Horrible place to work - Order Picker Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are none. Place sucks

Cons

Management is terrible. Work conditions are terrible. Hours are terrible.

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Graybar Response
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We appreciate you sharing your experiences and feedback. It’s true that Graybar’s longevity provides a stable environment, and we’re proud of our history. However, we recognize that consistency in training and onboarding is essential to making every location a positive place to work. We are actively working to strengthen our training programs and improve guidance for new hires so they feel more supported and set up for success, no matter where they are. If you’d like to share more details about your experience, please email reviewfeedback@graybar.com.

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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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