I have applied for a part time sales support job at the local Fastenal and had an interview for the position, im not sure about the company and was wondering if any of you work there or have worked or had dealings with them? any input is much appreciated!!
When I need a bolt etc, I go there. They have it all. I love my local Fastenal.
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We have a corporate agreement with them... I have a pretty good relationship with my branch...
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Do you have to buy an entire bag of fasteners when you only need 2? That is my biggest complaint about them. I needed a special bolt once. Went in there and they had it but I had to buy a bag of 50. It was going to be around $100 for me to get my two bolts.
That and their prices suck IMO. We have one here in my town and they go through salesman about every month seems like. Not sure why but that is never a good sign. Good luck.
I spend a $hitload of money with them. They stock our bolt bins.
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Their headquarters is in Winona MN where I went to college. had a part time job there back in the day. good company. they have locations everywhere.
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Thanks for the replies guys this helps, i hope i get the job
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I worked there part-time while in college, about 20 to 30 hours per week depending on what all was going on at school (tests, etc.)
Your experience with Fastenal will depend highly upon your branch manager, or even your regional manager. Be advised that Fastenal makes it's money on doing more with less...that means no matter what you do or how hard you work, it won't ever be enough. There is no such thing as being caught-up at Fastenal, which wears you down. It's like you're always 3 days behind, and constantly having to apologize to customers. Most stores are severely under-staffed and it is done on purpose, normally at the hand of the regional manager. The regional manager gets paid his bonuses based on sales vs. overhead. There is more to it than just numbers of dollars vs. no. of employees...but a regional manager will hear nothing of it. The store I was in struggled to make $100,000 per month with 3 full timers and 1 part-timer. We did all we could to service the customers and get all the product sold and delivered, but had to always get an earful about not keeping the store clean enough, not making enough sales calls, not filling out the mountain of silly forms and surveys that corporate sent down the pipeline, and not counting inventory enough...there simply just wasn't enough hours in the day to do all that stuff...an extra employee or two would have alleviated that, but would be more overhead for the same sales dollars...get what I'm saying?
I was fortunate to have a branch manger that had some sense and was very easy to get along with. He had an understanding with me - as long as I was punctual, was able to work unsupervised, and took care of the customers, he wouldn't make me have to conform to or mess with a lot of the corporate BS that came down the pipeline. Dress code was always an issue for the regional manager and corporate, as they had a khaki pants/collared shirt requirement - 90% of the places I delivered to were dirty, hot, nasty, work environments where I always got good and dirty making those deliveries. There was no way I was going to be buying being new khakis and polos each week to meet the dress code...and the branch manager understood that.
You're a number to Fastenal, and that's all. At Christmas, your bonus is a box of candy they send to the store on one of their delivery trucks....on that box is your employee number, with a barcode...that's all you are there, and all you'll ever be.
So basically, it's okay for part-time, but don't plan on making a career there...you'll age twice as fast, if not more at that place. They wanted me to take over one of the stores as a branch manager and I turned it down...they thought I was crazy and hounded me about it for a week...I finally told them that I was in college and higher aspirations than branch manager at Fastenal...I thought they would fire me when I said that, but they just laughed and that was the end of that issue.
Most guys I knew that worked at Fastenal left for Grainger - they all got a much higher paycheck at Grainger, and a lot less stress too.
I just called Fastenal about two hours ago for some Spring bolts for my trailer. Nope, don't have em. Really? I thought they had every kind of nut and bolt there was. Of course, NO ONE is this town has them either. I guess I'll have to call Ranger.
I use to be a General Manager at Fastenal a long time ago. Working there can be a good spring board for getting into the Industrial and Construction Supply field.
I have worked in that field for over 25 years and Fastenal was my start. The field itself is a good one.
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My cousin is a Sales Manager at our local Fastenal and been there for about 5 years, he loves it.
15 years ago I worked at the West Sacramento store. Great company to work for if you ask me. I know several people who have made a pretty good career out of that company.
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I have an account with the local one and got along with the manager real well. Talking to him it sounds like a majority of the managers are younger i think he said the average was like 25 or something. He was older but they brought him in cause the area is heavy with farmers and they didnt like to deal with the kids. So he was there to get along with the farmers. Well he was here a few months and they promoted him up the chain and back down south and brought in a you guessed it young kid and the farmers i know dont like dealing with him.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by RoadrashPaul »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Do you have to buy an entire bag of fasteners when you only need 2? That is my biggest complaint about them. I needed a special bolt once. Went in there and they had it but I had to buy a bag of 50. It was going to be around $100 for me to get my two bolts.
That and their prices suck IMO. We have one here in my town and they go through salesman about every month seems like. Not sure why but that is never a good sign. Good luck.</td></tr></table>
Ditto
As a former consumer/customer of Fastenal's.....their prices suck.
We found the same item online for 1/6th the price. You can do the same if you take just a little time and research. We don;t buy anything there anymore....
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