paradice compared to working at $ Gen

I've heard it both ways since I worked at both. My manager at dollar general left walmart for dg, but when I was at walmart after (due to the $5-6 more per hour) so many people came flocking from DG. The only upside to walmart is you can be rude to customers if they're rude to you cause nobody can find a manager

My local Wmrt had three people die, within the past year, to causes often linked to high stress,

Well, there are more empty, so people tend to be more bold about stealing or straight up. Trying to fight the employees and I'm not talking about some s*** I've seen online. I'm talking about some shit I see when I go to the fucking dollar store.

I'm happy you got out. I worked there for a year back in 2010, and it was as god awful then as it is now from the looks of it.

Crazy I worked there for 2 weeks and was like yeah no...

Congratulations comrade, you can rest now

I agree my last day was Friday wake up Monday morning with a letter and a John Oliver video

🤪 L I T E R A L L Y 🤪

Most def. But no one pays attention to the DOLLAR STORES because “low income” people are the main consumer. America focuses on the rich. That’s it. That’s all. If the rich aren’t complaining. What we say doesn’t matter.

For real. I have a friend who works at Pandora, and she doesn't get commission. For how much that stuff costs, the least you can do is give credit where credit is due

As a Dane I usually find American stores shocking and kinda offputting with just the insane laundry list of bullshit expected of the employees. Like the only thing I expect them to do is scan my items, generally run the store (stock items, clean etc.), and answer my questions about where stuff is if they have time. I do not expect them to bag my items like I'm a grown ass adult and I'd feel kinda insulted if someone started doing that. I also don't expect them to stand up, which for some reason is a thing in the US, like why the fuck would I care about when it's obviously impractical not to mention uncomfortable. And I do not give a shit if they smile or are cheery or say a nice goodbye, I wear headphones almost all the time when I'm outside and I'm only here to get the stuff I need and then leave. I don't buy food for the experience of it, I buy it because I need it to survive. Like I'm not about to claim that working in retail is particularly nice in Denmark either, it's still some of the lowest paid labor here and you still have to deal with customers. But at least retail workers here aren't expected to do random pointless bullshit that contributes nothing to the functioning of the store. And I think it's at least a broadly acknowledged truth here that work sucks and no one really wants to do it so we might as well be nice to each, and also no one likes to shop for groceries so we all just want to leave as quickly as possible. I heard most of this from an online friend in Florida and I think if I ever visit I'll just like hang around him working for one day and mock all the customers for being little babies.

you're a joke. read the title of the stink'n video, it's a segment on dollar stores, and it's supposed to be a comedic segment... Y'allA_Amazi being hyper critical where it doesn't count.

The customer is always right. If the boss is giving you a bad employee experience, that doesnt permit you to take it out on customers. Be kind to customers. If theyre employee is frustrated, believe me, the customers are too.

There isn’t slavery anymore. You can always find another job.

Agreed. Third parties are wonderful at work places. Email verification of what was said at meetings with the bosses. Cameras should be everywhere. I also want permission to record. I’m gonna do it anyway but permission is nice.

Or, you know, put together a union. @@maliant16

@@maliant16 Thats a pretty fucking privileged thing to say.

@@maliant16 Can you though? With the way companies are ghosting people I would say not really.

Maybe the only answer is for OSHA to stay on them with fines weekly, daily until they change their business model.

This is it right here. Right on the money. They don't want to pay extra to be safer.

Close the store until violations are resolved!

​@@jaym7369but they won't

​@@kaivickers166OSHA doesn't have the resources. That isn't an accident.

No no, they ARE helping the store and the store ONLY. The store, who is SUPPOSED to help provide the community who needs the items in the store. The store in this case is taking ADVANTAGE of the people helping and the worker because the more people help and provide free labor the less the store is incentivized to pay to provide the service themself. The worker in the store is being helped but will not gain more money for it and was put in that situation BY the store. The helpers are being used for their labor, it does not benefit them either. The customers pay a markup on the items, which is supposed to be for the service the store provides. but since the store is not providing it and abusing good Samaritans and worker alike to work more than one could, the mark up is not justified enough. This ONLY benefits the store owner who is not doing anything and yet getting all the fruits. Everyone but the store owner is getting fleeced. This is called "rent seeking" behavior. Which means: getting money without producing anything of value for said money. In this case, the amount they mark up does not reflect the value of the service the capital owner provided. Overworking and underpaying workers while charging as much as if they did not overwork and underpay them and pocketing the difference: Rent seeking.

I'm so sorry for your loss RIP Brian Shame on this company. I hate DG so much.

May your friend Rest In Peace ❤😢😢😢😢

you have a great day! what a bittersweet way to start one’s day

Us.

If you're in America, have a good Thanksgiving. Right?

What was for breakfast?

Facts

"We are the Royal family and we aproove this message"

I think that's just called capitalism

War? Stonks. Bank collapse? Bailout. Then stonks. Housing crisis? Stonks. Global pandemic? Stonks. Inflation? Stonks. Gas prices? Stonks. Most people don’t have access to stonks? Stonks.

And the rest of the world ends up copying them. Even if they weren't the first to do that shit, they perfected it. Man. Shit womps.

​@brandonayong5823 They don't even have that in the US. ... And yet, the US acts just like the Royal family. Canada, I understand. Australia, Kenya, Uganda, Jamaica, or anyone else who still has the royals as their figure head "head of state," I understand. But the US? The fug is there excuse? Capitalism. Of course it is. What else could it be? lol.

I think one of the best parts of LWT is how so many people get to feel heard I hope it was a genuinely cathartic experience for you

Similar story bud, I'm glad that he's talking about the nightmare that is scheduling and how much they want done in 0 time.

I'm glad you are talking about it in the past tense. More people need to stop working at these companies who treat their employees like crap.

@@dancahill9585 Some don’t really have a choice. But it would be cool.

How long did you last?

Same for Rubbermaid. Former employee

If you haven’t seen LWTs segment on union busting, I recommend it!One of Amazons anti-union videos come up in that one. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/f5tpmIuPiaag2mw.htmlsi=eq7BPUzGcJbqGjFT

CVS and Macy's both had them too when I worked at them. I think most retail workers see them.

I worked at a Brookdale assisted living facility and encountered the same thing.

i worked at walmart fomr 2014-2016/2017 and we were told the same/saw a video on the "evils" of unions. knew it was complete bullshit even at 18 fresh out of hs.

Wait, people TELL their bosses where they're going to be working next. I just told mine "I've found a place with better hours," or "I'm leaving the field to do something with my degree," and didn't think I had to explain any more than that.

This is why America does not want universal healthcare or better worker rights. if you have the ability to leave a job that is abusive, you would. IF someone paid me 8.50 and told me to do all that, when I lived in Belgium, I would not rush, I would very casually go about doing the things and when things are in disarray at the end of the day, let it be. It's not my problem to make sure the company functions and if they fire me... ohwel, who is going to run the store then? But that is because I have the means to get fired, enough funds to survive, my healthcare is not effected and the worker protections from the gov, means I will get a nice stipend for them unjustly firing me. So eventually a business like that would just go under. Now that I work and live in America... I will be a lot more hesitant to do this, because if I am desperate enough to take an 8.50 job I probably do not have enough to cover my basic needs and I would lose health insurance or have to go on an expensive private plan. So if i lost my job I would be WORSE off. This is how and why America operates. To keep a boot on the neck of hard working people to force them to do things against their best interest because they HAVE TO. Unionize and organize! (also I would work hard if and WHEN my compensation matches my effort and if I would be valued instead of treated like cattle)

Vote to keep income-based housing for seniors and needy. VOTE 2024😮😮😮😮

Anyone who leaves Florida should be 1000% happier.

You are awesome for helping them do that. What a relief it must be for them!

Our government needs to build way more housing. Housing should be cheap. Die mad about it, landlords.

Happy for your parents!

You meant "nauseated"

@@gw6667 Omg thank you so much

At what point will people understand that **CAPITALISM IS THE PROBLEM**?

Well my company: They have huge amount of grocery stores, hotels, restaurants etc. During the worst lockdown phases restaurants were closed and nobody was staying in hotels. This company didn't lay off anyone. Instead they offered an option for restaurant and hotel workers: They could work in grocery stores with their original hours, but with grocery store wages. Grocery store wages are higher than restaurant or hotel wages here. Many of those workers earned a lot more during lockdown..and when lockdown was over they returned to their original jobs. My employer also have paid Christmas-bonus during last years. During Covid-shutdown-years it was about 100-150€ (about the same in dollars), but last year it was 300-500€. We have our own social media channel.. and base level worker can say there that CEO's ideas suck..as long as you remember to stay "matter-of-fact". Would this multi-billion corporation make John nauseous?

Welcome to Corporate Tree General.

The hell????? DG is sickening - I had no f'in idea.

Wtf??!!

Human bites?

WTF?

Hol up HUMAN bites?

Food stamps are a handout to billionaires, on the front end and the back end. Food stamps subsidize wages supposedly paid by billionaires, while the stamps end up in a billionaire's pocket. You were just used as a vehicle to transfer a handout. 🤢🤮

Did OSHA follow through? I had to call them once and I heard back from them once and that was it

I’m so sorry you had to go through that

I was kept part-time to avoid being eligible for benefits.

Wow, I'm fascinated how in the US you view 1 week vacation as a "benefit". Here in Europe, in most countries, having 4 weeks of paid vacation is a right. The benefit is whatever your employer gives you on top of that, in my company's case 38 days of paid vacation in total.

I've got 1 more year. It's just enough to offset what I pay in Child Support out of my main job's check so I can at least afford groceries

current life of somebody with money: do whatever i want when i want, buy whatever i want, complete freedom, no work, no boss, no responsibilities so yeah im pretty fucking content in life. i dont have to do anything and i just paid off a bmw in like 8 months. $$$ = ez mode!!! LOL @ you

Hype Good luck buddy

I live in a rural county in Tennessee and we have four Dollar General Stores here within just a few miles of each other.

Because of the monopoly Dollar Store are probably the single large employer in the area, so people have literally no choice but to shop in the company store.

I get mad at DG/DT for not selling veggies so I try my best to boycott & shop 1 x a month 30 miles away.

It's no better in other places in rural America. Upstate NY has Dollar stores in just about every medium sized town

I live in East TN and that seems accurate. Sad but true. These things are everywhere! It's tiresome. They will become the new Walmart. Pretty soon I expect to see some with a sporting goods section and a place to get your oil changed. This needs to stop!!

as a southern, there is a huge comfort whenever i heard raymun noodles instead of ramen,

Raymond noofles

That lady doesn't understand that there's a huge spectrum between those.

Maybe not a mistake. Maybe they are paid so bad that they have to get the generic noodle brand.

​@@samiraperi467seems like she does... it's kinda the point she was making

I get the feeling that it depends a bit on where the store is located. The only ones that I've been to are in areas with competition and they haven't looked much different from other retailers. I've been working next door to one for the last nearly 4 years and they've still got some of the same employees as when I was hired and even though we've got a ton of positions open, I haven't seen any of them coming to join us. Then again, that Dollartree looks nothing like the ones in this video and I always see multiple employees there.

Wendover productions did a video about dollar general as well and covered a lot of these topics, but focused more on the stores, their impact on the community, and how they have slowly taken over retail in rural markets

Yup! Did you work there when their "motto" (hung up in our break room) explicitly said making money for shareholders was the #1 priority? I forget the exact wording. I *like* retail, but DG was awful. I left for another retail job for reduced pay and it was a huge improvement. The schedule stayed the same (except vacations and people getting sick), which meant I could actually make plans and rest. At my DG, the coworkers and customers were awesome but the corporation treated workers like less than shit.

Lots of stories out there of people winning suits when those crowded isles created by poor corporate wage management has a box fall on you. Just saying, guys

I worked for DG for 4 years and it was hell. Corporate gives the stores barely enough hours to allow for one employee to work at a time. Its the only retail store that I know where cashiers are required to stock shelves. My DM would complain if he saw the cashiers behind the counter.

Thank you for doing this, it's the type of change that needs to happen, because it's the only change that will matter to corporations like this. In the new hire packet for dollar general it states that DG's mission is to provide a good return for shareholders, value for customers and a chance at employment for store associates, in that order. I read between the lines that the actual objective is to please shareholders, the rest is just a means to an end. I've been working for dollar general for 5 months now. 85 percent of my wages immediately go into a savings account so i can pay my bills. The remaining percentage barely covers thr most basic of living expenses (sometimes I'm left washing my hair with bars of soap or things like that). I'm on food stamps, cant afford a car and despite saving the majority of my paycheck each week, all it took was a couple of somewhat higher utility bills to wipe out every dime I'd saved from then to now. Im getting out of here ASAP and have an interview this week. I pray that im leaving dolllar general soon so i may have some quality of life again.

​@@memyselfi2005I really hope you get a better job soon. Best wishes to you.

I love your vibe

Wow

That is low key clever though

That's brilliant. I hope your wife becomes GM and then can use that experience to get into a job where they pay better though.

Be careful. A few GMs had to cover multiple districts bc there weren’t enough GMs in the region. The regional managers are a new level of hell and incompetence. I did corporate IT for Family Dollar and I will always feel for the store employees. These companies know what they are doing. The documents they use are often not locked and anyone on the network can read their dirty work.

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Wait, how did the investment scam bots get into this thread? 🤔

Goodwill in general. I worked in the corporate offices of one of their highest grossing chapters for 5 years. The things I saw and experienced. They love showing off people with physical disabilities for clout but the amount of fighting I had to do against my boss to attend my doctor and therapy appointments for my mental illness, which still counts as a disability, was ridiculous. Somebody used the company facebook account to spy on me and they fired me over a post I made. I had to take them to court to get my unemployment. They kept changing their story but in the end I learned they broke 3 laws when they fired me. My lawyer told me this wasn't his rodeo against Goodwill. I've had two former Goodwill employees ask me for his number.

Or disability pay

Seriously - corporate fuckers just want slavery back.

In nursing you'll be putting an IV in somebody's arm and a nurse manager will walk by with their hands in their pockets saying room 202 needs a bedpan.... So give it to her!!!!!!

This show was all skit and less intel. I feel bad for dollar general but like what are people doing about it?

​@@carolyniorio4476I walked away from my RN license after 5 years. Things were bad in the 90s, I can only imagine how bad it is now.

Hmm, maybe unfettered capitalism was not the right way to go? Except for the rich, they obviously love it.

holy shit lol, the audacity of that manager 😶

Wt!?, tramatic !!,

Please tell me you quit on the spot when they told you you had to finish the shift

@@idontwantahandlethoughThe audacity of the guy wielding the knife.

Did they rob the store, or did they rob YOU? Cause it seems to me that people could just load up a cart and walk it out the door and the employees would not give a shit

Homie you gotta get outta there!! 😭

Is it possible to just hire enough crew and to hell with corporate? Be a rebel by showing corporate more sales would pay for the staff and cover the added costs.

the Biden Administration has proposed a new rule that would require employers compensate full-time workers in management, administrative, or other professional roles for any overtime worked if they make less than $55,068 annually.

If you have a UPS warehouse near by try to work there. It's the holiday season and they are usually hiring.

As a former assistant manager for dollar general in Tulsa, I can verify that they don't give a hoot what we go through for them. You work and slave away, you get no time with your kids, and when you ask for more help, the answer is always a resounding no. I make more now in 3 hours than I made for an entire week working for them...

Omg me too! That "how many" did me in!

All the actors in the end sketch were great. And I'm not just saying that. Freakout lady, rat baby wagey, and the indifferent to mortal suffering corporate man, all nailed their roles. Like they were born to play them. I would love to see them get on SNL or something. I'm not their agent or anything, I was just really surprised with how funny and impressively well acted that was.

What's he gonna do with them?! 😮

I thought he said "I'm ready." Because DG employees are clearly willing to work for however many or few rat babies the company is willing to pay.

I love that actor. He was great in Will and Grace but I adored him in Grace and Frankie. Even his bit parts are hilarious.

It's great to know there is a unicorn 🦄 of a store out there. I live in a small Florida town that has 3 stop lights. We have 3 DG's, 1 DT and 1 FD along the 25 minutes it takes to get from one end of town to the other. All 3 stores chains have great employees that are overworked and under paid. They work very hard but it's a struggle for them to keep up. Their managers work crazy hours to cover the continuous payroll cuts. Some of the stores are so behind you can't get through the store because there are stock U-boats everywhere and their back rooms are full. It's hard for them to get caught up when managers work alone from open till lunch time when they have payroll for a cashier. So after working 6-8 hrs alone they get to start working there truck, setting ads, doing their resets, store paperwork and employee training. God help them if they have to hire a new employee on top of this. The best stocked store has a SM that comes into work at 3 am alone 3-4 days a week just to get something done. I hope these hard working people find the gift of their own unicorn store soon.

Dollarama is what a dollar store should be.

The waste at Dollar General is mind boggling. (Former employee)

One of the most despicable acts of capitalism, throwing out perfectly good products and food because giving it away would rightfully put them out of business. The measures taken to prevent "theft" are stronger than anything else in the company. It's inhumane, they actually just hate people, and nobody should accept these practices.

Truly disgusting. So many food pantries could really use personal items like laundry detergent and toiletries etc. So many desperate people out there.

​@mlr4524 and a number of people will pick it up

Where is the FIRE DEPARTMENT? Dept of Health? Oh yeah. Bad neighborhood or money in palm😮

A lot of supposedly "non profit" orgs are like that too. Basically as long as the company spends all the money it's taken in it's "non profit." Sure in reality there are very specific ways they are expected to do and then verify this but the result is still the same where CEOs get outrageous salaries voted in by trustees who just happen to own the real estate the nonprofit pays tippy top dollar for or better or same with whatever companies supply the organization with whichever consumables they go through or just massively overcharge for cleaning the floors at night, etc, etc. Many years ago there was a 92% tax on incomes greater than twenty times the average wage. This tax wasn't so much meant to be paid but rather to act as a barrier and deterrent to companies pulling exactly these kinds of shenanigans to peel off every spare cent for the managers and owners alone. Naturally this kept average CEO pay to less than 20 times the average income and by so doing it removed the incentives for these CEOs to empower the greed of any corrupt trustees or to funnel profits to shareholders (though since stock buy backs were essentially illegal back then anyway this was hard to do.) Back then the One Percent could only get richer by letting the rest of us get richer too while today they not only take it all for themselves but they also actively look for new ways to claw back what little we've saved. But for twenty years after WW2 this nation payed off that war debt and drove the biggest increase in economic activity and wealth in human history and it was ALL because that old top marginal tax rate made it impossible for the billionaires to take everything for themselves alone, allowing that money to fall to workers as living wages but also low prices with high quality as there was much less incentive to gouge and little profit in it. As a result this money actually being spent and circulated _literally was the postwar boom_ that made everyone richer and saw the Middle Class grow like crazy. And it was all because of that tax which ideally never needed to be paid just avoided the legal way. Unfortunately the One Percent managed to undermine and skirt it getting tax breaks to donate that money to causes that only benighted them ultimately seeing lower taxes that allowed greater greed. By 1980 they'd funded BS rightwing colleges to sell their propaganda and invent Trickldown and even before Reagan sold this magic beans to the boomers the top rate was reduced to 70% on paper and really less than half after tax breaks and much worse was set only on incomes above $10 million which was well above twenty times the average, decoupling that rate from a set multiple of that average being the biggest difference removing the need for us all to share in the good fortune rather than see it all go to the top. So CEO pay went from 20 times the average in the 1950s and 1960's to 60 times average in 1980 and over 400 to one today. That old very high top rate with very few loopholes fixed to a multiple of the average made all the difference, literally every issue we face from corporate resistance to progressive policies on climate, living wages and democracy itself would all be so much easier to tackle it was essentially only worth 8% of what it is now to fight us. Even Citizens United would hardly matter if there was 92% less of that cash to taint politics and if anyone it would taint would only ever see 8% of it after that. That old top rate is the real secret ingredient to duplicating the widespread prosperity the boomers took for granted.

I stopped shopping at the Goodwill as soon as they became a retail store of used items.

@@karlwithak. I'm sorry if that's your suicide note, it's lame. You probably even missed the fact that Corporate Rule and the Status Quo of the last forty years was completely built on dragging the fiscal narrative rightward by leveraging the eternal yet empty threat of the GOP going after abortion. Fear of losing seats to classic "anti abortion" Republicans too smart to draw the inevitable blowback of actually going after it allowed the relatively few corporate Dems to make you (apparently) happy with choosing only between socially progressive but supposedly electable fiscal conservative candidates instead of getting risky on all around progressives not to the right of Nixon. The fact that evangelical billionaires lobbying the SCOTUS and MAGA hordes jumping into politics undercut the old GOP threat of threatening reproductive rights has *completely shattered the control that the One Percent once had.* The literal reason we've seen so much positive momentum in organized labor is that there is NO unified or organized control for the first time in a generation. The lights are on but nobody is home. Institutional inertia coasting along is all there is delaying us from accomplishing _anything we want_ over the next two or three election cycles. So buck up already, Mopey.

I literally saw an empty plastic mixed greens container for $5. It was one of the exact containers you see in grocery stores with various types of greens for ~$1.99-3.99 WITH the greens inside. The label was still on it, too!

@@kyndkristen it makes you wonder who prices those items.

That's insane, literal Trump levels of corruption

Legal action?

contact a lawyer, that's likely collectable with interest

Absolutely file a lawsuit.

They can ignore it. It cost more for the person to file the suit than to get paid for the job.@@jessebarlow1277

Every day manager that gets to plan their termination tapers off their hours to something reasonable before they go. I had 2 months of 40 hours before I quit. The back warehouse was full and we had an entire truck just stocked in the rolltainers on the floor. For the entire last week my orders to staff were 'do stuff?' And I told the customers we were remodeling.

here 30 hours a week is considered part time. 40 hour weeks are normal and 80 hour weeks are what you need to survive at $16/ hour. Mostly cuz you would get 36 hours of overtime. Now how would one achieve this? You don't, the company doesn't wanna pay that o.t. ( or a real wage!) so just higher a manager on salary and abuse the rules. They make x amount a year without over time pay. dollar general just min/maxed it that's all....

A couple of my local DG stores were forced to close by the fire marshal because there was so much product in the aisles it was a safety hazard! 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

@@maxwellt.wiseman8570 A couple of my local DG stores were forced to close by the fire marshal because there was so much product in the aisles it was a safety hazard! 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

Going to hope she found a job where they at least tried to cut staff turnover.

Yea don't do it. I'm 50 and on my 4th week, it's kicking my butt all over.

Golly, I bet there wasn't any unpaid labor with having employees clock in early and clock out late, but intentionally within rounding distance to round down! It doesn't sound like much, but it added up to 1 to 1.5 hours a week per employee on average (5 minutes early, 7 minutes late, and if you had lunch, 5 minutes short). With 4 employees at 12.5k stores ("back in my day"), that's at least 50k unpaid hours per week. At minimum wage of $7.25, that's over $360k taken from workers and fed back to CEOs and shareholders. *edit:* I am underestimating the number of workers, and using the low end of 1hr unpaid per week. I am also using the lowest minimum wage in the country (my state was higher). This amounts to just under $19 million a year as a conservative estimate. *edit2:* this doesn't even count what they did to managers at the time. Obligated to work 54 hours a week, and when a law was being passed that would require compensation for >40 hours, I got to sit in on a call that explained they'd be reporting 40 hours, but the 54 hours was still mandatory

@@ZedaZ80 so how much are these shareholders earning in dividents, and how much are the top people earning in wages. And would a decision to cut down dividents be able enough to make a drastic change here?

@@nielskorpel8860 Not that much, dividend yield is at 2% and the stock price went down from 259 to 121 in 1 year, so this is an all around shitty company.

@@nielskorpel8860 I worked for a Family dollar as an assistant manager and was often working 6 hours in the opening shift by myself. I made 8$ per hour. That was not that long ago. This was a terribly accurate video.

Right. The one I worked for staffed the areas that had executives living in that area. And because the public knows it is understaffed several stores are regularly robbed.

This is the part I don't get. How are these dysfunctional assholes able to outcompete anyone?

:(

That’s so sad

All the stores they showed are in minority neighborhoods. I’m surrounded by dollar generals and family dollars, and none look like that. Been to a couple near the city and then they start looking like that.

I am afraid so.

correction: did you mean communities are killed inside the stores? ;-)

Did you maybe ask yourself why you live in a neighborhood where it‘s apparently no big deal if A SHOP WINDOW GETS SHOT OUT??? That never happened in my west-european country. Maybe you guys shouldn‘t focus so much on greedy corporations and instead ask yourself why poor people (especially negros) cannot behave?

That is insane.

You know what's really bad and true, at least in my area, is that many of these stores are located in bad areas where crime exists and crazies hang out. Sad but true. Damn shame.

Home Depot aggressively don't want Union's.

I'm glad you are OK. I hope you have moved on to better things and recovered from the trauma.

Best to sue the company. Document everything you can. Because this is the only way our country will give you recompense.

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Im not from the US. Why do people work for these companies? Are jobs so scarse that you cannot find a better employer?

There are entire businesses that specialize in union busting.

I feel bad that you Americans have to endure this kind of dystopia! I got this rare leg injury and had to see doctor for five times..and get this rare medicine. It cost me about 50 dollars..since parking wasn't free! Obviously I got full pay from all those days I couldn't work. Our society would have had me covered..by my employer offered a more expensive, but faster and efficient option IMPORTANT EDIT: For my sick days employer only has to pay for BASE hours. No weekend, evening or night extras etc. ... BUT MY EMPLOYER DECIDED THAT IT PAYS FOR EVERYTHING EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. Imagine how reliable and faithfull workers in my country are?

Dude they genuinely would rather fight a $500,000 lawsuit than pay you a penny to get better. They wanna make it as unattractive as possible to ask for care. I'm glad you got the compensation, but as someone who fought that fight, I'm guessing that you guys missed out on a lot of life and opportunity while you were stuck banging your heads against that wall.

@@dome2919 Look.. America is Fucked UP. This is general idea with your newest ally. I mean your $500000 lawsuits are a complete joke. They would never happen anywhere else. I heard about a case where this lady received $700000 from McDonalds since a hot nugget landed on her daughter. In Europe.. there would have been a case..where they would have seeked mothers role in this injury. Mother would have been trialed and had a conviction for failing to control her kid. They would have seeked if that mother is truly capable to have control of that kid..after the fine that mother receives from that McDonalds incident. The idea of the family receiving any money from this is insanely stupid.

​@@kimniceomg you are living in a socialist-communist dystopia -Is what an american would say.

@@winzyl9546 Exactly!! Instead according to studies my country has been the happiest for 6 years straight. ..if only Americans would really understand how much taxes they pay..and how little they receive back..maybe that could open few eyes?

The fines don't matter unless they are actually paid.

I can't believe they're allowed to stack violations like that. There's got to be a point a company gets put under mandatory management if not outright shut down.

​@@TooLoozethe fines don't matter unless they actually impact the business consequentially

$13.1 million in fines over the course of years to a company making $1.6 billion in *profits* per year is a fuckin' joke. At this point those fines are just the cost of doing business.

In any other situation the american carceral system would say incarceration and torture is the solution. But if youre a corporation its just cost of doing business

Me too, and I was happy to walk away when I did

Took you four years to figure it out??

That's not the point of minimum wage@@karlwithak. Besides, I'd take a Dollar General employee any day over some stuffed shirt who sends emails from bed all day.

So why you guys protect it like it is your daddy store.

​@@karlwithak. We all just gonna pass how you gotta be incompetent 27 times over or..... Was that you saying the quiet part out loud? Lulz

Kinda like a little pet. ❤️

Well, at least the rat is helping make room for more stock.

@@theodorebear6714like prisoners get?

​@@theodorebear6714those rats been there for generation on generation. The humans are the rats' pets at this point. The rats been there longer than most of the employees probably.

@@trevaenglish1542 the rats family has been living in that neighborhood for thousands upon thousands of years, likely before humans were even on the continent

No most dollar stores ive walked into look like hurricane Katrina

I stopped at a Family Dollar a couple months ago. The store was pretty decent as far as most items on the shelves in good order, with not much in the aisles. But while I was waiting in line to pay a couple men did a snatch-and-run shoplifting. One distracted the cashier and us customers by talking loudly and throwing products in the trash can by the door, while his friend filled his arms with clothing then they both ran. A few customers in line dropped their merchandise and ran into the parking lot after the men, which seemed pretty risky to me, but they came back empty-handed. The cashier checked us all out while trying to call her manager. No weapons shown but it still must have been scary for her.

Most likely your store looks good as a result of one of those rare occasions where there is a manager who puts in the effort and further inspires a few employees to be the same. Again, this is an uncommon scenario...but it happens. Typically those types of workers are worth way more than what Dollar stores are willing to pay and never stick around for the long haul.

No. Every family dollar I've been to has been nice. They have more hours to allocate to employees versus dollar general.

Just know you're doing a thankless job.

"We are committed to this" = "We are definitely not going to do anything about this but we hope that by promising it will seem like we have faced the issue"

Don't you just love Corporate Speak? You just know their lawyers are telling them: Deflect Avoid Ignore.

I know it's hard to get money to pay for rent and such, but please don't let yourself be abused just for a paycheck. Honestly, I've been homeless, and it's way better than voluntarily going to a screwed up employer.

I am glad you learned to stand up for yourself. I hope you also learned other real skills, both "human" skills and *human skills.* The difference being, "human" skills are used working _with_ and _for_ and _over_ other people, and *human* skills are using what you were *born* with: moving quickly with high endurance, whether stacking bricks, tieing knots, or distance running; learning to actually _use_ your senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and memory, math, logics that define us as *sapient.* ( _homo sapiens sapiens,_ you may have _heard_ of it but, probably never had it defined to you) Then there are _civilizational_ skills, like fixing a car or toaster or soldering a pipe and doing plumbing repairs or fixing a roof or planting food and creating fertilizer and choosing the _right_ fertilizer, or researching how something like a vaccine or insulin or an antibiotic was discovered, what problems and steps were made at refining it, and _make it yourself._ It is shocking how _easy_ any of those things _are,_ and how hard it _was_ to get there; starting with _how hard it is to notice things for the first time!_

​@@davidgoodnow269WTF?

Care of yourself 😢😢 Thinking about selfharm is a HUGE mark of depression. Pls don't let yourself unsave❤❤

Well done! I doubt you'll ever find yourself putting up with abuse again.

did not expect someone to mention fnaf under a John Oliver video that comment is gold

Didn't he base it off chuckie cheese though?

@@Perkele_foxtrot_oscar_bravo you can have multiple inspirations

That and Stephanie Sterling

@@alecmullaney7957 what about that person? No idea who that is sorry

I had to quit for similar lack-of-concern. My manager and the boss of the location refused to follow the COVID safety protocols and when I called up the chain in concern I got shrugged away. My coworker with asthma passed away from COVID later on after I quit. 🙃

​@@gaycryptidhoursthat's messed up.

Working at Dollar Tree during covid was terrifying, my manager, a couple co-workers, and a lot of customers actively refusing to wear masks, and when they did wear them, they wore them wrong. Tried taking it to OSHA, but they closed my case without properly following up on it, just took my manager's word and some staged photos at face value. Store got temporarily shut down due to multiple employees getting sick a couple months after I quit. The cherry on top was putting up with all that bullshit while being called an "essential worker" and making less money than people on unemployment.

It’s finally completed: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bZ6nZn6Mo7Cqs3U.htmlsi=ApjPQPFFV1caJIz1

My elderly mother got a job at one because my parents were really desperate for money. The DG was so bad. My mom was never actually alone, but she was the only one who worked. The manager and her buddy just hung out and watched UKposts in the office. Manager bragged about how much money she made, and would loudly tell the employees and all customers about her VERY far right views (we’re in MA, so not quite as common as other places). Absolutely atrocious person. My mom was scheduled over times she couldn’t come in either, and would get in trouble for it. My mom quit, she decided she’d rather be dead poor than work for that atrocious organization.

My supermarket offered "tuition assistance for college," making being a cashier a "great investment." They fail to tell you it's $2,500/yr, capped at $20,000, requires a full year of near full time employment, and is only paid to you after you pay for classes on your own up front.

@@ChristinaR404 YES the scheduling is wild. I would have to go into work on my days off to learn my new schedule and sometimes I was scheduled for that evening and the manager wouldn't even tell anyone. Or they would do the schedule at the last minute, cal and say "hey you're working tomorrow morning". A total nightmare company!

@@scifirealism5943 I love that they expect us to work full time and somehow make time for our classes... And absolutely garbage amount of money considering how wildly expensive college fees are! $2000 covers the cost of some books

welcome to corporate america. If it costs us money we ain't doing it. Fuck your well being!

This is the way.

Craziness

Strain, it's despicable.

Wtf

Worked at the dollar store and it was horrible, made 7.25 an hour and then keyholder got me to 7.50 an hour. Covid came, I quit and then got unemployment. My 2 kids and I could actually save and allowed me to find a better paying job. I now work from home and make 19 an hour. I tell every dg employee of my job and how they can do it to. Fu-k dg the worst company in the whole world

7.50 in 2019 Is ridiculous

That's every single company lmao

Agree. It looks so natural and convincing

I’m not American, I’m not familiar with these shops, but the FIRST thing I thought about when the over-full aisles and store rooms was shown was “that’s a fire hazard waiting to happen” 😱

Good on your local FD. I wonder if the store pays the workers when that day of catch up comes around. Can't believe DS hasn't said screw it and shut down the store themselves.

​@@rosey_ie Biggest thing really to blame is the warehouse. They send us way to much. There are items that we havent recieved in months to a year while they give us same items over and over again. Our new Ceo which he came back from retirement is going to fix things.

You live in Western NY? Our fire department does the same thing. Just wondering if it's the same store of if this is a regular occurrence

@@rosey_ie What is the retail shopping experience like where you live ? And where is it ? But I've been thinking the American indulgent addiction to brick and motar "Lets go Shopping" needs to go the way of the dodo . While the traditional stock the shelves and let people peruse them will still be needed for some things. Many things could move to a virtual shopping experience , and then pick up your packaged order at locations , if not using delivery systems. Also communities should start setting up library type systems for many items we only need on a temporary basis. Ultimately consumerism as is ... is caused by the consumers habits . So the retailer side is merely exploiting a weakness of choice people make .

1/100th seems generous. I doubt they could handle a cash register at a fully staffed store, so at the conditions they leave their employees at they'd have a mental breakdown within a minute. Two tops.

Have you guys ever met execs? They’re typically not in charge of shit unless their competent enough to work their way up there. The two richest people I know also happen to be the two hardest working people I know. One is bringing in 2mil and the other over 5 mil a year. They handle extremely stressful situations that are a lot more difficult than a cash register.

@@dasonhandjryour friends are small potatoes compared to these people. We’re talking BILLIONS, not just single digit millions.

@@dasonhandjr keep licking that boot.

And? You don't have to work at dollar tree. You don't have to work any job you don't like. This is the United States. You can move up. You can educate yourself.

I worked briefly at a DG last year, and that anti-union video was hilarious to me for all the scare tactics it used. "Did you know that unions ask for a FEE to be a part of them?! You wouldn't want THAT, would you?!" Utter ghouls.

Businesses aren't charities

as a current DG employee i literally screamed when that fucking guy from the union busting CBL popped up. i have a video of that same one on my phone too lol. i was like "gotta film this shit" as it went on for fucking ever saying over and over and over how a union would make it harder to have our voices heard (even about schedule changes, which like, is that even true?). they claim unions "have become like multi-million dollar corporations" off of dues taking from your (already too small) paycheck.... standing in front of a truck with the giant dollar general logo in the side like do you fucking hear yourselves?? god re-watching that CBL again is making me angry

Yes, your recelection is correct. They also just kept repeating that they wanted to keep good relations with management.

​@@authenticallysuperficial9874 No one I know has a problem with companies making a profit. But ignoring basic human rights is not the way to do it. A couple of percentage points less profit can change a horror story into a community asset.

Mom's boss saw competition. It was a bigger threat to her boss than inept employees and chronic mishaps from an understaffed store.

I am an atheist. I don't believe in God. There is no proof that God exists. I use logic and evidence to form my opinions about the world. I don't find any convincing arguments for the existence of God.

I hope if she hasn’t retired that she’s found a job that appreciates her work ethic.

Your mom isn't supposed to sacrifice her free time for work. We work to live, not live to work.

oy piss off Karl @@karlwithak.

If you know you know Dave Chappelle

I've been in quite a few dollar stores over the years, but I've never seen one as clean, spacious, well-lit, and organized as the one in that commercial.... usually they look like some kind of dimly-lit post-apocalyptic warzone with that low-key "eau de garbage dump" kinda smell o.O

I always laugh at the back of their trucks on the highway with the oh so properly dressed mother daughter duo doing their shopping. No tats, no hair colors, no pajama bottoms 😂😂

Glad you survived THAT Q_Q

@@Ramsey276one Thank you!! After three years there, my sanity was about to snap. :(

Wait wasn't federal minimum $7.25 even back then? Were they paying you illegally low wages?

omg why the fuk would you stay or work there all that time

​@@graceamelia4840 2013 minimum wage was $7.25, but it's not surprising they were underpaying her. Wage theft actually dwarfs all other forms of theft combined.

That manager guy plays bad managers of stores quite well and convincingly. He was the manager in that Dane Cook movie "Employee of the Month", which was actually pretty good for a silly, slapstick and adolescent humour comedy. If people liked the TV comedy Superstore, I would say they would also like Employee of the Month.

the really funny thing with the dollar bucket sketch is I bet they paid a dollar general to film in one of their locations, looks like real windows and the exterior is on point

Real tho