You won't be appreciated - Driver Graybar Employee Review

1.0
16 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

pay was 17/hr I guess

Cons

Work here if you want to but don't be a driver. One of the worst experiences of my life. You'll be ready to go with the materials and they'll tell you they forgot some things and add more stuff where you have to leave later than when you wanted. You will get blamed for everything that goes wrong. Having this done every now and then is fine but the fact that it becomes a constant thing is when it starts to eat at you. After a few months of being there, there started to be a favoritism towards a particular driver which led them to getting short routes all the time and that to me is utter bs since the routes are (or were) supposed to change every day. The warehouse people think they own you and can boss you every which way. I will end it here because I am tired of typing but know this is not even a quarter of the bs that you will go through as a driver here. STAY AWAY.

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