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HR Nightmare! - Anonymous employee Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

1.0
19 Jun 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great pay for management positions

Cons

Micromanaged by DM and HR. HR is based out of California and they try to manage associates without letting management take care of situations. Management can’t make a move without HR approval. What’s the point?

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Harbor Freight Tools Response
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We’re sorry to hear you aren’t having the experience you desired at Harbor Freight Tools, and we appreciate your detailed feedback, especially regarding management. Our goal is to be a great place to work, but that also means continually improving and listening to our Associates every step of the way. Please know that we will forward your feedback to the appropriate Associates. We appreciate all your hard work and look forward to your growth with us.

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Supply chain issues, many parts would never be replenished, despite being featured, advertised, and on display. That would often lead to tensions with customers. Aggressive time constraints on tasks. Sidewalk sales, holidays, and also coincidentally inclement weather days, can be quite busy and therefore stressful. Especially if there's call outs, but if you have a good management team, you'll have good staff that will want to work for them.

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