Harbor Freight Tools Employee Reviews about "people"

Pros

Meet some interesting people and I am sure that this store is much different than any other in the Denver/Aurora area.

Cons

Pay is bad even for full timers Schedule is made up for some to get whatever they want others work back to back, like work 4p to midnight and then be back at work at 11 am the next day and then 4 p to midnight again. Don't care that people have families Management and supervisors don't treat everyone the same, nit pick on certain employees and let the rest get away with whatever. Don't care about their employees if they get hurt or not by customers, and they definitely don't care that people are stealing from the store.

Pros

warehouse team was fun to work with. great job for students. easy interview. you meet a lot of cool people in trades and business owners so working here can be your stepping stone in finding a better job/career. don't need a GED. if you like to party and talk trash to your coworkers while you work this is the spot for you.

Cons

$9 an hour is low pay. even if you move up you still wont make very much. low hours, 20 hours a week if your lucky, you wont get more if you ask. their is not motivation to move up the supervisors were on making 11 an hour. HR called me by mistake didn't even ask my name, they thought i was eric who was telling on someone about how he was getting picked on. so basically hr called me and let me know who is snitching on people btw i had already quit the job a week before the call.

Pros

Good place to learn about tools and has decent upward mobility for people willing to work for it.

Cons

Customers feel very entitled a lot of the time and corporate management didn't seem very competent.

Pros

Some wonderful and hard working people work at corporate. Company now allows most corporate employees to work remotely. COVID response was great. Benefits are expensive but decent. Community work and Tools for Schools is amazing.

Cons

Everyone is overworked and burned out at corporate. Many people are dealing with mental health issues, but if you take a leave or tell people you're struggling it will be held against you. It's impossible to take time off (they expect you to check emails while you're on PTO). Company grew staff in some departments and not in others resulting in increased workload for many. Decision making is slow and changes constantly. The senior leaders have no strategy and everything is a priority (priorities change daily). Too many meetings with no decisions. People are afraid to speak up or complain or even ask questions for fear of retaliation. Lots of favoritism - promotions and opportunities are based on whether your manager likes you and if you work long hours. HR is terrible. We had a great HR Business Partner but she quit suddenly without another job lined up. What does that tell you?

Pros

You get paid time off as well as spiff which can easily increase your paychecks by like $200 dollars

Cons

New Management isn't very professional as well as one team member that is part of the management team is very disrespectful to their employees. The company does not care about employees and will higher as many people as possible to lower hours.

Pros

Salary is competitive and benefits are decent.

Cons

Poor leadership/management - the management are inexperienced and incompetent, they don't listen to suggestions well and keep making the same mistakes. It is also unprofessional of the managers to talk negatively and gossip about their own people openly to other co-workers and other departments. The managers also do not protect their own people, instead, they challenge and throw their own people under the bus in meetings in front of other departments. This is extremely unprofessional and poor management. Poor work & life balance - majority of the people work at HFT have no life, the managers expect you to work 24/7. You are asked to work at late nights, weekends and even holidays. It is extremely unhealthy and inhuman of the managers to ask their people do work such long hours. The workload is unsustainable. Not enough employee to support the quick growth and everything falls on you to complete. Poor workload arrangement - the workload here is not even. some people have a lot of workload but some don't. Again, the managers assign workload based on preferences, not what makes sense. Poor system and process - the company's system and process are very insufficient. Many people tried to change or improve them, but have not been successful.

Pros

Good benefit package, customer base is generally great, employee discount on non-coupon items, access to information about which tools are great and which ones to avoid.

Cons

Too few hours allotted to each store to have a real floor/warehouse/office coverage. Constant pressure to perform above and beyond without proper recognition for the people do who actually do the sweating in the place.