-Pay is horrible
-Half blue collar job
-you will be surrounded by uneducated people or part time retirees at the branch level
-company is built to hook you in and keep lower quality talent. College educated talent can find much better
-company is EXTREMELY disorganized. Systematic issues from up top (district level and higher broad strategy level) trickle down and leave the branches to fight for themselves
-branch level deals with BS from customers and most importantly BS from internal systemic problems
-culture talks about integrity yet gives employees opportunities endlessly to steal and scam which has led to many customer facing issues. I wouldn’t trust Fastenal if I was an outsider as it’s very personal dependent (their systems are so bad it allows for stealing/scamming)
-CEO is a quack weirdo