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Good Enough To Get Gas in the Car - Retail Cashier Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

2.0
Aug 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Decent people to work with -decent commission -Good enough to get gas in the car for college students, but terrible for full time employees that do this for a living

Cons

-yelled at by customers all the time -products are great if you only need it for one project. Construction people come in all the time to complain that things afters they beat the crap out of it like it's good De Walt power tools -computer system is archaic

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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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