Great at first but time and feelings change - Sales Graybar Employee Review

2.0
12 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Benefits Profit Sharing Some of your co-workers

Cons

Some sales reps shouldn’t be sales reps. When someone has been there for 2+ years and doesn’t know the difference between romex and MC that’s a problem. When you voice your desire to be in sales they’ll just shut you down and promote someone else with less experience You have certain coworkers who come and go when they please and just dump their workload on others and they get the credit for doing nothing

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Graybar Response
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Thank you for your review. While this is disappointing for us to hear, we appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. Supporting our employees and creating an environment where everyone can reach their full potential is important to us. We encourage you to speak with your manager or HR regarding your development plan.

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Many opportunities to learn about distribution and management. Pto is three weeks per year plus holidays and over a s Week of sick time. If you work here longer, you can buy enough company shares to receive a sizeable dividend each year. You are allowed to buy about 5% of your salary in company shares per year and then receive usually 20% of that back per year. The profit sharing plan contributes 10% of your salary to your 401k account but you need to be vested to keep it all.

Cons

You will need a second job to live. Sales reps make way more and do half the work but they report to their managers much more. If you are a CSR, sales people feel entitled to treat you however they want and their manager will back them up. You are watched by coworkers and management like a high surveillance prison especially when you're new but they will leave you alone if you're good at your job after a year or so. Graybar brags about how much revenue and profit they make but middle and upper management suck it all up leaving scraps for the workers who made it for them.

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