High turnover for a reason - Anonymous employee Ocean State Job Lot Employee Review

1.0
25 Mar 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They are always hiring. Once hired, you can learn as much as you want. But you'll have to multitask without eating or drinking for long periods of time.

Cons

Can't keep people. Micro-manage obsessed. No personal life allowed. Most of the reviews on GD are from corporate employees who are desperate to improve the reputation of a business that neglects their hourly employees.

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Ocean State Job Lot Response
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Thank you for the note. We would love to speak further with you. As you are aware, we have a best in class open door. Any of our Associate Relations Managers as well as field leadership would love to hear about why you left. It's important as an employer to clear up so some of the generalizations made. Specifically, your cons are store specific. As a total store organization we have industry leading retention and many stores have very few people leave in a year. Also, we will be sharing on glassdoor all of the PT benefit sign ups as well as Profit Participation has increasing for store associates again this year. We cannot help any store if we do not know which stores need it. The leader of Store Operations as well as a number of leaders are always looking to help. Please call so we can address the store concerns from this location. Best of luck.

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Cons

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Cons

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