Florida woman says Dollar General fired her over viral TikTok videos

A Florida girl says she was fired from her job at Greenback Normal after she started posted TikTok movies accusing the corporate of treating its staff unfairly and creating unsafe working situations.

“I open the shop at 8 a.m., and I principally needed to run your complete retailer. I needed to examine out and in prospects, I needed to do my paperwork, I needed to examine in distributors, I needed to examine in a thriller truck that simply confirmed up out of nowhere,” Mary Gundel, who managed a Greenback Normal retailer close to Tampa, mentioned. “I had no assist, I haven’t got sufficient hours given to me for me to really be a supervisor inside the enterprise. And that is an enormous security concern inside the firm.”

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Gundel created the hashtag “Putinaticket” which is supposed to mock how Greenback Normal handles complaints by staff, by telling them to “put in a ticket.”

On account of her TikToks, different Greenback Normal staff started posting their work experiences at Greenback Normal as nicely.

When she tried to lift issues about staffing and different points with folks at Greenback Normal, Gundel mentioned that she was met with the identical response each time: “All people is coping with this proper now.”

She additionally alleged that staff are working by themselves within the retailer for whole shifts.

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Mary Gundel, who managed a Greenback Normal retailer close to Tampa Bay, Florida, was terminated on April 1 after she started making TikTok movies about working situations inside the firm. (Mary Gundel / Fox Information)

In a single video Gundel posted whereas she was nonetheless working at Greenback Normal, she criticized a brand new firm coverage that allegedly restricted the times through which incoming truck containers might be unloaded.

In response to the allegations, Greenback Normal offered FOX Enterprise with the next assertion:

“At Greenback Normal, we’re dedicated to offering an atmosphere the place staff can develop their careers and the place they really feel valued and heard. We’re proud that roughly 75% of our Retailer Managers, together with many different leaders, have been promoted from inside. Sustaining two-way, open traces of communication with our staff is a precedence. We offer many avenues for our groups to make their voices heard, together with our open-door coverage and routine engagement surveys. We use this suggestions to assist us determine and deal with issues, enhance our office, and higher serve our staff, prospects and communities,” the assertion mentioned.

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“We’re disillusioned any time an worker feels that we’ve got not lived as much as these targets, and we use these conditions as extra alternatives to hear and be taught. Though we don’t agree with all of the statements presently being made by Ms. Gundel, we’re doing that right here,” the low cost retailer chain added.

A Greenback Normal spokesperson mentioned the corporate had spoken with Gundel concerning the violations of firm coverage it says she dedicated.