It was a living hell. - Branch "Micro" Managed Manager Fastenal Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great non management co-workers. this was very necessary as we all knew we were working for a sucubus. My direct manager was caught stealing multyple times as a General Manager. Good thing his older brother was a regional VP. Rather than getting fired like anyone else caught for this would be terminated on the spot, ol" Hary got a huge promotion. his IQ is got to be no more 64.

Cons

Unless you're a member of the good ol boy club, your job was at stake at tghe end of every month. Even if you reached sales goals it wa made clear we were all replaceable. these do gooders writing 4 star comments are all BS, they are part of the goog ol' boy conspireicy. I had taken 6 days out of 8 weeks of vacaton in the last 2 years working just to keep up. they are racist as can be. It's all white guys & a few women who did god only knows what to get their titles. It wasn't brains, but it was most likely another organ. I know of DM's who try to falisify material certification. The gworst of this is they make someone else do it, or threaten to fire them.

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Cons

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