Good Potential but Menial Work - Assistant Manager Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
Apr 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, good amount of time interacting with people from all walks of life ( think networking potential), unlimited upward mobility options, good benefits program

Cons

the day to day work in incredibly menial. No amount of staff support to tend to customer interactions, basic cleaning duties, or anything else. What this means is that you have a gigantic pile of basic part sales clerk work to do to keep the store running and in store customers satisfied, these are NOT used for metrics on reviews or promotions. The things that ARE measured on metrics are the behind the scenes parts, building a customer base, upgrading customers, finding new customers, training staff ( if you have one or two people under you) are typically put on the back burner to simply keep the store running. Expect to work at least 10 hours every week overtime, off the clock.

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Cons

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Pros

A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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