Graybar reviews

The pay is just simply not enough at Graybar. Especially for the amount of work you are tasked with doing. As a project specialist, you are tasked with entering and effectively managing the largest orders your branch receives. However, if you work in a smaller branch like mine, you will also be forced to run up to the counter to assist walk in customers, help answer any inbound calls on the main line, and even run to the back to help receive in shipments. It becomes impossible to do your job, and creates levels of stress that just isn't worth the pittance Graybar is willing to pay you.

Work-life balance is horrible. You come in and work like a dog. Outside sales reps do nothing but pawn work off on CSR’s, ISR’s. They meet with customers and play golf or eat and drink on the job. Don’t do their jobs. Quotes pod’s will not quote unless a OSR sends it to them. Huge boys club, if you like frat environments then look no further. Pay is below industry average too, if you want to make good money run away as fast as possible too. The 401k match is horrible. Have to put in 6% so they’ll do 3%. Employee stock is horrible. You’re giving the company a loan advance on available cash. They take your 20$ per share, and you get no return but 20$ in the future. 20$ now isn’t eh same as 20$ in the future. You get dividends of 10 cents and 30 cents and every 75 years they go crazy and maybe give you 1-7$ per share somehow. They just use your cash as available cash. Margins are thin in distribution. Not a good company to work for.