With the good there is some bad - Inside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

3.0
22 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great work environment, employee owned and profit sharing....(see below) you do get other good benefits though PTO and health care.

Cons

(wont see any of those employee owned benefits/profit sharing pay off for YEARS though) also mislead a bit about account packages as well as commission. No way you can make 50-60 in your first year.

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Graybar Response
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Thanks for leaving a review. If you are speaking about our sales commission plan, there are actually tiers to the commission rates, and the GM amount you mentioned would actually fall into the highest tier which is far above 3%. We know that these plans can be somewhat complex so we urge you to speak to your Sales Manager or local HR if you need help figuring out how your commission is calculated. Our ownership and profit sharing benefits are long-term benefits meant to help our employees have a healthy retirement, so it does take a little time to really see the benefits of those. However we offer a wide variety of benefits and advantages to our employees to serve them now and in the future.

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Strong department leadership in current role

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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