Great place depending on your store - Sales Associate/Keyholder Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
Jun 22, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The work you actually do is not much at all You’ll have regular customers/contractors and that bond can be pretty cool. Paint discount obviously. They are actively trying to diversify which is a good thing if your into that. Because stores are small, you as an employee “mean more” for lack of a better phrase.

Cons

Your day to day work life depends entirely on the store you work at. Mangers can be great people but terrible managers, and vice versa, but I’d say many are a good middle. Stores only have 4-6 people max, so if let’s say you have to take off, you might have to pull some strings as opposed to a bigger place with a lot of employees where you won’t be missed.

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Cons

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Pros

easy job with little work load and decent customer base

Cons

they cut my 401k for 6 months with no mention of when it was coming back, terrible CEO that everyone hated who cut jobs to save money for a new headquarter that we absolutely did NOT need, bought a random argentinian paint company to monopolize an already dying business and put the cost back onto the consumer by charging way more for paint. They also give discounts to national brands and apartment complexes that are literally less than what the store charges for paint and forces us to sell to them, losing money in the process ( for the individual stores but making them money since they own the whole manufacturing and distribution process and up-charge stores for products they require us to sell ). Overall climbing up the ladder is easy but upper management suck and will make any good hearted, hardworking manager quit in the long run.

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