It started out good, but as time went along it turned into a dead end job. - Material Handler Graybar Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent coworkers in the warehouse. Decent pay, great benefits, good time off. Willing to work with your schedule. Profit sharing and inexpensive stock shares with decent returns.

Cons

Stale management most have been in their positions 15 plus years. Lack of communication on updates to procedures. Pay increases kept dwindling year over year, even though you keep up or exceeded their expectations. No communication when you did something wrong, not constructive criticism. Problems were brought to you and a condescending type of fashion. Obvious favoritism in who they liked and disliked.

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5.0
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Pros

Strong department leadership in current role

Cons

Many senior team members with decades of stored brain knowledge that is hard to share

3.0
Apr 6, 2026
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Pros

Many opportunities to learn about distribution and management. Pto is three weeks per year plus holidays and over a s Week of sick time. If you work here longer, you can buy enough company shares to receive a sizeable dividend each year. You are allowed to buy about 5% of your salary in company shares per year and then receive usually 20% of that back per year. The profit sharing plan contributes 10% of your salary to your 401k account but you need to be vested to keep it all.

Cons

You will need a second job to live. Sales reps make way more and do half the work but they report to their managers much more. If you are a CSR, sales people feel entitled to treat you however they want and their manager will back them up. You are watched by coworkers and management like a high surveillance prison especially when you're new but they will leave you alone if you're good at your job after a year or so. Graybar brags about how much revenue and profit they make but middle and upper management suck it all up leaving scraps for the workers who made it for them.

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