Family Dollar store closes as all employees quit

The Lincoln location of the discount store displayed a sign on Sunday telling customers "We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience," after the last two employees walked off the job.

The store's assistant manager Breanna Faeller told Fox 5 that as of that Sunday, just one cashier and herself were the only employees left working at the location.

According to Faeller, problems started around three to four months ago when the store lost all of its cashiers and its other assistant manager due to alleged issues with the manager.

"The working conditions were so bad because it was a never-ending cycle of trying to play catch up with everything," she said. "We had five employees, max, at all times. You can't run a whole store with five employees."

Faeller said that hiring new people is currently impossible. With the extended unemployment benefits, many of the workers were fed up with the long hours and low pay they would receive from the business.

The White House has stated on numerous occasions that the boosted unemployment benefits are not to blame for staffing issues seen across the country.

"We couldn't keep any cashiers hired because they only made $10 an hour and it definitely wasn't worth the pay for everything we had to expect them to do," Faeller said. "They are only supposed to work up to 20 hours a week and they were working 35-40."

Faeller said most new employees leave within a few days, and in one recent incident, an employee left to go to the bathroom and never returned.

Faeller said her manager quit last week, forcing her to work 11-hour shifts, seven days a week.

In addition, she said the bathrooms hadn't been working that past week, and the air conditioner kept breaking. Faeller told Fox 5 that she felt relieved when she put the sign up on the store and left.

"I had no more stress wondering if I was going to be the only one working that day," she said. "I felt horrible at the same time, I had a lot of regular customers that I enjoyed talking to every day but I just couldn't do it anymore."

According to Fox 5, a Dollar Tree spokesperson, the company that owns Family Dollar, said that the store had been reopened.