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Harbor Freight Tools

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Harbor Freight Tools reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(3,449 total reviews)
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Eric Smidt

67% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Harbor Freight Tools has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,449 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harbor Freight Tools employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Dec 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a job.

Cons

* Non-existing safety training. Attitude and mantra is to "Spiderman" it. Example: Climb the shelf without a ladder to get something down. A female employee had fingers cut off by a huge defective 5' safe when she tried to move it by herself on a hand truck. It was not strapped down. Safety training had been stopped years before as 'too expensive' to do. Because nothing is in place to fast track workman's comp, no attempt was made to reattach the fingers by the hospital. Now the company blames the victim and they 'cut' her hours as well. * NO SECURITY! There are NO security cameras at this store located in a really bad neighborhood. The local "tweakers" know this and daily come in to steal because they know they can get away with it. Just recently the store was robbed at gun point. The cashier victimized by the robbery did not get training on what to do in such a situation. Neither was she offered professional counseling after the fact to help her cope with her ordeal. She is now terrified to return to work. * Because only part time hours are given, some people have to get a second part time job to make ends meet. Agreed availability is routinely ignored and employees will be scheduled in conflict with their other job or transportation restrictions (i.e., Bus schedules. They don't operate 24/7).

2.0
Dec 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I work in the Data Entry dept in one of their 2 corporate offices. We can wear jeans, sweatshirts and listen to our own music all day.

Cons

The pay is really bad. If you don't "need" the job to pay bills, then that's good because you won't get paid very much at all. You'll have to work holidays except for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Asking for time off around the holidays probably won't happen, either, unless you are one of the favorites. The work isn't very hard, but you still have to keep your numbers up or they will get rid of you. Overall, it's not the worst job I've ever had.

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