I was a store manager of a Dollar Tree for a little over two years during the pandemic. I resigned about 8 months ago. I took the job when my freelance business dried up. I applied for a cashier job just to fill the financial void being out of work caused but they looked at my resume called me up and asked me if I would consider being a manager. The money wasn't great but enough for me to stack some savings. So I said sure I had managed a store when I was in my 20's I thought it would be fun.

Boy was I wrong.

It was the first time I have worked for someone else in three decades, and the first time ever for a corporation. The experience made me more of a socialist than ever. I was confronted with unmitigated greed and a don't give a $#!t for the worker bees attitude coming from the higher-ups. It's hateful.

When I hear people going on and on about kids being lazy and not wanting to work all I can say is the way people are allowed to be treated and the assumptions made about people working retail all I can say is GFY. I don't blame them and I am on their side 100% I didn't mind the job and I loved my staff. We all worked hard at that thankless job. They were the best thing about it. The company sucked!

The Dollar Store model is needed in some communities not only for people on a budget but also for a lot of small businesses in town. The company just doesn't want to staff the stores even when they were making record profits. They raise the prices and rather than give raises with the profits they want to give us stock shares instead.

I am an older worker so I have additional income but the younger ones didn't have that and stock shares meant little to them because they had immediate needs, not some future promise that may or may not pan out.