A job, not a career - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

3.0
2 Dec 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- excellent compensation and benefits - HR is knowledgeable and helpful - no overtime - Cafeteria food is pretty good and there's a good selection in the many vending machines (I'm easy to please) - co-workers - wicked smart and totally awesome, and totally underappreciated

Cons

- 12 year-old managers (well, barely out of college) with zero work experience and even less social skills - micro-management at its finest - favoritism IMO - consistent in its inconsistency regarding goals and procedures - in a broader sense, it is apparent, especially these days, that the company is too reactive rather than proactive in keeping up with the changing marketplace and employee culture.

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Cons

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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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