Great benefits, but high expectations at work - Distrubution Associate McMaster-Carr Employee Review

5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Benefits (Tuition reimbursement, healthcare, retirement)

Cons

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

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5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent benefits and salary. Great job for stability

Cons

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2.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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