Would rate no stars if I could - Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great products Many locations Some employees really do try

Cons

Corporate management is out of touch with their branch employees. Some local branches are run by favoritism and nepotism. HR is easily manipulated by local managers leaving employees with no recourse to save their jobs. Employee reviews are often based on incorrect information or outright lies, and your comments are ignored, leading to wrongful statements in your personnel file (which can lead to the loss of your job). Entering data seems to be more important than sales results. Sales credit for your efforts is often stolen by someone else who is a long standing employee or can work the system.

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Pros

Lots of experience, hands on learning

Cons

Lack of compensation ( money-wise)

3.0
Apr 6, 2026
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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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