Pros
Money ONLY. Benefits & money is all.
Cons
Literally everything else. No promotions or opportunity for growth. Nobody cares about you. Super weird and toxic company culture. One way this shows up over and over again is in the new HR/People policies they've implemented over the past 2 years. They’ve automated all their people management systems which are totally rigid and are unable to make simple accommodations such as to swap an hour to go to a doctor’s appointment, or switch a holiday so you don’t have to work on Christmas. The holiday policies are absolutely offensive. Our overnight shift workers are expected on Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning. Then they “get” to take their Christmas holiday on December 26th. How nice. Same thing for Thanksgiving. They work all night through Thanksgiving morning, (when to sleep then?) and then “get” a holiday the day after. (Not helpful). These types of nonsensical people practices show up time and time again, yet no matter how many times we bring it to management’s attention, they make no changes. It is truly demoralizing, offensive, and hurtful to the workers. They feel alienated and disrespected. Whereas previously we used to feel a connection to McMaster and a responsibility to have our employers back (because we believed McMaster had our back), we no longer feel this way. McMaster no longer has our back, and everyone I know now stays only for the pay and benefits. It’s sad.