Worst company to work for. Toxic work environment - Management Trainee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Feb 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay and benefits. That’s it.

Cons

- Everyone is out to get you from day 1. Very toxic work environment with people ratting on you and you are constantly walking on eggshells or watching your back because management promotes toxicity -Warehouse work is not only laborious on your legs but also gross. Know if you are joining the management that you might be put in the warehouse which is literally a horrible, noisy, filthy, and annoying place to work. It feels like you are working in a prison with barely any windows. It’s like the opposite of working in a nice office in a nice building. - Lack of actual learning and development. If you work in management, you barely know anything about hard skills because the company uses a very antiquated system and barely gives you opportunity to learn anything transferrable. Their inventory management system was discontinued by the developer because it’s so old and outdated. This company does not invest in technology or innovation and is fine running inefficiently. - People are toxic and it seems very cliquey like you are in high school. Rarely will you meet your coworkers outside of work since the work place environment is so toxic that everyone just wants to be away unless required to be there

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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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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