It's interesting - Anonymous employee Fastenal Employee Review

3.0
Apr 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Get a sweet discount, work truck, good benefits. Go into work at 7:30 and you won't leave till 5. Get a full days work in. 10 dollars an hour starting pay

Cons

If you are a part timer it isn't worth it. You will be promised to be a sales trainee and in reality you will be putting away stock all day and taking out the garbage. You will look around and notice that there are few people who have been with the company for very long due to the high turnover rate. In winter time your hours will be cut back to 16 a week which makes life difficult especially if you are like me and are a college student.

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Cons

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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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