McMaster-Carr Management Development Program Trainee reviews

There is a specific way management wants every process to run (e.g. Write in the active voice, a comma should go here, apply this label here) which makes change management difficult for someone new. You do not have control over your career path and, as a supervisor, you feel like a talking head--that is, passing down the decisions made by the precious few in power at the organization. Even though the company attracts bright talent, it comes across as treating them like naive children. It's a disconnect to hire bright, creative minds and then confine them to a few approaches with limited influence/ownership. In the end, people stay around due to committment to the compensation.

Managements decisions are not only unclear, they are not disseminated to employees so your jobs expectations are not defined. As an employee, you go to work in fear that you MAY not be working to your managers unclear expectations. It is, by far, the worst feeling to live with that I have ever experienced. I would dread going in to work starting Sunday night and would relish Friday afternoons.