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Harbor Freight Tools

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Awesome staff. Poor work-life balance Decent Pay. - Sales Supervisor Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

3.0
May 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers, Decent pay. Internal Promotion.

Cons

Awful work-life balance. One day I will open the store next day I will close the store. Then I will open again. They only require 10 hours between each shift. Leaving me exhausted and unable to form any kind of routine for my life. It leads to employees burnout and poor performance.

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Harbor Freight Tools Response
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Thank you for providing us with your feedback. We always welcome the opportunity to hear from our hardworking team. At Harbor Freight, we value people above all else and we believe in creating a work/life balance for all our Associates. We want you to know that we have been continuously working to improve in this area and we encourage you to continue providing us with your suggestions. You can also reach out to your HR Partners to discuss any concerns. Thank you for your continued hard work and we’re glad to have you on the team.

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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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