Employee morale is diminishing, does not feel like an employee owned company - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review
3.0
Oct 25, 2017
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 8 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
If you have invested a lot of years and money into their stock, it will supplement your retirement.
Cons
Constant push for more sales from upper management. Employees who are not in the sales department get little to no acknowledgement for their hard work.
Graybar Response
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Thank you for your review. As an employee-owned company, we wholeheartedly believe our employees are the key to our success, and we value everyone’s contribution - sales and non-sales employees - equally. I’m sorry you feel like this is not your experience.
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the training experience and the team environment. We appreciate you being part of Graybar and are glad to know things are off to a great start. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to your local HR team.
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.