Current Supervisor - Warehouse Supervisor McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Aug 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great temporary job used as a spring board for further education and real career elsewhere.

Cons

I would like to shoutout the Atlanta branch specifically for being an especially soul crushing place. There is most definently a select group of people in management that promote one another and look out for eachother at the expense of everyone else. This is definitely a "boys club" environment, even though company tries hard to look inclusive on paper. People, do not be fooled. It becomes very evident in a short amount of time that several of my peers have been promoted that were clearly not qualified or competent enough for said roles. The biggest problem for this company is the bloated salaries of middle management who literally do not financially contribute anywhere near enough (as in comparison to staff) to justify said roles. It is a twilight zone here.. be prepared to work hard but not while actually using a modicum of your intelligence. Briefly I would like to warn future job seekers, these complaints and criticisms are 100% real and the abnormally postive reviews on this site just aren't.

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Cons

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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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