Poor leadership at store level - Assitant Manager Tractor Supply Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2025
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Pros

Generally friendly respectful customers. Good Corporate values

Cons

Many store managers are lazy so it’s hard to motivate the front end team members to do task. Managers seem to hang out in the back warehouse area. Trying to motivate employees to help customers and do the essentials of recovery and restocking is difficult because they look at how lazy the managers are. I respect the standard operating practices for Tractor Supply, but it’s hard to implement them when managers are lazy and favor certain team leads. I am speaking from an assistant manager position where I worked hard, but my effort was not rewarded in pay.

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Cons

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Cons

Words do not exist to adequately describe just how dysfunctional the FAST organization has become. The problem isn’t the people—it’s the structure. Every level of FAST is treated as second-class by Operations, but the hourly FTMs bear the brunt of it. They’re expected to execute impossible workloads while navigating resistance, conflicting priorities, and a complete lack of operational ownership. FAST leadership regularly talks about holding stores and Operations accountable. Yet the moment accountability creates friction or invites criticism, they retreat instead of standing behind their teams. The result is predictable: the people doing the work lose confidence that anyone above them will support them when it matters most. A department cannot succeed when it has responsibility without authority, accountability without support, and expectations without organizational commitment. That’s the reality of FAST today. It’s not just disappointing—it’s unsustainable.

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