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      Harbor Freight Tools

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      Harbor Freight Tools reviews

      3.6

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (3,450 total reviews)
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      Eric Smidt

      67% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,450 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harbor Freight Tools employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      3K reviews
      2.0
      Dec 17, 2012

      Stressful environment

      Assistant manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

      1.0
      Nov 11, 2012

      You Are A Number. Nothing More.

      Retail associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A paycheck. A part-time paycheck. As long as you are willing to have Open Availability (kinda hard to make this a 2nd job, eh?) hit the next-to-impossible quotas, hawking **USELESS** extras like the Extended Serivce Plan and Inside Track Club...and you are willing to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING asked of you.

      Cons

      --Having to deal with clueless idiots for management. --Nasty, rude, smelly customers that may or may not understand English. --The fact that you will ALWAYS be part time, or in my case, have your Full Time hours and benefits cut off without warning. --You can be fired for literally ANYTHING at ANY TIME

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