SALES/MANAGEMENT TRAINEE - Sales/Management Trainee Consolidated Electrical Distributors Employee Review

Let me start by saying I can only speak for my experiences. The company operates a lot like a franchise. The individual branch managers all have different styles and beliefs for managing. That being said my experience was awful. Base pay is awful, the insurance is archaic, and profit sharing is not a guarantee. IF your branch earns profit sharing it is divvied out at the managers whim. Could be a good thing or bad thing depending on your relationship with the manager. There is no way to calculate your "fair" share and you will be fired if you discuss how much you got. The manager WILL keep 40% and take care of their favorites first. regardless of seniority of job performance. CED is very reluctant to give raises. You are pretty much stuck where you start. When I asked I was told that if I were to get a raise then I would get less in profit sharing. Problem is you have no way of knowing how much profit sharing you should have got. They tell you that profit sharing is part of your salary and in the same breath tell you that profit sharing is not a guarantee. Working here was a constant barrage of NSFW emails and sexist remarks. I did recruiting for the company on several occasions and was told that women are not typically a good fit for the company and that I should be extra critical of their resumes. The work atmosphere was very uncomfortable. interoffice (sexual) affairs made the working conditions very tense and created an atmosphere of distrust. These issues were common knowledge and were never addressed, even when management was provided with proof. In one instance a manager hired his wife full time only to turn around and fire an employee of more than six years. The reason given was "money concerns." Please... That very year the manager had taken many extravagant sales trips with customers. Many of which were deliberately kept secret from the employees. Sales trips are part of the job but there is no good reason for keeping them a secret. Unless you don't want to give an honest answer for why profit sharing is down. I could go on but I think I made my point. You could wind up with a great manager who treats people fairly and wind up enjoying your time with the company. That just wasn't the case for me. There are much more professional companies to work for.