Fastenal reviews

They openly hate their employees and think the employees are as underdeveloped and inept as they are. Like all positions at fastenal, your position’s hourly rate tops out less than what you should start at. Everyone’s in high school or just out of high school. Basic positions anyone slightly competent, fresh out of high school could do well require degrees. Nothing here warrants delusionally requiring a degree. The management and corporate environment is an abusive bubba club intentionally creating higher turnover. Completely reprobate management. There’s literally zero benefits, no medical or dental ins, no sick time, no pto. When you get your review your toxic reprobate supervisor will state you don’t understand anything and are unable to do your job but still give you your slap in the face .50 raise. Anything to display pettiness and underdeveloped character. It’s a dangerous workplace and accidents happen for sure; the steps are two inches wide and slippery. When you’re injured they’re going to act like you’re faking your injury. The degenerate you have to deal with in corporate will speak down to you and insinuate you’re faking your injury. Their insurance drops you immediately, they’ll make up whatever to not cover what they’re supposed to. I reported a mentally unstable supervisor that makes up things about me and has escalated his harassing and slandering me. His wife is the HR department and another relative is above them in management. Literally two days later I’m told I can’t work without a Dr’s restriction list. I give them it and they now keep rejecting my Dr’s restrictions. Conficts of interest aren’t a big deal to the malignant excrement making decisions here. This’s an openly malevolent employer. If you get ill, you can’t return to work without wasting a weeks worth of fastenal wages to get a Dr’s note. So basically if you get sick, get a different job. The turnover is deservedly incredibly high. No one honestly values their employment but the lack of motivation is to be expected. There’s about a 25-30% loss in work and then it’s slower anyways from December-March or April. So they cut hours greatly during this. Good luck. A union would be voted in unanimously and extremely quickly if given the chance. They’ve earned the reputation of an abusive and unprofessional employer. Janky, lacking at best. This business will be sold or go out of business in the next 3-5 years maximum.

Just like most reviews on here, it's the Pay! If someone Google search the average salary for the job title, Fastenal pays well under than the 25th percentile for that category. This is a place to start a career, but not a place where someone experienced will end up. Most people will leave for other company due to pay and this has been the trend for over a decade. (i learned about this from reading reviews and talking to employees who's been there a long time) A lot of people with 0-2 years of experience, but VERY few people with 3+ yrs. Also, a lot of things in IT falls behind because of high turnover.