Okay place to work, biggest concern of the DM is your to do list - Store Manager Ocean State Job Lot Employee Review

2.0
Mar 12, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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Ocean State Job Lot Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We always look for areas where we can improve and would be happy to discuss this further with you. Please reach out to Tom McMullen Director of Human Resources at t.mcmullen@osjl.com
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