| Category | Rating |
|---|
| Pay | -5 |
| Respect | -5 |
| Benefits | -5 |
| Job Security | -5 |
| Work/Life Balance | -5 |
| Career Potential/Growth | -5 |
| Location | -5 |
| Co-worker Competence | -5 |
| Work Environment | -5 |
To begin, I worked at LHUB and left Fastenal as fast as I could. After less than a year with the company, I realized very quickly just how things worked, and how Fastenal is the poster-child for what is wrong with corrupt American corporations.
Pay - Completely laughable. Hub employees were ONLY part-time, promised the potential of full-time, but strung along almost indefinitely. Most left to better jobs, very few promoted to other positions within the company. For most, having to have two part-time (or more) jobs just to get by is very stressful. This creates a less-motivated employee, who is less likely to buy into the Fastenal bleed-blue bullshit.
Respect - AHAHAHAHAHHA... Try disrespect. Every day, from all levels of management.
Benefits - For P/T employee's there are no tangible benefits. Well, having access to an entire warehouse of tools was quite nice.
Job Security - Please fire me, it's much easier to file for employment insurance.
Work/Life Balance - Well, when you work for Fastenal it is your life. Seeing what was required of branch GM's, to HUB GM's, RVM's, etc. was daunting enough to scare anyone with any intelligence away from said positions.
Career Potential/Growth - That whole test they make you do, just to apply for a PT Sales Support position is absolutely ridiculous. Something like 95% of people who applied for positions at LHUB never completed the exam, let alone apply for the position. Yeah, like I am going to spend an hour being tested by some corporation just for a PT job.
Location - Most branches are in the cheapest buildings possible, and that makes logistics a nightmare. No proper loading docks, some do not even have a single bay door, forklifts are few and far between and the one's that do work are mostly mechanically unsound. Yeah, lets push high-volume sales through our branches, but expect delivery drivers and warehouse personal to deal with ridiculous logistical situations.
Co-worker Competence - As horrible as to be expected. Low wages, little bonus or incentive, and horrible benefits. I can see the qualified personal lining up down the street now, waiting to apply. Oh, no, wait, I was wrong, they are running away.
Work Environment - Here's a recipe for disaster... Take one stud-cutting bandsaw, toss in a couple other high-power manufacturing machines inside the Hub. Mix with a few poorly-trained, totally unmotivated, stoners, er I mean hub employees. Apply to a highly dangerous application, like say, a sour-gas well, and let the Fastenal quality shine through. Also another great thing about working at LHUB was that it was almost a family business. I mean to say that the HUB GM Chad Sitar had his family doing a lot of the work, and getting paid quite nicely I might add... who needs ethics? They only make your bonus's smaller.
In closing, let me echo many of the other people who have reviewed this company after working for it by laying some rules:
#1 - Only work for Fastenal if you absolutely have to. Spend as little time employed by Fastenal as possible, and rip it off every way possible. Remember, Fastenal has people who spend all day just thinking of ways to make the company richer, and let's you exist only on it's crumbs. Oh, and when you do leave, no-one will be authorized to give you a reference, so have a story about being a missionary in Africa handy to explain the gap in your resume.
That's it, just one rule. DO NOT WORK FOR FASTENAL!! Go work for their competition, help put Fastenal out of business.
And remember folks, you can't spell A-N-A-L without Fastenal...