Best Company - Manager Graybar Employee Review

5.0
Sep 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Promote from within philosophy, available training, tuition reimbursement, loyal to hard workers. I see many reviews on here about low pay, negative working environments, bad managers, etc. As someone who "started from the bottom now we here", I can tell you that anything is possible with this company. There may be bumps in the road (like anywhere you could work), but treat your opportunity to work for Graybar as a career instead of just a job and take some initiative to go above and beyond. Try to see through the negative attitudes of some people and realize your own potential. Don't wait around for someone to tell you to do something or "tell me what you expect". Ask questions, learn, do the best you can do always and push yourself. Be creative and think of ways to do things better. Lose the "if I had their job I could do xyz..." attitude and just worry about your own performance. Stop acting entitled and never EVER say "that's not my job". Help make the people around you better and bring the company opportunities. It wont happen overnight, but do these things and you WILL be rewarded.

Cons

Technology needs some work (getting better though). Some managers have outdated styles (also getting better).

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong department leadership in current role

Cons

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

3.0
Apr 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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