Pros
The pay isn't bad, and the benefits are above industry standard. They carry some very interesting products that are fun to sell. They are a stable company that claims to have no debt.
Cons
Ocean State Jobbers makes it continually more difficult for its employees to keep up with their own tasks. Managers and hourly employees alike get fewer and fewer hours, but the workload only gets worse. Often there are multiple levels of management, buyers and owners with different opinions on what they think you should be doing, and how well you do depends solely on who visits the store that day. Favoritism and nepotism are common on an incredible scale- often the main office will make positions or force store managers to hire for family members of the owners and buyers if an opportunity doesn't already exist. In recent years, there has been an uptick of managers who walked out or who were terminated for suspicious causes.
