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Harbor Freight Tools

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You store associates need to know your place! - Human Resources Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

5.0
Sep 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

As a regional HR manager I love being to go to stores and treat the staff like the vermin that they are! They are nothing more than disposable property to this company!

Cons

Retail workers should not get paid time off! They deserve nothing!

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Harbor Freight Tools Response
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We take great pride and appreciate all that our employees do to make Harbor Freight Tools successful and one of America's fastest growing retailers. We believe our employees are the best in the industry and HFT demonstrates that by offering paid time off, pay for performance incentives and by treating them with dignity and respect. We do everything we can to ensure we do the right thing for all of our employees. We value feedback from our employees (past & present) but don't think it is fair to our Human Resources employees or employees in general when someone falsely post as Human Resources. We would encourage you to share your feedback in a constructive manner. If you feel more comfortable you can email me personally at dstainback@harborfreight.com.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Supply chain issues, many parts would never be replenished, despite being featured, advertised, and on display. That would often lead to tensions with customers. Aggressive time constraints on tasks. Sidewalk sales, holidays, and also coincidentally inclement weather days, can be quite busy and therefore stressful. Especially if there's call outs, but if you have a good management team, you'll have good staff that will want to work for them.

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