High school wages. - Picking Fastenal Employee Review

1.0
Aug 18, 2023
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Pros

Some of the employees are intelligent. Some of the employees are kind, professional and understand being a team. On employee appreciation days instead of getting the +$14 per hour raise you needed to be able to afford normal things they provide hot dogs, hamburgers and corn syrup drinks.

Cons

They hate their employees. You’re very expected to have a weak slave mindset by the employer and management. It’s showing obvious signs of possibly going out of business. Nepotism is a problem. If you don’t have experience doing exactly that position, they consider it having no work experience and start you off at the lowest rate. Experience and ability are not valued here literally at all. High school cashier wages, you will be unable to pay basic bills off of this job. It’s unaffordable working here, everyone here has other jobs, a spouse with a real job, live with family or roommates, some possibly homeless and tons of employees can’t afford a vehicle. Foolishly, they require degrees for common sense basic office and business positions. 95% of the positions are part time so no benefits but you’re expected to spend over half a weeks wages to get a dr’s note if you’re sick or they don’t allow you to come back to work. If you get sick plan to get a different job? If you do get a full time position the benefits are horrible and you’ll work every weekend. Report an obvious hazard like a wrapped pallet leaning at least two feet over the pallets edge 30 ft up and it’s never corrected, it’ll stay like that the rest of the day. Some of the things you handle are toxic so wash up good; they’ll say carcinogen warning etc. The work environment is hazardous, there’s definitely accidents whether someone is hurt or not, nowhere near enough pay for that. Some of your coworkers have very strong bo, cologne, perfume, and deodorant. It will literally gag you sometimes. This clearly creates a very awkward and unprofessional situation. They will have an undiscerning inaccurately assumptive supervisor/lead do your evaluation insulting your intelligence with grading on things like your ‘ability to learn’ which is never tested. They basically pretend because they are incompetent that you are equally inept and therefore must operate and think like they do. If you’re already experienced in forklift, managing etc, it’s bad for them to be aware of that. Don’t tell them about prior experience. When being trained on something new, the individual training you may likely be easily confused, not understand your questions, be unable to see well or obviously inaccurately guessing at things happening right in front of them, acting like you’re doing things you aren’t or things are happening with tools or items that aren’t happening; it’s really strange, possibly narcotics. Also continuing assuming you’re not understanding very simple things out of nowhere. Try to be patient and not to correct them. In general it’s apparent most can’t read people here. If reprobate coworkers feel you don’t have enough melanin or whatever their delusion is you’ll be targeted and complained about true or not, childish faces, comments, attitudes, uncooperative, unprofessional etc. Delusion and underdeveloped character is tolerated for some, even clear sexism and racism. Though most everyone are doing so, make sure you don’t press a mouse or keyboard harder than the mentally unstable degenerate next to you feels you should, don’t drop anything, etc. they’ll lie claiming a sound in a very noisy warehouse is disrupting their work, if you do it. The saturation of ignorance, weakness and compromise here is impressive. Also looks like there’s gender specific positions for some departments or positions. I’ve worked the same exact hours and my paycheck magically varied at least $150 less at times. They short your already tiny checks. The computers, os, printers, scan guns, conveyor belt, and likely anything else you’re using will mess up consistently effecting your work pace. The lag on the computer at times is greater than multiple minutes, you’ll suddenly have multiple windows open from 8 plus minutes prior when you’re trying to open a file, etc. You’re expected to keep a purposely unrealistic average pace of 40+ jobs per hour with no mistakes to be eligible for your .50¢ slap in the face raise every year. Only a few people can meet the quota and not regularly besides one person so clearly no raises happening here but even if they gave mandatory $4 raises every six months it’s going to be multiple years till you’re at an affordable wage to be able to pay everything adults have to pay for. If you meet the quota for the entire month they give $300 extra for the month..that’s not an incentive to work at a robot pace. They’re getting what they’re paying for; unprofessional rapid turnover, many incompetent workers, most don’t care about their high school wage job. Inaccurately assumptive and ill-equipped managers as well, very unorganized business overall. Play stupid games with your business and employees, win well deserved stupid prizes.

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