Grainger reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,991 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Grainger has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,991 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Grainger employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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5K reviews
1.0
May 19, 2016

Sales and Customer Relations

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You make wonderful friends. I don't have 20 positive words to say about Grainger.

Cons

They are not afraid to publicly humiliate you, especially during the daily huddles where they show off your numbers to the rest of your team. During the month or more of training they barely mention "numbers," then once you're at your desk every moment of your time is micromanaged and every week you'll have a private meeting where they tell you to "perfect" your numbers all while singing "We understand you can't be perfect." They will NOT work with you on days off for emergencies or family issues unless you are the star pupil. Death in the family or emergency medical issues, if you don't have an ETO left (2 per year) you get an "occurrence." Five occurrences and you're out, and they don't care much for doctor's notes. If you acquire any write-ups you are automatically disqualified to move forward to other, higher positions for a four month free-of-issues period of time. They want to expand their Voluntary Time Off (VTO, for when the calls are slow and they send people home for the day), but fail to tell you that the more VTO you take the higher chance they will drop you down to part time because you are not consistently working 40 hour work weeks. Every single day you will get angry Territory Sales Representatives that complain about the way they are treated. Every single day you will get customers who will blatantly tell you they hate where the company is going. You will be forced to pressure each customer into paying shipping costs when most people just want to pick their order up.

3.0
Apr 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great profit sharing program Average benefits for medical, vacation, etc Friendly, helpful people work there.

Cons

Very difficult to understand the company direction Goals are one way this year, completely different next year Lots of talk about transparency, not a lot of honest talk, however.

2.0
Mar 31, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

4 weeks vacation a year, option to work overtime, if you like overtime that is. Usually a good core of solid associates.

Cons

Management will micromanage you on your job without knowing how to actually perform your job functions. Very last minute with making critical decisions like mandatory overtime, always on holidays! "Merry Christmas! Now say goodbye to your wife and kids!" Management does not care about you, your family, or work/life balance. Whenever a tough question is brought up to management it always gets deflected or flat out ignored. Basically management looks out after each other and no one else.

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