Not Recommended To My Worst Enemy - Manager McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The Cons outweigh the Pros because money isn't everything.

Cons

WAREHOUSE: Having left and started a real career I am reminded by all the countless times the management freshers dismissed people or pretended to be sincere to their direct reports about their plantar fasciitis or wrist injuries. They all laugh about it on their shuttle rides home to Chicago. The "Management" team is toxic as every other post on here has mentioned. They are told by senior leadership in their meetings to treat you this way. Supervisors are playing the political game to get those Master degrees and collect your hard earned profit sharing at the end of every year so they can go on their wild vacation trips or have a sizeable vested retirements. You all should UNIONIZE. Lawsuits work too....look up their past ones. OFFICE: Be for real. You know the tech stack is terrible. Learning CAD or how to do VB is not going to help you in the real world. The weird way people must respond to customers is not a real skillset. Flexibility in the workday is now over. Whether it's RTO, monitoring personal Slack messages, or using the restroom too often, this is all noted for the annual performance reviews. You won't hit 25-30 years there and everyone knows that so they will PIP you until you leave (or terminated).

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

2.0
Mar 4, 2026
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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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