The sales on boarding program has been slow, but beneficial and helpful. - Outside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

4.0
May 24, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people in all areas of the company are great, and the company focuses on promotion within, and the benefits are top tier.

Cons

Speed of growth is slow, the compensation structure changes frequently and so does management. The industry is a slowly adopting industry and can go into lull at any time.

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Graybar Response
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Thanks for your review. We agree that are people are great! Also, we have also pinpointed our onboarding process as something we'd like to take a look at and hopefully improve. If you have any great ideas, please share them with your HR director!

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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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