If you are young, reap the benefits, then leave! - Distribution Generalist McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
Jun 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart co-workers, good pay and benefits for the job you are doing, nice cafeteria, paid for education

Cons

Everything else. Management is a joke comprised of fresh out of college Ivy League students with irrelevant degrees such as Theater, Native Eskimo Languages, Etc., there is virtually no chance at advancement into management as a warehouse worker, the work is mind numbing and physically exhausting: I survived by listening to podcasts for 8 hours a day. Employees are fired at the drop of a hat so everyone is always on edge. If you sit back and observe the workforce, you will see the depression on the faces of the employees. Advice to job seeker: This place offers you golden handcuffs. Good pay and benefits for a low end job, but the trade off is no room for ambition, creativity, or autonomy over your career. If you are young I would consider going into the company, making money and getting a fully paid for education and then promptly leaving before the handcuffs get tighter.

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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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