Won’t listen, culture lacking - Generalist Worker McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
May 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Health insurance and profit sharing are good. You work with many nice people who are creative and smart, it’s cool to see what people create out of the things we sell. There’s opportunity to create a nice culture and good place to work with the work life balance and primarily remote work schedule. The work can be repetitive and challenging at times, but working from home makes it manageable.

Cons

Hired under impression of only having in-person office days 3 days a month that would be focused on development and team building. The team building and development in the office is only an hour or 2 across the 3 days, hardly worth it but accepted. They are now changing to 3 days a week with no input from staff. The time in the office for generalists is a waste of time, the work is not collaborative, the commute is draining, and there aren’t even enough desks or conference rooms for everyone even before the new schedule. Everyone feels more productive at home, where we are chained to our desks anyways but at least save the commute time.

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5.0
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Pros

Great Benefits (Tuition reimbursement, healthcare, retirement)

Cons

Expectations are high. You are expected to work while at work.

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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