McMaster-Carr reviews

Very high pressure organization. You'll be lucky to make it to being fully or even partially vested, in their retirement plan. Don't be one minute late to work, even if there is a jackknifed big-rig blocking the entire freeway, they will still blame you, and say that you should have found a way to make it on time. Literally. Very physically demanding warehouse job, helps you to get a lot of exercise, but lots of injuries happen, especially repetitive motion injuries. Management is overly rigid and you feel scrutinized, every second. Loud work environment, bad for ears. Someone wrote, about this company, "prepare to get fired," which was an apt comment, which I echo. Even the people that manage to hang in for a couple of decades, fear being fired, any day. My nick-name for the company was "McMonster-Carr." They hire these management track kids, right after they receive their bachelor degree, to lord it over the rank and file, whom management prefers to have a master degree. Go figure. Management has an elitist attitude, but they are mostly kids. The turn over is dizzying.

Baaaaah. Where do I start? If you work here and you are not in management, you're a mindless sheep. Your thoughts don't matter and you live in fear. New managers literally couldn't do my job for the first 6-8 months I was there yet decided my fate. While I'll point out I wasn't a 5 star employee, I want to acknowledge the morale of that place was awful. I saw no reason to go 100% because McMaster operates on nothing but negative feedback. I was literally warned by a trainer in my first few months to just go with the flow and question nothing because questioning the operation is the easiest way to get canned. After a year of being talked down to and having my spirit stomped in, I quit. Only giving them 2 stars because that salary is a game changer if handled properly in the short term you'll be there. Mostly likely you'll quit too, good luck though =).