Really messed up my life - Stock Associate Ocean State Job Lot Employee Review

3.0
Mar 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Discount, friendly co workers, diversity

Cons

Well I can say I enjoyed my time at ocean state. Seems now I am going to have to leave due to the hour change of coming into work. Before employees were able to come to work between 6am and 9am before the store opened but now it’s only 10 minutes. I’ve been with the company well over 3 years and never had an issue. The other day I saw a manager get harassed by customers waiting for the store to be open as the manager was walking to the door with associates to go in. It’s kind of scary honestly and really no other companies I’ve seen do that. I really appreciate everything they do but I can’t even accommodate with the new hours as well.

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Ocean State Job Lot Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. As a retail company, we try to balance our needs of associates, customers, and our business. These are challenging times and our data showed why we needed to make changes to staffing and store hours.

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