Dollar General has a dedicated squeezing chicken to summon a cashier to the register

[u/jnadols1]

[u/timmys_taint]

All Dollar General employees are Stock Clerks. They run the registers in their spare time.

[u/crawlmanjr → u/timmys_taint]

Worked at DG for 4 months and was reprimanded because I only put away 3 rolltainers on a Friday where I was the only person running register.

[u/shittyspacesuit → u/crawlmanjr]

It's shitty that stores like Dollar General and Dollar Tree will keep store understaffed on purpose, when they both make so much money.

[u/Secret-Plant-1542 → u/shittyspacesuit]

In my city, a homeless person tried to steal something. And the cashier charged at him, and threaten to beat him up.

Like dude, you're being paid $13 an hour to stock, cashier and you want to play security?

He was the only employee in the store too.

[u/Rolling_Duty_420 → u/Secret-Plant-1542]

Boi you do NOT want to go to the dollar tree on Venice Beach

[u/ctjameson → u/Rolling_Duty_420]

Boi you do NOT want to go to the dollar tree on Venice Beach

FTFY. There’s a lot better beaches around here not covered in crazy folks. Decent food and stuff in Venice but it’s more inland anyway. Dockweiler is just down the road and has plenty of room and way less crazies. Lol.

[u/mattenthehat → u/ctjameson]

Lol nobody goes to Venice beach for the actual beach. But I challenge you to name anywhere in the world with more entertaining peoplewatching

[u/redshores → u/ctjameson]

Folks from out of town go to Venice specifically to see the crazies. My brother was visiting 15 years ago and saw Dennis Rodman acting up in Venice and still talks about it to this day.

[u/Rolling_Duty_420 → u/ctjameson]

I meeeeean you gotta admit though that the crazies make for the best artists. I’d not recommend it but id not go to any other beach in LA.

Regardless you’re absolutely correct. I’m the weirdo lmfao.

[u/ctjameson → u/Rolling_Duty_420]

We still go to Venice all the time. But we never go to on the beach itself. Lol. Menottis is my jam and their Spanish Latte is life changing and is my usual “one sweet drink every now and then.”

Highly recommend Belle’s Beach House too.

[u/-AdhesiveAndy- → u/Secret-Plant-1542]

When I lived in Tucson 20 years ago, a Circle K employee was killed while chasing a guy who ran out with beer. I feel bad for the dude, but seriously? You're gonna risk life and limb for $15 worth of beer?

[u/AlwaysSoTiredx → u/-AdhesiveAndy-]

I lived in Tucson back in '08 during the Great Recession. The amount of people who simp for the ultra wealthy there was astounding. Also, there was no empathy for those who were homeless or on the verge of it. Rights and resources for the poor were nonexistent. I personally witnessed police brutality on multiple occasions. I saw a woman start to give birth in an ER waiting room because she didn't have insurance. The triage nurse yelled that she would get a bed "when it's bad enough" whatever that means. I left after that.

I personally went through some shit, and I don't want to trauma dump here, but ultimately I became a socialist after being a libertarian because of my experiences in Tucson during the recession.

So yeah, I totally believe some guy in Tucson decided to run after a shoplifter. People are brainwashed there.

[u/hclark010304 → u/Secret-Plant-1542]

DG employee here, we are absolutely not allowed to chase or stop a thief. You can ask them if they need a basket for the items they hid in their hoodie or something like that. Or like last week a lady tried to steal candy and a toy by putting it around her toddler in the shopping cart. She proceeds to pay for toilet paper and as she goes to leave I asked her if she was planning to pay for the candy with ebt (food stamps) and she said omg I forgot and handed it over but I had to point out the toy as well. Thank goodness the little girl didn’t start screaming crying.

[u/Drnk_watcher → u/Secret-Plant-1542]

Part of the problem is that employees wages are so low. A person making $13-15 an hour at Dollar General is more likely than not to only be a paycheck or two away from homelessness themselves. Which puts them in a position where they'll follow any company line to keep the job. This includes taking a stand for the corporate overlords to stop homeless people from stealing because if they catch you allowing theft no matter how trivial you're out of there.

Until enough people stand up and take back some of the control and leverage for the workers those things will continue to happen because everyone is trying to stay one step ahead of not being in a worse situation.

[u/MayoftheFlowers → u/Secret-Plant-1542]

lol meanwhile at my store, I told all my employees to just let them walk out with stolen shit. Why even bother when DG made 2.5 billion dollars in 2021 while we get paid a barely living wage under the constant threat of being fired. As an ASM of DG I long for the day that humans finally wake up and cast of the chains of slavery and have real fucking revolution again before we are killed by corporations/conservatives for wealth. Remember you will always be closer to being homeless than a millionaire, have class solidarity people.

[u/Thorebore → u/MayoftheFlowers]

A friend of mine worked at DG and they tried to write him up for breaking a mop handle. They went back and watched surveillance video and accused him of mopping too aggressively. The district manager and store manager were all in in this. He asked the store manager how old the mop handle was and she couldn’t remember ever replacing it and she had been there 10 years. He refused to sign the write up and they just kind of forgot about it. It sounds like a very bad place to work. They were actually reviewing video over a mop handle.

[u/AnotherLightInTheSky → u/Thorebore]

This is fucking hilarious

[u/shorty6049 → u/MayoftheFlowers]

As someone who's been feeling real shitty for a couple of years now... It definitely feels like corporations are already starting to kill us. I'm not planning on doing anything but man do I feel depressed every time I try to buy groceries or literally anything else lately. My local Dollar general's shelves are full of brand new stickers that have been stuck over all the old stickers, increasing the prices on pretty much everything in the store by like 50 cents or more. My brother had been telling me that Oscar Mayer turkey franks were good lately, So I went there one day to grab some. New sticker says 6.40 a pack. What's behind it? And the old sticker was like $4... Ended up grab a $1.50 pack of armour hot dogs instead and just left the store feeling like shit.

Just feels like a game lately. Work with America says " how much more can we take from them before they all start killing themselves?"

[u/MayoftheFlowers → u/shorty6049]

Dude, I fucking feel you. Those were my exact thoughts as I was putting up price changes last week, especially when I got to the sticker for those Oscar hot dogs. Like that's almost the federal wage for an hour, an hour of your life just for a pack of hotdogs. The fuck are we doing as a species?

[u/DOGO8991 → u/Secret-Plant-1542]

Imagine caring about anything besides your paycheck arriving on time in a shit job like that

[u/IsRude → u/shittyspacesuit]

CVS and Walgreens do this, too. Fucking ridiculously understaffed, and the staff that's there is also doing the job of any upper management. Shit companies to work for.

[u/MistyShadowWolf → u/shittyspacesuit]

I was a key holder at Dollar General. Specifically night shift. Which most of the time only had two people, one for register and one as manager for the evening.

I have multiple health issues, including sciatica. And my boss was one of those older boomer types of people, the "no one wants to work" types.

She'd get pissed I could only put away one or two rolltainers in an evening. Not a word about how I had to fix literally everyone else's fuck ups and put stuff back where it belonged, had to remove stuff from boxes because one of the other employees was too lazy too, and was being called to do shit at the register constantly.

I finally walked off mid shift when she said she was going to lock the break room and cut off access to the soda and snacks I had to manage my blood sugar, so the truck can get done because apparently everyone is "too distracted" by the break room. Because of my schedule I was never able to get a doctor's visit scheduled to get a note, but I had multiple instances where I had to take my break early because of my blood sugar suddenly crashing so hard I nearly passed out. She refused to allow anything but water out on the floor. Looked at my coworker who was on register, said I was sorry, and left my keys and name tag there and walked home. Now I'm blacklisted but idgaf. Because that boss was one of the nicer Dollar General bosses.

Fuck Dollar General.

[u/spacewalk__ → u/MistyShadowWolf]

She refused to allow anything but water out on the floor.

i would never go to a dollar general if i saw the employee drinking soda, i mean the nerve

[u/MistyShadowWolf → u/spacewalk__]

No, Dollar General employees are the finest in the land, they must drink only the purest of water to prove it!

[u/rahnster_wright → u/spacewalk__]

I was thinking at least they allow water. I used to work at a grocery store that didn't allow even water at the registers.

[u/MistyShadowWolf → u/rahnster_wright]

Oh ouch. Seriously shit like that should be considered inhumane and get them massively fined at the least.

[u/AlexandriaLitehouse → u/rahnster_wright]

Same. I ended up getting a gigantic kidney stone that was stuck in my ureter and made my left kidney shut down. Most likely because I was so thirsty by the time I had a break or left that I rehydrated too quickly, confusing my kidneys. The time I had remaining there I whipped out my doctor's note saying I could have water like a detective showing their badge in an episode of Law and Order any chance I got.

[u/notabigmelvillecrowd → u/rahnster_wright]

Yep, when I worked at H&M we weren't allowed water, I was always fucking dehydrated and sick when I worked there. I was a merchandiser, so I was lifting stuff all day, and running up and down stairs, it was awful. You had to tell someone if you were leaving the floor to get water, and every time I did I'd get that look and that sarcastic tone, like, "oh, you need water again?" Stupid weak human bodies!

[u/jeneric84 → u/shittyspacesuit]

Not like they’re paying their associates more on average like Aldi either. And their stores are outfitted about as cheaply as you can possibly get.

[u/14S14D → u/shittyspacesuit]

That’s a major part of how they make so much money. I think we’d all be fine with less dollar generals around but they’ve expanded to just about every small town across the country by now because of that strategy. To be fair, everyone had to drive 20 miles to Walmart for groceries in my town and surrounding towns before DG came through because the family owned markets got shut down 20 years ago by Walmart. DG is killing it in that aspect and they’re low traffic so it’s not a big deal to staff one person in the store.

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/shittyspacesuit]

Target does too. I used to work on the sales floor there and had the same problem the previous poster did. We were expected to backup cashier whenever they asked for us, and couldn't turn off our lane light and leave until we had less than 2 people in line. So sometimes we would get stuck up there for hours, unable to do any of our other work. And then we would get reprimanded for not finishing our own work.

Most large chain companies run this way. Happy to run with a bare minimum crew, overworking and stressing out employees, making customers wait longer than necessary, all to make a little extra money for shareholders.

[u/Kermit_El_Froggo_ → u/shittyspacesuit]

that's HOW the make money, is because their business relies on not having a lot of employees. So they keep their prices super low and people want to shop there. Same thing with Aldi, their prices are so low because their employees do everything

[u/truck149 → u/crawlmanjr]

Some notable experiences during my stint:

I got reprimanded for calling my ride from my cellphone after the doors were locked. Everyone, including the store manager, was goofing off and playing dodgeball with items in the store, 5 minutes before we were done with overstock.

My manager didn't knock on the only bathroom we had and used her master key to open the bathroom door while I was using it.

/r/talesfromretail

[u/wildgoldchai → u/truck149]

I’m convinced that all retail managers are idiots who love power. Sure, YMMV but the trait is still there

[u/czerniana → u/crawlmanjr]

Yup. I often had a line the entire shift at the Dollar Tree and they’d still get pissed at me for not getting more stock out. Like, wtf am I supposed to do??

[u/itisrainingweiners → u/timmys_taint]

All Dollar General employees are Stock Clerks. They run the registers in their spare time.

Family Dollar, too, at least the one next to my work. Last week they just straight up locked the front door so they could go unload a truck in the back and not have to worry about getting ruined with no one around. There was no sign on the door and I ended up sending someone over to scope the place out because I was afraid they were being held hostage or something (It's not a great area.)

It's such a shame, this particular store seems like it has a great manager, he's been there over 10 years and his staff turnover is really low, which says a lot about him.

[u/IamScottGable → u/itisrainingweiners]

I worked some holiday hours at a dollar tree and told then outright that I won't ring and wisely they didn't push (2nd job). I would help out with bagging stuff and prepping bags for the ringer but I just can't do it for some reason.

[u/mikeyHustle → u/timmys_taint]

It is a truly depressing place to work, let alone to shop.

[u/myassholealt → u/timmys_taint]

Lots of retail places do this now. You have floor workers with a long list of tasks to get done on the sales floor and stockroom during their shift. But they're also the cashiers on staff.

So customers at the checkout are annoyed that there's no one to ring them up when sales floor people are on the floor.

Customers on the sales floor are annoyed there's no one to help them cause everyone got called to the registers.

Managers are mad cause the task lists are not getting finished.

And the worker is overwhelmed/stressed/annoyed/burnt out. All for minimum wage or a couple dollars above it, but still not enough income to meet their expenses without needing another job and/or government benefits.

And then you have people calling them lazy for not wanting to work these jobs, or telling them they don't deserve more money. Calling them stupid and not ambitious cause this is the job they're working. And telling them they deserve this because this is the job they're working.

[u/lovepig1337 → u/timmys_taint]

They sell cigarettes at dollar general?

[u/PM_ME_YIFF_PICS → u/lovepig1337]

absolutely. they got everything, their parents are divorced

[u/JoyPatterson → u/lovepig1337]

They sell everything

[u/lonelyclique → u/lovepig1337]

think you are making a clerks joke? however, they absolutely do sell cigs and some sell alxohol

[u/LittleForeskinAnnie → u/lonelyclique]

No alcohol at my local DG.

They have fresh produce though. I was blown away when I saw that lol.

Most expensive “dollar” store ever.

[u/justanothrsomeone → u/LittleForeskinAnnie]

One Dollar General employee kindly informed me that they are not a dollar store, they are a general store.

[u/Vega_Kotes → u/justanothrsomeone]

Yeah, back when I worked there I could count on at least 10 or more people a week complaining that the dollar store didn't stock mostly dollar items so I just started pointing out that we were a general store that had a dollar aisle.

[u/Green_Message_6376 → u/justanothrsomeone]

'I got kicked out of a general store because I asked for something specific'. -Stephen Wright.

[u/threesixs → u/LittleForeskinAnnie]

In my experience they are still cheaper than every other place except some stuff at Walmart.

[u/iUsedtoHadHerpes → u/threesixs]

It depends what you're after. Most stuff there is marked up in my experience, but some stuff is cheaper. A lot of it just seems cheaper but is in a smaller package too, so a lot of times it's a worse value.

[u/_lippykid → u/timmys_taint]

My local store recently installed self checkouts.. seems like I’m the only person who uses it. Before they did I’d spend 2 minutes collecting products, and 10 minutes trying to find someone to run the register. I do sympathize though. They do seem to ask a lot of their staff

[u/MakeupandFlipcup → u/timmys_taint]

I was just reading about how they are always in trouble with OSHA, millions in fines and their stores remain unsafe for workers.

emergency exits locked/blocked, boxes and crap stacked everywhere etc

[u/Champigne → u/timmys_taint]

Dollar General is one of the worst stores I've ever been to.

[u/goldbricker83 → u/timmys_taint]

At really badly managed ones, they don’t keep up with stocking and just leave pallets and carts full of stuff in all the extremely narrow aisles.

[u/Iwonatoasteroven]

All the times I did that and no one came.

[u/Dicky_Penisburg → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

You probably just needed to do it a little longer.

[u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

A few more times as well.

[u/KendrickMaynard → u/Mr-Sister-Fister21]

Once more, with feeling.

[u/guy_incognito_mode → u/Mr-Sister-Fister21]

Faster faster!!

[u/[deleted] → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

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[u/CaryWhit → u/[deleted]]

Just put on your best pajamas and house shoes and go shopping!

[u/Nomad_86 → u/CaryWhit]

I thought I was the only one. Lmao! Literally roll outa bed and hit up Dollar Store for snacks. 😂

[u/Pyroechidna1 → u/[deleted]]

Dollar General is the calling card of late-stage capitalism, come to pick the bones of a town when there's nothing else left

[u/TrentonTallywacker → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

When I did it the staff came prematurely, didn’t think they were that close

[u/Temporarily__Alone → u/TrentonTallywacker]

They’re always right on the edge in my experience.

[u/1Eternallylost → u/Temporarily__Alone]

Back when I was 15, a stiff wind is all it took.

[u/Young_Slight → u/Temporarily__Alone]

They don't hire workers without skills. They want the best experience for work.

[u/Internetallstar → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

Try it with the other hand.

[u/Neans888 → u/Internetallstar]

But sit on it for awhile first so it feels like a stranger.

[u/Alcarine → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

Choke it harder

[u/BIB2000 → u/Alcarine]

Spank and pull it a few times as well.

[u/bioberserkr2 → u/BIB2000]

BOP IT, TWIST IT, PULL IT

[u/1Eternallylost → u/bioberserkr2]

Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew

[u/[deleted] → u/Alcarine]

Cheryl Tunt liked this

[u/HappyDay2290 → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

You have to choke your own chicken.

[u/peacemaker2007 → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

Because you weren't doing it at the counter

[u/gahlo → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

SSRI issues.

[u/reddituser_05 → u/Iwonatoasteroven]

"no one came" - you must be doing it wrong. See a doctor.

[u/Friendly_Ram]

Ours has a pig. I'm glad it's not just ours that's wonky.

[u/redpenquin → u/Friendly_Ram]

It's Dollar General. They're all fucking wonky and running on the shattered, sweaty, exhausted dreams of maybe, if extremely lucky, 2 run-ragged employees.

The only time you see a Dollar General that isn't a wonky mess is a newly opened DG, wherein corporate decides to try and trick the customer into thinking that the store is going to be extremely organized, clean, and staffed with enough people to keep things running smoothly. And a month after opening, they drop the charade and it's back to the hectic, cluttered, makeshift way that is all Dollar Generals.

[u/oyisagoodboy → u/redpenquin]

They have a terrible model. The cashiers are supposed to put the trucks away, stock the shelves, clean and organize the store, and wait on customers. There is no overnight stocking. They pay terrible wages and only allow so many hours per store for employees to work. I had a friend that managed one once. They said they would get about 120 hours a week to divide among employees. Managers are expected to work about 50 hours. Which leaves 70 hours to split between all other employees of the store. Not many places thrive when when employees can't get full time hours while being paid $10 dollars an hour and having a constantly changing schedule. I have never walked into a Dollar General and not seen the people working there look exhausted and defeated.

[u/TimeZarg → u/oyisagoodboy]

Dollar Tree runs on a similar model. Store manager who presumably gets full time or more hours handling all the management shit, and most of the other employees you'll see are part-timers getting 15-25 hours a week or something.

Normally it wouldn't be that bad, if you could arrange to have set days so you could juggle another part-time job on other days, but companies using that kind of model are notorious for giving zero shits about what days the employees want/have available to work. So it's pretty fucking rough trying to make anything work with a part-time job under that system.

[u/Tartaras1 → u/TimeZarg]

Since they made the schedule a week in advance, we had to give two weeks notice if we wanted to request a day off. If you wanted time off after the schedule was posted, you had to find someone to switch with you.

[u/Questionably_Chungly → u/redpenquin]

Yeah idk how Dollar General is a successful company. They keep opening new stores that are, no joke, within a 10 minute drive of one another. And each time the stores are both total disaster areas within weeks of opening. Disheveled, boxes everywhere, poor stock, dirty, dingy; the works. And it’s never that surprising because there’s normally only 1 or 2 employees ever in the store.

I don’t get how it’s a successful business model.

[u/Hammerhead3229 → u/Questionably_Chungly]

Two of them in my town were shutdown by the fire marshal because they had too much freight blocking the aisles and doors. Now you'd expect for them to be shutdown for a couple days to solve the problem... Nope. They've been shut down for months now. Last I saw they had a dumpster out front where everyone tossed out perishables that expired, besides that nothing was done. Store still full, no idea if/when it'll ever open again.

Oh but they are opening a new one 15 minutes away from all this! Can't even take care of the stores they have. DG is a fucking joke of a company and I feel for any poor soul that works there.

[u/CrashyBoye → u/Hammerhead3229]

Same here! The one closest to me has been shut down three times for spans varying from one day to several weeks for the same exact thing. There’s another one about 30 minutes from me that has been “temporarily”closed since August 2022.

I feel so bad for the people working in there.

[u/TheAmazingDisgrace → u/Questionably_Chungly]

They are often cheaper than rural grocery stores, and they work to complement those stores with general merchandise.

Sometimes they are someone's only access to a store that isn't a gas station/convenience store within 20-40+ mins

[u/UnwaveringFlame → u/TheAmazingDisgrace]

My town has three small grocery stores, a Walmart, ten fast food places, and three dollar stores within a mile of our DG, not counting all the small family owned places. People still flock to it like they're selling golden goose eggs. I refuse to even step foot in there, at least our Walmart pays decently and gives their employees more than ten hours a week. There's another DG about 10 miles away and it actually is the only place to buy goods outside of a gas station, so I don't blame anyone for shopping at that one.

[u/Seldarin → u/TheAmazingDisgrace]

Yep, that's why they do well here.

Nearest place to buy any sort of food is a gas station 4 miles up the road. If you like paying $4-$5 a can for vienna sausages. Next closest place is the DG 14 miles up the road. Next closest place is Wal-Mart 25 or 26 away. Nearest non-Wal-Mart place that isn't batshit rural grocery store prices or "The meat is green, better repackage it for next week and put it on sale." type places is like 80+ miles one way.

[u/RiseFromYourGrav → u/TheAmazingDisgrace]

The closest one to me is like 5 minutes from a Target in one direction and 5 minutes from a grocery store in another direction. I went there once because they had a really good deal on gift cards, but...I don't get it.

[u/markydsade → u/RiseFromYourGrav]

There is a convenience going to a store you don’t have park and walk a long distance. Their prices on housewares, cleaning products, and holiday decor are decent but not bargains. Their OTC medications are the best deal anywhere. They have acetaminophen, ibuprofen and the like far cheaper than any drug store or even Walmart.

[u/blacksoxing → u/Questionably_Chungly]

They’re successful as they operate heavily in “food deserts” where a fully fledged grocery store isn’t present. If you have many of them they feel Walmart or any other store isn’t coming to your area, as of course you’d just go there instead if you had it.

Basically, they know what they’re doing and know you’d stop in there if it’s a block away from a mass population vs 3 miles to the nearest Krogers or whatnot

[u/zackattackz → u/Questionably_Chungly]

They thrive off of poor people unable to afford a car to drive to another store. At least in certain cities, look up "food desert".

[u/grokthis1111 → u/Questionably_Chungly]

it's low overhead.

[u/breatheb4thevoid → u/grokthis1111]

Margins here are real juicy, and just look at that totally sustainable YoY...

[u/gsfgf → u/Questionably_Chungly]

They put them in towns that are too poor to support a Walmart. People have no other practical option for a quick stop.

Also, the one they just built in my family's ancestral hometown is walking distance from the poorest part of town, so some of their customers might not even have reliable transportation to get to Walmart.

[u/jeanwearinfool → u/Questionably_Chungly]

It's not, the owner won a billion dollars in the lottery and DG is their gag project.

[u/bry2w → u/Questionably_Chungly]

this is true, where i live it’s a 20+ minute drive to any town with real stores but within the last 5ish years i’d guess they built a DG here. then i left on deployment last year and came home to find another one that had been built in the town right next to ours

[u/Mylaptopisburningme → u/redpenquin]

Dollar General was the only place to sell the rerelease of Jolt Cola about 5-7 years ago. I had never been to one before, but went for the Jolt... Couldn't find it, glad I asked, it wasn't with the sodas, it was with the cans of spaghetti... Makes sense.

[u/The_Lord_Humongous → u/redpenquin]

Mine has 1 run-ragged employee and the Karen night asst. mgr. who fucks off to who-knows-where (the employee actually said this once "where does she go? She's not out stocking? She's not in the office? I'm the only one in here running the place usually...."

[u/CaryWhit → u/The_Lord_Humongous]

Ours had the coolest old lesbian who leaned very masculine and looked like she was drug out of an art festival in New Mexico. I loved the 50 years of Marlboro reds voice and her absolute hatred of corporate but love for her customers. She was quite a lovable character. I would say she gave her best 75% to the job.

[u/chanciehome → u/CaryWhit]

Helpers like these are always my very favorite. I'll honestly stop going to a shop when they retire/move on to another job.

[u/RaccoonRazor → u/redpenquin]

The AG in Ohio also had to shut down Dollar General for persistent price-fixing

[u/southernfriedfossils → u/Friendly_Ram]

Ours has a squeaky bottle of off brand Mountain Dew, "Mountain Thunder" or something.

[u/AnitaTighterHole → u/Friendly_Ram]

Came here to find this comment. I thought squeeze pig was standard

[u/that_guy_you_kno → u/Friendly_Ram]

Ours has a receiver for an old wireless landline that you can press a "call" button on and it rings the phone somewhere.

[u/Soup-a-doopah → u/Friendly_Ram]

Ding the bell
Or squeeze the hog
For service
Thanks

[u/3-DMan → u/Friendly_Ram]

This reminds me of when a looong time ago Radio Shack sold a pig you put in your fridge that oinked when you opened the fridge door

[u/CiggyBones → u/Friendly_Ram]

Ours uses a pig as well.

[u/FormerChange]

That’s hilarious. What’s the sound the chicken makes?!?

[u/Crawlerado → u/FormerChange]

it’s peaceful and melodic

[u/banned_after_12years → u/Crawlerado]

I knew exactly what video it would be before I opened it.

[u/eklatea → u/banned_after_12years]

damn i guessed the wrong video

[u/Shirobane → u/eklatea]

https://youtu.be/F2qQIR1jZxw

[u/Cosmocision → u/eklatea]

I was expecting for the one where they put it under the sink

[u/tuurtl → u/Cosmocision]

I was thinking of that one video of the japanese guy who attached a vacuum cleaner to a bunch of rubber chickens.

Edit: this guy

[u/eklatea → u/Cosmocision]

exactly that's the one i was thinking about!!

[u/Iamblikus → u/Crawlerado]

Vine was humanity’s best moment.

[u/puppy1994c → u/Iamblikus]

RIP Vine…. Promoted real creativity. I also loved how you could just watch all these great Vine compilations on YouTube, you didn’t even need a Vine account. But then I think, maybe that’s why it failed… :(

[u/iamtruetomyself9 → u/Iamblikus]

Yes, Vine is what TikTok tries to be but can never achieve

[u/aSharkNamedHummus → u/iamtruetomyself9]

Vine was so great because the 6-second limit really forced people to be creative and precise

[u/u8eR → u/iamtruetomyself9]

TikTok set out to be a giant advertising platform, and I'd say they turned out pretty successful.

[u/Technical-Outside408 → u/Crawlerado]

They back away in fear.

[u/IWasGregInTokyo → u/Crawlerado]

Needs to be paired with a beautiful woman.

[u/BrewtusMaximus1 → u/Crawlerado]

It really really is

[u/With_MontanaMainer → u/FormerChange]

Ahem, I saved this 5 years ago. Here is the chicken 'singing' Get Lucky... and You're Welcome

https://v.redd.it/8wlup3da5zd01

[u/waltjrimmer → u/FormerChange]

Something like this: https://youtu.be/_H4vwkGvWjE

[u/TaohRihze → u/waltjrimmer]

I rarely say this to this type of links, but sincerely thank you for enricking my day.

[u/larssonthebear → u/waltjrimmer]

god dammit

[u/Mustysailboat → u/waltjrimmer]

I got to say, I know auto tuning was used, but that’s a perfect singing, and phrasing(timing) , very well done

[u/Vitztlampaehecatl → u/FormerChange]

https://youtu.be/IniwqWIMMlw

[u/a_stitch_in_lime → u/Vitztlampaehecatl]

Adam Savage is my favorite person ever. Jump to 20m 50s for the end result but this whole build is amazing.

[u/LBD420]

yeah cause they force the sole cashier to also full stock the store

[u/3-DMan → u/LBD420]

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

[u/BloodKelp → u/3-DMan]

37! My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!

[u/kutjebefneuken → u/BloodKelp]

In a row?

[u/TryingNot2BeToxic → u/LBD420]

Seriously... DG needs unionized sooooo badly. I have never met a DG employee who wasn't overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated.

/edit - I have met one of the upper management who drive around between stores throughout the state. He was very clearly overpaid, underworked, and overappreciated.

[u/Judgesword → u/TryingNot2BeToxic]

I work at a DG.. sadly, I have for 5 years because no one will respond back to my application. If we tried to unionize, they would just shut the store down and call it a loss.

Iirc, they get a fine from osha yearly for not having safe stores because it is cheaper than fixing the stores.

Im like, 90% sure my ankles/knees are fucked for life (im 27) because of having to stand for 4-9 hrs on solid concrete. Not even one of those crappy little pads to stand on at the register.

[u/triplesalmon → u/Judgesword]

The stores are regularly shut down by fire and building staff because they are not safe. The company does not hire enough staff to manage the freight and safe exits are blocked constantly. Every few weeks like clockwork another is shut down.

[u/Judgesword → u/triplesalmon]

I wish the company would crash & burn.. but too many people "need" the store as it is the only thing around for miles.

[u/xXdeathstar101Xx → u/TryingNot2BeToxic]

Their business model just isn't sustainable, literally every single dollar general I've been to has been struggling in every aspect

[u/fart_nuts → u/xXdeathstar101Xx]

There's a reason they keep growing. I've never seen a dollar general employee in a hurry either. Customers and employees have an unspoken agreement that no one gives a shit, so if there's two people in line and you dont have 10 minutes then you just leave

[u/LittleForeskinAnnie → u/fart_nuts]

At ours you’re practically allowed to steal as long as you don’t make a big fuss.

Saw a dude walk up and grab grocery bags for his stolen goods lol.

[u/GucciGlocc → u/LittleForeskinAnnie]

I’m not getting stabbed by a crackhead for minimum wage just take the fucking tall boy bro

[u/Wxmike94]

Weird way to get their attention, but ok. unzips pants

[u/gatorbeetle → u/Wxmike94]

Yeah, I wouldn't be daring customers of "The General" to choke their chickens at the checkout ...might get messy

Edit ..typo

[u/I_DontRead_Replies → u/gatorbeetle]

To draw attention to an unnoticed line, Choke the Chicken to save some time.

[u/chatterwrack → u/Wxmike94]

This metaphor is aging so I wonder how many people get it. 😆

[u/Jazzlike_Chocolate_2 → u/chatterwrack]

That was my thought exactly. I’m 35 and knew exactly what this meant.

[u/Bilgerman → u/Jazzlike_Chocolate_2]

Fun fact, the Chunky Chicken on Rocko's Modern Life was going to be called "Chokey Chicken," but Nickelodeon thought that was too directly a masturbation reference and made them change it.

This fact made for, and by, man children born in the late 80's.

Edit: inaccurate, see /u/iggyiguana's comment below.

[u/iggyiguana → u/Bilgerman]

I remember it as Chokey Chicken. Don't remember it being changed. Especially since Heffer chokes in this episode, it made sense without the double meaning.

Edit: Apparently it started as Chokey Chicken and got renamed in later episodes.

[u/hipstershatehipsters → u/iggyiguana]

I was about to say, I totally remember it being Chokey’s Chicken. Not the only adult references in that show though. We had them all recorded on the vcr. Wish I could find those tapes. The episode with Spunky and the mop and did they play a board game or something called spank the monkey? Lmao

[u/shadowman2099 → u/Bilgerman]

The Chewy Chicken was in fact called the Chokey Chicken in the earlier seasons. It was wild the stuff that kid's shows could get away with before the Parental TV Guidelines.

[u/dmxrob]

Dollar General is one of the worst employers out there. Literally, they will have 1 person working in the store so it is impossible for them to take a break, use the restroom or have lunch. Horrid company and no doubt the only reason this is there is because there was 1 employee working trying to do everything.

[u/TryingNot2BeToxic → u/dmxrob]

DG really is despicable in this regard. Needs unionized, but is unlikely because they only ever staff like 1-2 people at a time and they don't have enough time to consider unionizing or tying their shoes or bathroom breaks or.. etc..

[u/dmxrob → u/TryingNot2BeToxic]

And don't get me started about food quality there. You think that ONE employee is checking temps or making sure that food is properly handled and stocked? There is no way I'd buy a food product from them - especially frozen or refrigerated.

[u/TryingNot2BeToxic → u/dmxrob]

Lol I def enjoy the $1 candy aisle at least. Good prices on cheap paper products too. But yeah.... Totally agreed on any kind of food product that's not shelf-stable.

[u/no_talent_ass_clown → u/dmxrob]

I'm alone? Awesome, fuck it, I'm closing the store for everything. Lunch, breaks, cleaning the toilet.... people will get checked out... eventually.

[u/OneEyedOneHorned]

When I worked at Dollar General, we had nothing like this so I bought one of those shop bells people could ring if there wasn't a cashier at the front. It was super cheap and I didn't mind spending a few dollars to be able to do my job easier.

I showed my boss the day after it arrived and he immediately said no. He said it was against store policy, that we should be walking up to the front while stocking every couple minutes to see if anyone was ready, and he couldn't, per store policy, allow any kind of device to do that part of our job for us and we can't buy things for the store. I said, "Well could I just use it on my shift? If it's an issue of buying things for the store, what if I just use it?"

He said no and wouldn't allow the bell or any toy of any kind to signal there was a customer at the front. We often had an issue of people getting angry because they would stand there until we saw them and we were the only person scheduled.

I later got fired for being too slow (and being sick too often but that's America for you.)

[u/JMccovery → u/OneEyedOneHorned]

He said it was against store policy, that we should be walking up to the front while stocking every couple minutes to see if anyone was ready,

This annoyed me so much when I worked at a DG.

It's as if those fucktards in Goodlettsville don't understand that doing so just makes stocking take longer.

At least half of Dollar General's problems could be eliminated by having at least 3 or 4 employees per shift.

[u/Judgesword → u/JMccovery]

The fucks in Goodlettsville have never set foot in a fucking store.

[u/FillYouWithPasta]

Because they are extremely understaffed

They need self checkout at DG already. All of ours do the same thing

Edit: I'm in SC, so we will most likely get self checkout when everyone else gets teleportation pods... we still can't buy alcohol on sunday...

Edit 2: I dont go outside. Apparently, DGs around here do have self checkout.

[u/cdsbigsby → u/FillYouWithPasta]

There actually is self checkout in the only Dollar General I ever go to, maybe it'll make its way to you. It's nice.

[u/TryingNot2BeToxic → u/cdsbigsby]

Lmao is yours out-of-order/non-functional about 50% of the time as well?

[u/GonzoVeritas → u/TryingNot2BeToxic]

More like 80% of the time.

[u/WutWhoSaidDat → u/cdsbigsby]

But if the self checkout gets to the other person then you won’t have it anymore😁

[u/ImFuckinUrDadTonight → u/FillYouWithPasta]

You can see cigs in the background of OP's photo. Ain't no self checkout for them. Thus, squeeze the chicken if you want smokes.

[u/Judgesword → u/FillYouWithPasta]

It isn't that we are understaffed. It is that they give us next to no hours. For my store of 9 people, they give us ~115 hrs. At least 32 go towards the 2 full-time people. So that is 64 taken up right there. The remaining 51 hrs are split among the remaining 6 employees (1 key holder and 5 sales associates). The managers are salary and their hours dont take away from the total.

[u/Superstroker823 → u/FillYouWithPasta]

Most have self checkout near me, but it's always out of order or only takes debit/credit

[u/NaturalPea5]

So they’re just perpetually understaffed everywhere

[u/cigarandcreamsoda]

That sign is just asking for trouble.

[u/Shaggytwig]

I wonder if the arrows weren't there at first, and they had to specify Which chicken to choke.

[u/clemep8 → u/Shaggytwig]

cleanup at register 2

[u/justabill71 → u/clemep8]

You know how much money the average jizz mopper makes per hour?

[u/clemep8 → u/justabill71]

not enough…

[u/ewitsChu → u/clemep8]

"Cleanup at register 2... oh shit, I'm the only one here..."

[u/MithandirsGhost → u/Shaggytwig]

Sigh unzips

[u/Midnight1965]

Choke the chicken? Let’s hope a bunch of guys don’t start dropping their pants….

[u/greenappletree]

I would like a survey for those who used the ringer vs the chicken

[u/avalon01]

This is at just about every DG I've been in. They usually have some type of squeeze toy at the counter.

[u/AlienBlueVsRedditor → u/avalon01]

I have a somewhat funny story about these that my wife and I still laugh at. When we lived in a small apartment right across the street from a dollar general, we used to walk over there all the time, probably once or twice a week. And about 5 years ago now, our store got a squeeze toy at the register that said "squeeze for cashier." We had once seen the girl who was checking us out in a shouting match with a customer (pretty understandably, they're so overworked and deal with shitty clientele at times) and her mood seemed to always be very down or very happy so I thought she may have even been struggling with mental illness. Well in my mind, when we get to the register and the employee is already standing there and I see this new squeaky toy with a sign, I don't read it as "please squeeze to get the cashier's attention," I read it as "please squeeze FOR the cashier." So somehow in my head I convinced myself that for whatever reason, it makes this cashier happy to hear the squeeze toy squeaking. It would be rude of me to see the toy and not squeeze it to bring this poor girl's day some much needed joy.

Luckily, right as I was on the verge of squeaking it, I realized what it really meant and I didn't pick it up. The idea of this annoyed, exasperated girl glaring back at me while I smile at her squeezing a squeak toy in her face would have given me those cringe-inducing memories at night for the rest of my life

[u/Bulky-Warthog-4162]

These places suck. Pay someone to work the GD register

[u/Keepa5000]

Yes. Sometimes this summons one of the three people running the entire store. I've worked as a vendor for 15 years and I always felt bad for the employees work loads. F*ck DG.

[u/Gavindy_]

Nope I’m not touching that

[u/Terrell_The_Fox]

I've worked at one for a bit over 5 years now (3 of them actually, I cycle through them when one needs me) as a keyholder (basically a cashier that can be left alone). My store used to do this all the time but our pos district manager decided to rant about how unprofessional it was so we had to just start running back and forth to check the front inbetween every couple of products we stock

[u/gargamel314]

I think everyone wants you to choke the chicken

[u/Firehawk195]

Uh, I'm pretty sure I don't wanna do that in public.

[u/watchingbuffy]

Hah! Ours has a pink pig to squeeze!

[u/MMcD127]

Wait it’s not just my DG!!???

[u/NayMarine]

This is corporates way of saying we wont pay for enough employees, but the ones that are here are also not paid enough. They have the same thing here where I live. The store was so bad the fire chief literally had to shut it down because of the un shelved products sitting in the isles etc.

[u/drfury31]

Instructions unclear, now banned from Dollar General

[u/SolarisTheBat]

These places are generally always understaffed, I know because I used to work for these guys. Trying to balance being a cashier with your other store duties is not a cakewalk, especially if you have a busy location. Doubly true of locations with only one employee actively working.

Oh and corporate sure as shit knows this, but they don't care. They still expect you to be able to stock and recover as a cashier even when you're rammed with customers and by yourself. What do we get for this? Physical, mental, and verbal abuse; not to mention the terrible pay.

So I don't blame them for using the squeeze chicken, things get hectic in those places.

[u/PotentialCrazy1]

I worked there for 5 months, was the only employee for the day.. Plus take deliveries and charge people... N stock up the merchandise. Impossible! But not in the eyes of the higher ups.

[u/BOBANSMASH51]

This company doesn’t get enough hate

[u/CancerNormieNews]

When I worked at dollar general, we tried to do this but our bitch of a district manager made us stop. Then would get mad for not being able to watch register and stock the entire store.

[u/ha1029]

The employees should be required to carry one at all times... just in case they are buried by all the product packing the aisles waiting to be put away...

[u/WrongColorCollar]

Also reads as "only one person is allowed to work at any given time so I'm probably doing something else, because paying two people to work at once would destroy the company overnight".

Fuck Dollar General.

[u/NerdCrush]

You're going to get the store in trouble. Corporate hates that shit but won't give the stores enough hours to staff properly.

I have a whole bunch to say about the shitty employment practices at dollar general. They are the reason I went into HR. They made me want to protect low level employees.