Treat Warehouse Workers Horribly - Warehouse Worker McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Sep 2, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits I guess

Cons

They treat warehouse workers like they are sub human. Gaslight and abuse them. They impose impossible standards and then have 21 year old recent graduate babies give reviews and tell you how you got 3 errors out of 1,000 orders and now you are fired. They then look at you blankly as you cry and then they go home in their Range Rovers that their parents bought (bc they came from generational wealth obvi) and tell their friends what a “lame” day they had bc they had to fire some 40 year old that’s worked there for 15 years. What a bummer.

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4.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay/benefits are incredibly generous - People are generally easy/nice to work with - Note that the Systems department seems to be fairly isolated from the negative issues discussed in other reviews (e.g. tension between warehouse workers and management) - I haven't experienced any of those issues within the systems department. In my opinion, Systems is a great place to work and develop as an engineer. - Hybrid work style (3 days in office). Personally, I like hybrid more than both fully in-office and fully remote styles. - Great cafeteria with good food and cheap prices. - Good work/life balance (outside of being on call, I can leave work at work).

Cons

- Work is not super interesting to me. I come from a highly technical, but very different (not ecommerce/industrial supplies), background where I was doing work I was much more interested in. No doubt there are folks in Systems who love the domain though. - While I'm not on call a ton (1-2 weeks every few months), I really hate being on call. I like to leave work at work. Note that joining at least one reliability team is expected within your first year or so.

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