Fastenal – “DO NOT WORK HERE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE TO!!”

Pros

Benefits and the fact that you only have to deal with middle management maybe once a month. Everything else about this company is a joke!

Cons

Firstly, expect zero respect about your work ethic or intelligence from middle management. Trust me when I say there is no good enough. The pay structure is designed for you to never increase income. If you are on of the few lucky ones who begins getting high commissions, they milk you dry, fire you, then find someone to do your job for half the pay. The continually promise you things then renig on the offer and deny every proposing it in the first place. You will be expected to drive to other stores further way if they decide that's where they want you. Of course they will tell you that you will receive gas reimbursment, but you will not.

As for the job itself, upper management expects unrealistic results, and does not help at all. In fact im not sure what the majority of management even does. The warehouse support is completely unreliable, which makes branch employees time and time again look like idiots. Still, in all those instances we are blamed. They even have an anual super sale where we have a goal to hit, and half the products on there we cannot stock at the store! And a quarter of those aren't stocked at our distribution centers, and they are made over seas so we have no option to bring them in. Honestly, what kind of legitiment business puts out a super sales promotion and come of the items aren't even obtainable!?

I really do not understand how in the world this company became as big as they did. Either things were different years ago, or the excessive penny pinching pays off!

Advice to Senior Management

Discard middle management. This company tries to cut every penny! Instead of recycling the face the customer sees every day, who are low paid workers; make the district management postion obsolete. They serve no purpose other than to reiterate what the regional manager says. Save all that money and pay your branch employees more! Maybe if you have happy workers sales will go up, i dunno call me crazy!