Do Not Work Here! - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

2.0
Mar 26, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, People, Employee Ownership (Stock)

Cons

People that are promoted to mangement are done so based on preformance not on if they have the right qualities. Lack of training for staff, lack of communication of direction from management, meetings about nothing useful to the worker, management beats employees into submission without anything good to say. As an inside sales rep you spend more time being a CSR then you do selling, then get pounded by management for not selling enough. Pay is TERRIBLE, and so is sales compensation TERRIBLE. Management only gives top accounts to reps they want them to go to not people that deserve them, all top accounts for 2 reps out of a 14 rep sales staff can you say fishy, also goes along with poor management of people. I am serious do not waste your time selling for this company it is a joke, I can make more selling at Home Depot.

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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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