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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

(931 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 931 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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931 reviews
3.0
Jan 31, 2015
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Pros

Most of the management is really nice, and doesn't act like they're better than you. There aren't a ton of employees so all the co-workers get along really well and have fun working together. Many people become friends outside of work. It's an easy job. Not as face paced as other stores, and it's easy to put out freight because almost everything stays in the box, you just cut it open to display the products. There are opportunities to move up in the store relatively quickly. Managers don't micromanage. As long as you get your work done it's pretty much up to you how you do it.

Cons

Not a lot of full time positions in each store. Hard working employees are not always appreciated. People who are actually amazing employees get written up at the drop of a hat. People who have been there for years are laid off or fired. Seniority doesn't mean much. More experienced workers get stuck on registers while new employees go on the floor with little to no training. Cash registers go down all the time, or freeze, or make you sign in a million times before you can be assigned a till in the morning. Can't work more than 28 hours unless you're full time. Managers play favorites. Can get very boring when the store is slow.

1.0
Jan 12, 2015

front end supervisor

Anonymous employee
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Pros

interesting to see how employees react in an impossible role of satisfying management and customers

Cons

paid as low as possible. good employees get no benefit above the worst employees

1.0
Jan 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros to working for this company.

Cons

Completely Unprofessional Atmosphere Employees Gossip Untidy/Dirty Horrible Customer Service Unreliable Management Two-Faced Management Point System Lack-of-Power for Cashiers 10 Minutes Breaks and "being forced" to work through Meals Big Brother is ALWAYS watching Too MUCH Drama Overly-Involved Employees Lying Management Careless Employees (On a personal note: I was told that a leave of absence for school didn't exist. So I asked to cut my hours back to the bare minimum. They agreed. However, after a few months of being school I was told I HAD to work more than 8 hours a week. Even though in the employee handbook it states 8 hours is all that is needed. I then mentioned that a leave of absence doesn't exist, and then I was told it does exist. They just didn't want to offer it to me. The store manager lied to me. They also don't understand what a 2 weeks notice means and continued to put me on the schedule)

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