Fastenal Employer Reviews

Love the job, and my co- workers. I enjoy the laid back atmosphere, and the flexibility.

As general manager I learned how to successfully run a business while gaining customers and growing sales. A typical day consists of gathering orders, making sales calls and managing the daily operations of the store.

Work can be fast paced depending on department, packaging was less stressful. Can be trained on SAP systems and duties of other departments. Management could need better communication. Co-workers are generally nice, but low morale. The hardest part is paying attention to certain details.

fastenal is a fun fast paced place to work i needed full time picing of small parts and counting indivual pieces

Fastenal is a great company to work for with the opportunity to grow within. It is performanced based with the use of a monthly scorecard review that compares all the stores within the company. Our main objective is to grow the business through customer service. Each store manages a book of business related to their geographical area. I learned all – more... aspects to running a small business while working at Fastenal. The company excels at putting the right people in the right place that best benefits their skill ability. The most enjoyable part of my job is working as a teammate to obtain and exceed the company's set goals and expectations. – less

Fast paced
Long hours
Large variety of customers
Learn purchasing to receiving (and everything in between)

Pros: it's a job
Cons: mfg boss thinks he is a slave owner. He constantly wants his operators to prove themselves with un realistic expectations. He is from MN and thinks Californians are "lazy and spoiled" fastenal has done a good job keeping him sheltered. RT does NOT respect his workers unless they're from MN. Don't expect raises. They believe the – more... bonuses are good enough. Shop moral is really bad. You can feel the tension EVERY DAY. – less

I needed a job that could fit around my school schedule. I work 4 to 9 every morning.

Responsible for all daily operations.
Receiving
Stocking
Sales
Collections
Shipping
Scheduling
Pay Roll
Till
etc.

This company seems more interested in paying their stockholders than their employees. If you are single and need a starter job it is good just dont plan on supporting a family.

Its like any other job, calling costumers and getting there product on time. Doing call log, cycle counts, inventory, deliveries, doing faces to faces contact with our clients and making the store run smoothly.

When I started with Fastenal I was in College. After College I continued my relationship with Fastenal. Fastenal does a good job at recruiting college kids and teaching them about all aspects of business. I had a bad DM when I started there and it put a sour taste in my mouth. I will always look back and appreciate what Fastenal did for me as far as – more... jumpstarting my career in the real world. – less

Help customers with fasters for major company as well as small business. Fun place to work.

Fun, Fast Paced place to work. gruely work but fun bunch of managaers and people to work with

Standing still in one place all day but you can always get hours. Hire you in as part time so they don't have to give you insurance but want you to work full time hours.

This job allows you to not only gain sales experience, but also learn about a variety of industries by providing supplies to them

I would go in and receive the truck and start the day off with dropping product off to the customers. Then i would start doing cold calls and make sure the store is clean. I would be able to take my lunches when ever it was slow. Hardest part of the job for me was going to get new business. Its easy for others but was very difficult for me. I enjoyed – more... the employees that i worked with and we worked well as a team. – less

I enjoy my job, I have worked with many people with many types of personalities, Fastenal has a huge turnover because of school kids. I've worked in several departments familiarizing myself to how the company functions.

Fastenal allowed me to advance my customer service and sales skills exceptionally as my job focus was outside sales.

We would come in and get our equipment and head strait for our assigned sections and start pickin and packing.some managers were fine and my co-workers were great. the hardest part of the job was living off 25 hrs a week because thats all we were allowed.but i enjoyed the warehouse atmosphere.