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Harbor Freight Tools

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Bad management - Anonymous employee Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

2.0
20 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I enjoyed the subject matter product and helping customers out also while being able to learn about useful things and the people besides management were very good people.

Cons

Rude, disrespectful, and smart mouthed management. Had one assistant manager that ruined everything about the job. Corporate policies have unrealistic expectations on minimum waged part time employees or at least at the store I worked at did. Every time I worked it was almost guaranteed that I would be asked to stay over. I worked for five months at hft and during the time I worked there 11 people either got fired or quit because of just the miserable atmosphere that job had.

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Great benefits, fast paced environment, good teamwork. I liked the hours, you get an education about tools, whether from your coworkers or the customers. And speaking of the customers, they were on the better side for retail. Most are down to earth and easy to converse with.

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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