"A Lot More for a Lot Less" indeed - Sales Associate Ocean State Job Lot Employee Review

3.0
26 July 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the staff was cool, there were a lot of regular customers you'd build a repore with as well which made it interesting. The employee discount was competitive, one of the best in the area

Cons

The amount of work for the wages they pay (minimum) is crazy. You're expected to be moving around and doing SOMETHING at all times, even if everything is done. They let you bring water to a register but get annoyed if you ask to go to the bathroom even if there's no customers . Their POS systems are in DIRE need of an upgrade, it's like working a register from 1987. Super high turnover because of the backwards point system that they claimed to change but it really just stayed the same and good employees were terminated for having one too many sick days and not getting a note to the manager fast enough

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Ocean State Job Lot Response
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Thank you for the time. We will share your thoughts with the store leaders as well as our team in IT. As for turnover, we have industry leading retention. Best of luck..

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