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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
2.0
Aug 23, 2010
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Pros

There is a sense of ownership of your store. You make merchandising decisions on alot of the product and creativity is encouraged. Free medical, decent bonuses, and a long weekend off in each of the lst three quarters are great perks.

Cons

Policy and procedure changes can happen overnight based on a single incident. Long-term ramifications and even immediate impact on the stores seems like it's not considered at times. If your first-day sales were poor on specific items, you would be called "stupid" in many different ways on the Friday morning conference calls with ownership. And, at least in the district I was in, favortisim ran rampant.

2.0
May 24, 2010
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Pros

The pay is okay for a retail manager on salary, but the hours are long. The health benefit plan for managers is good too. Most of the sales associates can be fun to work with and friendly with the management.

Cons

The 10 hour days are too long. There is too much manual labor for managers to do. The corporate people who go out to the stores can be rude and demeaning to all the people who work in the stores. Some store employees will have so much "drama" in their lives that they will make everyone they work with miserable. There is a very bad system in place for cashier over/shorts, and lateness that puts good employees in a frequent panic, and sends everyone's blood pressure up. The bonus program for managers was a joke, $350 per year for making the store goal?

2.0
Mar 12, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Do not really have to use your brain. The company attempts to manage from the top by keeping their store managers in the dark. At Store level you never see a P/L instead you get a report card on where you are ranked versus other stores. Good health benefits company paid for.

Cons

Upper level management consists of people who worked for companies that are now bankrupt and out of business. Not an open minded company, on several occasions when presenting upper management with an idea on how to be more productive was simply told do you remember retail 20 years ago? This is how we do it here if you don't like it find another job. Zero consistency from upper level management on how they want things done.

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