They abuse you and pay you very well for it - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
8 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mixed feelings, if you can be okay with being abused and losing your dignity, you will be rewarded enormously.

Cons

The company essentially pays you well to tolerate abuse. The culture is sterile and fear-driven, and it feels as though anyone would throw you under the bus to protect themselves. Most people stay only for the paycheck and are ruthlessly protective of it. In the contact centers, terminations happen almost weekly. To survive, you must accept constant anxiety about job security and relentless nitpicking over even the smallest details—things as trivial as using the wrong font size in an internal email. That level of scrutiny is consistent across the entire organization. There is very little grace for mistakes. For individual contributors, the expectation is to work extremely hard during your scheduled hours, but once you’re off, you are truly off. For managers, the opposite is true: the culture demands long stretches of overtime, and those who stay long term often do so out of ego rather than maximizing financial incentive. Given the workload, senior leaders could earn more elsewhere with far healthier conditions.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
4 Mar 2026
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Pros

Good salary, guaranteed bonus, opportunities for overtime

Cons

Management changes constantly, managers are either fresh out of college or have never done your role or both, so I felt like I was managing myself. The metric standards are so high you have to essentially be perfect month after month. The standards are completely unrealistic, robotic, and leave little room for a bad day. There is PTO but you are only allowed to take it if there are “available hours” for that day - everything is about capacity and squeezing out as much work from as many people as possible. Taking time off affects your metrics for the month, which I did not know until after I took my first week-long vacation - they are always looking at your performance in terms of the past year, so I had to try to overwork and correct the bad month I had, when in my opinion your PTO should be completely YOUR time and have no adverse effect. Mentally and physically strenuous, whether you are on the warehouse side or office side - go to the bathroom too many times in a day and it will become an issue - they expect you to be glued to your desk/post. Like I said, no room to be human.

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