Great company - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

5.0
Oct 7, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Graybar's employee ownership structure provides employees with a way to invest for their future and creates a culture characterized by integrity, customer focus and a long-term perspective. The benefits are great, and it's an excellent place to build a career. Graybar has a strong reputation as a leader in its industry and as a solid citizen in the communities where it does business.

Cons

Change can be difficult to implement in a company with a history dating back more than 140 years, and sometimes internal challenges get in the way of progress. But because of the employee ownership structure, people want to do what's necessary to help the company and its customers win, even if that means making difficult changes.

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Strong department leadership in current role

Cons

Many senior team members with decades of stored brain knowledge that is hard to share

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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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