Competitive pay and employee discount, but toxic management
Pros
You get to work around tools. Decent Employee discount. Competitive starting salary. Industry standard Employee benefits.
Cons
I am unsure of other areas, but the district that I worked in (which includes most of North Texas [specifically the Richardson location]) may have become one of the worst places I have ever worked. When I was fist hired on, the store manager was almost never there, and one of the Assistant store managers was always condescending, and combative. The store went through a few store managers for a while, until we got Jeff. Not only was he the best Harbor Freight manager I ever worked with; he was in my top three people I've ever worked under... anywhere. He moved on to a different location and took the good ASM with him. That left our location with the terrible ASM, and a new SM. The new store manager is the second worst manager I have ever worked with. She has no communication skills, and cannot be bothered to coach and train. She is, however, very skilled in handing out write-ups... like it's her job. I received more of them in my last year there (under her) than in the rest of my jobs for all of my adult life... and I'm 50. Of course, she is empowered by the district manager, who always backs her play even if she is wrong. The same district manager who tried to convince me (during one of my write-ups) that Friedrich Nietzsche said, "be the change you want to see in the world". When I said that it was a statement that was misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, he said, "Yeah, but Nietzsche said it a couple of hundred years before him." Honestly, I hate that I was terminated by these people. I mean, what a blow to your ego.
