Getting too top heavy and micromanaged from the corporate office - Assistant Store Manager Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

1.0
Jun 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is fair but you can top out in your pay bracket fairly quickly. Store team can be fun and flexible.

Cons

Long hours, negligent corporate management, no profit sharing. Corporate(run largely by a bunch of white collar folks who have never run a store and who work in offices with convenient 8-4 or 9-5 shifts) makes policies and tells the managers how to operate their stores often to the detriment of morale and store function. Also just because the company is making more money than ever, and sales are up drastically- that profit (and bonus opportunity) is lost in the corporate world of budget increases and policy. 44 hours is the req. for Asst. Managers, and 48 for store managers- however with hours of 7-7 and a shortage of trained staff ( lost a bunch of skilled workers when SW dropped the full time clerk position) expect to pull a lot of OT and 12 hour work days.

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Cons

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Pros

A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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