Treated like a dog paid worse than a dog. - Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Nov 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only pro is if you are out of college and looking for experience to put on a resume. The employee stock program is decent but not worth being a slave that gets talked down to everyday.

Cons

Never felt like less of a human and more of a disposable number than when I worked at Graybar. Was paid such a low wage and constantly told how I should be lucky I even have a job despite barely affording to live. FYI your employee stock program means nothing to anyone when you pay such low wages you have to live in poverty for 30 years to make it even with it.

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Graybar Response
6mo
We’re sorry to hear about the frustrations you experienced, as this isn’t the type of environment we want any employee to feel. We take concerns around pay, treatment, and overall experience seriously, and your feedback will be shared with the appropriate teams for review. If you'd like to provide additional details, please reach out to reviewfeedback@graybar.com

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Pros

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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