Not the most employee friendly place to work. - Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Sep 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good entry level job to start out.

Cons

Do not know how to treat textured. Favoritism. Bias. Not a good place to work for people of color. A lot of politics and very underpaid.

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Graybar Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We're sorry to hear that your experience at Graybar has not lived up to your expectations. We strive to foster an inclusive and fair working environment for all employees. Your feedback is important to us, and we are committed to continuous improvement. If you’d like to share more about your experience, we encourage you to connect with our HR team.

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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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