HR Investigations - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

3.0
Sep 12, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Graybar provides competitive wages, outstanding benefits including 401k, profit sharing, stock purchase options and an attempt to promote from within.

Cons

Worked for Graybar for over 13 years, rapidly moving up in the company, was asked to take over a facility that no one else wanted. Relocated my family only to fall to the infamous "hot line" calls tat are notorious out of the Austell Facility. The District HR failed the facility by not taking an a time role in employee issues at this facility. Subpar performers are allowed to remain on staff while top performers struggle to remain afloat. Misuse of the "Employee Hot Line" continues to ruin the lives of top performers within the company. No true investigative process(see information below on private party investigation).

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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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