Worst work experience of my professional life - Business Analyst Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Oct 29, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee-owned company offers great financial opportunity. Good benefits package. Generous severance package.

Cons

When I was there, I noticed there were basically two employee cohorts: long-term employees and new employees. There were very few in between. I think like any large organization, your experience depends a great deal upon your work group. Unfortunately, I have never worked with a more unpleasant group. I about did cartwheels the day I was laid off, even though it meant I was back on the job search. The severance I received was very generous considering the length of time I was there.

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Pros

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Cons

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

3.0
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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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