Poor career choice - Food Department Head Ocean State Job Lot Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Work with good hardworking people.

Cons

Management is poor. Poor Audit checks and Inventory is fully blamed on store employees, management will not push for employees to get a raise. Additionally, raises are preformance based, which means instead of every 6 months you get 25 or 50 cents. You could potentially get 5 or 10 cents. Full time hours are generally 37 hours. Pay is poor. Physical store cosmetics are old, dusty, aged. Ocean state donates only expired food, which is terrible. I am not happy to be here. I will not work for a company who treats their employees like idiots.

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Ocean State Job Lot Response
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We thank you for sharing your experience. We would love to connect and understand more so we have the ability to address cons as well as understand your advise to us. please call 401-295-7927 and ask for the Director of Store Operations.

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