Toxic horrific short working experience - Employee Fastenal Employee Review

1.0
Nov 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Got paid on time every month!

Cons

Toxic Senior Management, blame culture within company, no quality or truthful attitudes to work or customers, poor training, low pay, long hours, no promotional opportunity, cold warehouses, asked to deliver in dangerous conditions in vans not fit to drive, poor health and safety attitude, hiding failings of product from customers, quality and labs designed to look good but nobody wants to work in those departments, asked to achieve the impossible, boys club attitude and favouritism to a few regardless of their incompetence, bonus taken by District managers away from sales support workers, high turnover of employees.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

I like my coworkers and my GM is a good .

Cons

The business model and lean staffing is simply unsustainable. Entry level pay, part time, little training, no commissions. Fastenal is focused on the sale rather than the customer. The wing it mentatility leaves customer service lacking. It's a roll coaster of putting one fire out after the other. They sale the position during the interview process but after your in there's empty promises with no real timelines for when the advancement is coming. Upper management seems out of touch with the day to day business. If you ask for help they simply say you have a good schedule. It's extremely disappointing that it has turned out this way because I was excited about the prospect of becoming an Account manager.

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