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Harbor Freight Tools

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Terrible place - Assistant Store Manager Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

1.0
15 Dec 2014
Recommend
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Pros

PTO, Health Benefits, employees were nice to work with

Cons

Cheapest company that I have ever worked for. They treat their employees very unfair the pay is terrible. You are expected to unload trucks and put it all away in a timely manor while trying to help customer and run register. Very high turn over! Customer clientele is as cheap as the products they sell. I would stay away from HFT!!

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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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