Things my boyfriend just told me about the dollar general he's been supervising/working the night shift at for the past 3 months:

-they do not have any fire alarms in the building

-there is an app that comes up on their handheld inventory scanners that asks them to do things like check the freezer temperatures and make sure the fire extinguishers and fire exits are unblocked but there is no way to denote an issue, your only option to proceed with your job on that device is to press "yes"

-the heater to the store is broken so they have to close mid-day this entire week

-he works evenings so he either has to not work (unpaid) or be on call each day to scoot his schedule up to afternoons until they get the repair contractor to come back (he has been calling off)

-the store manager asked if he would bring in his personal kerosene heater from his house to the store

-the store with a ton of clutter and no fire alarms and blocked off fire exits/extinguishers

-??????????????

That's just his particular store, but lest you forget DG is an evil company for 1) putting a ton of rural groceries out of business and essentially replacing them with convenience stores, 2) labor violations n' such, 3) extremely misleading prices that end up being like 30% more expensive per unit than a regular grocery store

he said in the time he's been there they've changed the size of the dog food bags to be smaller for the same price *more than once*. He's been there 3 months, so it's not even on a quarterly scale.

Other fun things: having multiple types of one item but instead of keeping them together for easy price comparison, spreading them out throughout the store so that you're essentially hiding the ones at the best price point in unexpected places. The example was the best deal on lint rollers was actually hidden in a weird place in the laundry supply section, whereas several expensive products were in displays up front. It's down to such a science apparently that they bring in outside contractors to do the store product sets and only let the staff restock things in existing spaces.

Have you hated a corporation today? Tis the season. :)