Good place to work, just don't expect any promotions. - Shipping McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Jan 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are great, work is fairly easy. Company shares its profits with employees. School is paid for completely and they also will pay a portion of your child's college. Insurance is paid by the company for the entire family. Excellent medical, vision and dental plans. Company is controlling their growth which leads to a more secure company. It is a nice job if someone wants to stay in one secure place for a long time, there is not a lot of movement in the company unless someone really impresses and make it known they want to do a lot. If not you can stay in the same position for many, many years.

Cons

No clear path for advancement, IVY league is a shoe in but everyone else stays put. The company does not post any job openings in the branch, a manager will walk up and tell you that you start in a new department in x amount of days. If you say no then you stay put for a long time, everyone knows to always say yes when the want to move you. Anyone from an IVY league school will be brought in as a supervisor or manager even if their major is not in that field, people skills are not required.

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Cons

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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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