Pros
Not many I can think of
Cons
Where should I begin. Every position under General Manager is ok. Once you become a GM you will not be with the company long if you have your own mind and opinions. Also being at a larger store helps. If you take over a struggling store like I did you will get no help or support. All you will get is told come on there is so much potential in this market. I also have never seen a company that gives you a title and doesn't allow you to run the branch. I had terrible sales people and part time employees under me. I tried to do written disciplinary action on them only to be told I was not allowed to. So basically I was not a manager but a scape goat for when the time was right. When I was a sales rep I could sell anything to any customer and how I got rewarded was promoted and then booted out the door when I asked for help and disagreed with upper management on some issues at hand. Even though they only see numbers behind a desk and are not in the field daily. My advice is do what everyone else does here get finish your college do the full time sales position all the while looking for something better. Do not take a GM position unless you want to use it on a resume and plan on leaving within a year or two. Pay is terrible for GMs you are expected to do the job of 5 people while working for under 50k a year. You are responsible for collections (which they take out of your comission for past dues) accounting, operations, logistics, sales, and managing your people with no authority. I left and went to a real sales company and tripled my income of the street. If you can get into sales ANYWHERE else do it immediately and do not hesitate. I have had so many collegues leave this place only to be happier treated like a human being and make more money. I can't even begin to count how many leave. Read some reviews and see how high the turnover is that's why fastenal can't beat its competition and never will is because they value human capital as nothing. All they care about is overcharging everyone for everything and the fat CEOs in Winona MN stuffing their pockets from all of our hard work.