GASLIGHTING...not worth the benefits! - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

This place has the most toxic work culture. I read all the Glassdoor reviews and joined anyway...big mistake. It's worse than the reviews can articulate. Unless you want to hate getting up for work everyday, STEER CLEAR. There's a reason why the benefits are so good; they have to throw money at people to compensate for how awful the work is. This is a place where bullies thrive, not a place where ideas thrive. This is not a place where people can be honest. This is a company that operates on 0% trust and 100% micromanagement. There is a rotating door policy - having people leave regularly is normal and acceptable. The company structures the operation so that everyone is dispensable and replaceable, so no one feels valued. They'll just put someone else in your spot. You'll come back to your desk after lunch one day only to find out that the person sitting next to you an hour ago just got fired. Values are rarely talked about, except for cutting costs and squeezing the most productivity out of every last person. People succeed here by reinforcing the toxic culture and talking behind people's backs in order to get ahead. You can't get through a single lunch here without gossip because people are so terrified by the lack of transparency and tired of having to walk on eggshells. Expectations change frequently, but your performance relative to those expectations is hardly ever communicated so you never really know where you stand. There's also a two-class system: management vs staff. Staff can't make decisions, which fosters resentment and a lack of collaboration. It's very rare to move from staff to management, so there's no opportunity to grow. Do. Not. Join. The salary and benefits seem too good to be true because they are. Think about what this company has to over-compensate for in order to offer that kind of a deal...and even then the attrition rate is off the charts. Save yourself the stress. Another company may pay you less, but the mental toll of working for McMaster will cost you much more.