Great place to work - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

5.0
19 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I love the people I work with and I love my job. Although progress is often slow due to our long term view as a company, there are a lot of people trying to push our company into the future and grow with the industry. Benefits are great, and employee ownership is a real point of pride for Graybar.

Cons

We are slow to change and sometimes different functional groups don't work together well enough

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Graybar Response
8y
Thank you for your review. We agree with you about employee ownership - it does set us apart! Regarding your advice, we believe under the leadership of our CEO, we will continue to move in the right direction.

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Cons

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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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