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Ocean State Job Lot

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Ocean State Job Lot reviews

2.9

38% would recommend to a friend

(932 total reviews)
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Marc Perlman

34% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Ocean State Job Lot has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 932 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Ocean State Job Lot employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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932 reviews
3.0
Oct 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

profit sharing before Christmas, SOME good employees to work with, if you're lucky you can get two good managers but usually only one. Yes, there is a point system and if you screw up too many times you will get fired or suspended, there is an easy solution though and its called BE ON TIME AND BE A GOOD EMPLOYEE! jeez i read some reviews on the business before i wrote this and one person said that mangers will work 5 hours and get paid as if they work 10. They are salaried and whoever wrote that is just uneducated... managers can work 60+ hours a week (no overtime pay) so stop complaining. i worked at this store for just over two years and was hired when i was only 16 years old. This place was my second family and over the two years i worked up to a front end supervisor.

Cons

only a few full time positions available, maybe 5 at most not including managers because they are salaried. Even if you are a great employee (like i was) at the end of the day you go home and who ever worked after you at the front would just destroy all my hard work on organizing and cleaning. every day i came into work it broke my heart to see all my hard work destroyed by other employees who just didn't care. at times i felt like managers were very against woman, of who they would assign jobs to. oh and there is absolutely no communication between managers! that would ALWAYS aggravate me, GER! you would hear a million different things from the managers. they all had different information it was so difficult to get a real answer.

2.0
Sep 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

nice coworkers, not so long hours and the job is pretty easy.

Cons

Schedule is always different, managers all tell us to do different things. I was told we can only have bottled water with us; no coffee, no soda. Doesn't really make sense to me. I tell them daily about days I can't work and I'm ignored.

4.0
Sep 12, 2015

Management

Recommend
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Pros

Great health benefits, opportunities to grow if you work hard enough, very structured hierarchy with more definitive roles for hire ups. Hours are a standard 50, except for certain times of the year. Growing company, profitable.

Cons

Extremely hands on even though their goal is to have management walking around with a clipboard. Some have an unrealistic picture of what actually needs to happen in the store. Nothing is "cookie cutter".

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