Ferguson reviews

Whenever I tell anyone about what I had to go through at Ferguson, people just look at me like I am crazy for staying there as long as I did. 1. The hours are terrible if you want to have any kind of a normal family. Ten hour days are mandatory and they try to give you this BS that you are salary but make no mistake, you are hourly. 2. Vacation or holidays- Even though you are expected to work ten hour days, you only get paid for eight hours if you take off on vacation or for any holiday. It prevented you from taking any kind of extended vacation from pretty stressful work because if you took a week vacation, you would lose out on two hours of pay each day that totaled for me almost $350. I noticed that they just put up on their website that they have a motto that they ``work hard, play hard''. How juvenile is that? Sure you work hard, but then you party hard to forget what a crappy company that you work for. 3. Company is run by folks that have been at Ferguson their entire careers. At first, this is what drew me to this company, but it was frustrating because they operate the company, just as they did when they started with the company. Every other job I have been at, we would consult with other companies to discuss best practices… At Ferguson, we just keep our head in the sand and keep thinking that it’s our way and that is it. 4. If you were a female trainee, I feel sorry for your time in the warehouse. 5. Hello, it is 2009, I think it’s time you all stopped working in a DOS operating system! 6. Ferguson cuts employees and closes branch’s yet they still allow branch managers and other higher ups a company leased vehicle and cell phones? This makes no sense, most of the branch managers never leave the branch! Why do they need a car? Why do warehouse supervisors and managers need a cell phone but sales reps do not? 7. You must not question management or else you are done. 8. Management doesn’t give a crap if you are not a sales person. When I was working in a non sales position, I would email my GM routinely and would get no response whatsoever. And we were also told that we were not supposed to go and ask him the question in person even though his office was right upstairs. 9. No exit interviews. I asked for one and was told that since I did not want to work for Ferguson any longer, it didnt matter what I thought. 10. You work Saturdays 11. Did I mention the mandatory 10 hour work days?

If you are a man, congratulations and welcome to the Boys Club - here, have a promotion and don't bother trying to earn it *wink, wink*. Ladies, watch your backs because the men are all going to be staring too. You WILL be sexually harrassed and you won't be able to report it because they are ALL members of the Boys Club and will retaliate - trust me. Most of Ferguson's employees who did not go to college have no respect for the work we have done and think we are spoiled brats and "lack common sense". That announcement was made by a manager in the middle of a meeting: I was the only college graduate in the room. It is a hostile work environment in every sense of the word. I struggled to earn peoples' respect and make myself indisposible to Ferguson and it backfired: now I am told that I am too important and cannot possibly be promoted or transferred because there is no one good enough to replace me. I'm supposed to be flattered about that. So I am stuck doing an Assistant Ops Manager's job, although they refuse to give me any such title. I called in sick one day after going in to the air-conditioned office and then back to the sweltering warehouse repeatedly. The next day my desk was permanently moved to the un-insulated warehouse where they refuse to turn on the heat or buy fans for us in the summer. I'm still wearing the steel-toes and polos I had when I started two years ago with no end in sight. WHY DID I GO TO COLLEGE TO BE A GRUNT?!?!