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Harbor Freight Tools

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Stressful environment - Assistant Manager Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

2.0
Dec 17, 2012
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Pros

Decent starting pay rate. ASM are paid hourly, which helps with work/life balance. You  accrue  PTO time quickly. There are opportunity for commission.  Health benefits

Cons

  The company restriction on part timers hours and payroll is a recipe for disaster. No part timer can more than 20 hours Your payroll is expected to be as low as 4%.  Company expects extremely high productivity from inexperience part-times and low paid. Very low morale. Sink or swim culture. Little to no training is offered to any employee including management.  Strenuous labor. "CYA"in-store management culture. Safety concerns the company takes no measures to reduce external shrink or protect employees in high-risk areas.  Products are based off of planed obsolescence model.

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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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