Fastenal reviews

Fastenal is extremely frustrating to work for, so let’s say you do manage to grow sales. What happens next is they will hire another sales person to handle the increased business, giving them half you accounts/pay. Or they will spin another store off of yours and you will lose half your accounts/pay to that new store. Now you are back to where you started, and they will tell you that all you have to do is go out and get more business to get your pay back up. You will never ever get anywhere, even though they make it look like you are commission based, in reality you work for a measly small salary compared to how hard they will make you work.

Everything is set up for the sales field so roles at corporate are left in the dust. Poverty line compensation with a bonus structure built off of nothing that you can influence unless you're in sales. They can (and will) reduce your bonus at any time due to market conditions - no other company does that, considering your bonus is not actually an incentive bonus but rather is half of the pay you're counting on to feed your family. Most of the people you have to work with are completely incompetent and have zero motivation to do a better than average job. Why would they when they get paid so horribly? I guess I can't blame them. It's an extremely frustrating place to be day after day when you actually care about your work and improving the company - sooner or later everyone else's negative attitudes and morale starts rubbing off on you too and next thing you know you're here writing a review and searching for a new job.