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Harbor Freight Tools

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over worked, under paid - Anonymous employee Harbor Freight Tools Employee Review

1.0
1 Mar 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

cool place, friendly co workers, flexible hours

Cons

everything else. get hired as salesperson for morning shifts, they have you do night shifts and unload trucks graveyard shift because the people for those shifts never want to work so they call out, get fired, etc. revolving door and giant game of hot potato, where everyone just passes each crappy shift off to someone else. they tell you you'll be working 8am-3pm but you get your schedule and you're 4pm-10pm then have to come back 5 hours later to work 3am-1pm unloading the truck. Real sales jobs pay more, real warehouse jobs pay more, this one makes you do both and pays as much as neither.

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great store leader. Great team to work with. The company cares about its employees. The pay is better than most retail places. Open door policy. Good work life balance. Fun place to work.

Cons

Not getting to work overtime often.

4.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, fast paced environment, good teamwork. I liked the hours, you get an education about tools, whether from your coworkers or the customers. And speaking of the customers, they were on the better side for retail. Most are down to earth and easy to converse with.

Cons

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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