Weird and cult-like atmosphere - Customer Service Fleet Farm Employee Review

3.0
May 17, 2012
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Pros

The store is fun from a merchandise standpoint and you get to interact with many different customers. Other than that?

Cons

Bad training. Poor management. An atmosphere of paranoia. The place has specific and rigid rules that are stifling and soul crushing. If you punch in five minutes early or go over your lunch period by two minutes, you get a sit down with the manager telling you about it. It is a good place to shop but a mindless place to work. The employees are like robots and there is no place to use your mind in a place like that. Terrible training and you are thrown to the wolves so to speak. If you have a question, you are treated like an inconvenience.

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5.0
Apr 17, 2026
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Pros

Management was very nice. Fun environment to work in. Great scheduling.

Cons

Not very many cons at all. Maybe that some days we were short of staff in the back and had overloads of work to do and not enough time.

1.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There's a lot to learn, and working as a service writer helped me develop skills and aquire knowledge. I learned about everything from tires and oil filters to POS and inventory systems, warehousing, customer service, and the auto parts industry.

Cons

There is no end to the amount of hard work, and it'll break down someone's body in time. My spine started compressing from carrying tires, I injured my ankle and it never had a chance to heal properly, so I still have pain up to this day. If you're not 100% on time there's a real chance you will be fired, no matter how long you've worked there. I think there's a 3 minute window to punch in late, and that's it. After 3 late punch ins you're toast. Customers are always angry there because fleet farm doesn't have what they need even though they had it last time they were there. It's typical to see customer service being abused. In fact, I was verbally assaulted by an irate customer and was threatened and intimidated, and management did not back me up, which led to my resignation.

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