Sherwin-Williams reviews

Long, long, long hours. Early mornings, late nights, weekends, holidays, you name it. It's non stop. And even when you are "off", you're not truly off. Especially as a store manager. I constantly got phone calls from my employees, my city manager, my customers, my sales reps. It was never ending. Oh, and it says "salary" but it's not really salary because you have to turn in your time sheet every two weeks to make sure you are clocking enough hours. Yes, there is bonus "opportunity" but it is nearly impossible to get. When I started with the company, you did your job, you hit your numbers, you got your bonus. By the time I left 8 years later, it was impossible. The pay was pathetic unless you hit your numbers, too. Witnessed very, very poor support for a lot of the female employees that worked with, specifically the ones who wanted to have families. Unless you have NO life, and don't want to have a life outside of work, don't come work for this company. The best decision I could have made was to find a different job with a company that supported it's employees ideals, ambitions, and just it's employees as individuals. Because SW was NOT it in the slightest.

Most cons in my eyes were people/staffing (read: money) based. The company is not ready for the millennial generation. Work life balance is given very little consideration. Modern workforce trends are towards working to live, not the other way around. The IT infrastructure and governance is also a mess, forcing many positions to work harder and longer instead of smarter. Burn out, frustration, and cynicism. It's now in abundance in the field. Despite 20%+ growth in the last six years, professional staffing has remained constant or even been reduced. Meanwhile, transactions, goals, and dashboards have only grown or been expanded upon. Something's got to give, and guess what- it's the professional's attitudes and it's toxic straight down to the average Joe Nobody. What should be positions for the specialized or subject matter experts are getting back filled by amateurs with a year or two of mediocre performance at best. There is major brain drain and knowledge of processes is being lost, causing numerous issues with performance, quality, and service. This is not a cutting edge company. Hell, two of the main information databases that were used as of 2015 (Stores and GSC platforms) are freaking DOS based.