Avoid at all cost - Sales Associate Fleet Farm Employee Review

2.0
Apr 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing coworkers and generous discount

Cons

Corporate does not have a clue about how to run a retail operation, if your store is not in Appleton or Green Bay you will not get product. Certain popular, high dollar items will be out of stock for 6+ months, leading to customers being lost to competitors. There are no employees on a store level. Cost cutting has left skeleton crews to run stores. They say they can’t find anyone to hire but they only schedule 1 person a shift per department in order to save money. Crimes are committed against our customers in the name of profit. Selling defective, damaged, and dangerous products to lower shrink. Knowingly selling expired feed (that is also infested with mice) that will get animals sick, selling firearms with erroneous/incomplete paperwork, the list goes on. Anyone with ethics or integrity has ran for the hills or been sacked. GMs run their stores like personal fiefdoms, cruel and with an iron fist. Middle managers are yes men who don’t actually manage anything. There is no training to speak of, you will be hired and immediately thrown in after watching a couple of intro videos. Work environment is hostile and chaotic, from corporate to front end. You will be forced to commit unethical acts if you work here long enough. Pay is lowest in the industry and is below a livable wage.

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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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