Overall a nice place to work - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

4.0
Dec 15, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits package is competitive for the area. Company is employee owned and stock options are offered. Retirement package is better than most if you turn into a "lifer" here.

Cons

Pay tends to be on the lower side of the market average based on education and work experience. Promotion from within can be a little hard to come by. Positions in management tend to open up about every two years.

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Thanks for leaving a review. We do our best to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package to meet the needs of all employees.

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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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