Pay Raises are a Moving Target. - Store Manager Fastenal Employee Review

2.0
Jun 20, 2014
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Pros

Upper management is mostly hands off. If you're a store manager you get to drive the company truck home. Otherwise, not much.

Cons

They believe in internal competition which is the ruination of organizational health. While profit is high, turnover is even higher. If you're good, you'll get a promotion but that will include a new sales goal before getting into bonus/commission money. Thus, you take one step forward and two steps back as the goal posts keep getting pushed back. When I was there the management was very uneducated in managerial styles and supervision techniques. The high-turnover-store-employees are often recent college grads whereas the upper management went to the school of hard knocks, stay forever, and don't realize how lacking they are in their managerial talent.

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

Good job to have during college. People are easy going and easy to get along with. Overall really good experience

Cons

Gets repetitive after a while

3.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

You get to meet great people along the way. POS system is a great tool.

Cons

Fastenal does not do performance reviews. Trying to get a raise is near impossible. When you ask for a raise they upper management says that you need to sell more..... Fastenal seems like it's trying to weed out there tenure employees and higher college grads with no experience and little pay to replace seasoned personnel.

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