Okay for Part-Time but upper management is terrible at Fastenal - Sales Support Fastenal Employee Review

2.0
Nov 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

$10 hourly is not bad for a part-time job while in school. Fairly easy entry to get your foot in the door for sales, if that's what you want.

Cons

District managers are terrible and do not support their managers or stores at all. DM's and RVP's consistently tear down their sales people at the store level who do the hard work day in and day out, and then expect success out of us. Company prides itself on the GM's being the "manager of your own business" but in reality they have no control over it and if you're not the District Manager's robot they'll force you out. It's no mystery why Fastenal has a bad reputation for employee dissatisfaction!

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Pros

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

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