Fastenal reviews

As outside sales- 50 hours, crappy pay, micromanagement, too many 'responsibilities' that take away from your time selling. Very little control of 'selling' to your accounts, little possibility for growth, no 'perks' or incentives beyond a paycheck, they combine your paycheck and commission into one check so you get screwed in taxes, if you aren't in sales- don't worry you won't be held accountable for your job, not wrote up or reprimanded ever even if you get caught falsifying time cards. Corp holds paychecks an extra day or two (paychecks- even direct deposit ) are not consistently distributed on time- I think that they hold paychecks to make more interest of your check. They push and push and threaten you to make you sell vending- but there is no training for it after you sell it. Everyone's answer to every question is 'do a FASTHELP' which is neither fast nor helpful and always a waste of time. Noone in the company knows how to use the words THANK YOU OR GOOD JOB.

I really don't get the feeling they care about employees. Well, actually, they just don't. If they get a bad month they simply cut part timer hours without notice to leverage and make it a good month (the manager will have to put in extra hours to get jobs done), if that is not enough they will simply fire them and then the OSP's (the weakest links will go first), and this is not "downsizing" or "laying off" due to a bad year or something, it is simply firing people to cut spending on employees to save a single month!. Then when things get better, they hire new ones and the wheel goes on and on. We are also constantly threatened that we will lose our jobs if we don't fix "what ever is on their mind". Yeah, "what ever is on their mind" changes every week, you are never "safe" at fastenal, no matter how good you are. Great school but they do not deserve your life of effort.