Good for first job out of college - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Sep 26, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to get your start in the industry. Then move on to another company. Benefits are ok.

Cons

Graybar is behind the times . Pay is terrible. You have to work for a very long time and be in outside sales to make money . I talked to other women that had been working there for years and making low 40’s. I wouldn’t stick around that long and suffer. It’s decent if you just got out of college and be your first job. As an adult with bills you will barely survive.

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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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