Enjoyed working here - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

4.0
8 Jun 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great customers, understanding management, caring company. Example if you have children you're not scolded for needing to rush home to a sick child. I think that is so important at a job. To recognize as employees we do have lives outside of work. Because of this it makes you only want to work harder for them.

Cons

Needs better training for employees, and acknowledge the hard work some employees put in even if the branch doesn't make money it doesn't mean we didn't work our butts off to try meet the targets set out. The company as a whole did make money year end, a lot of money. Poor price points from manufactures made it hard to win jobs.

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5.0
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Pros

good people and wonderful training experience

Cons

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Graybar Response
6mo
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the training experience and the team environment. We appreciate you being part of Graybar and are glad to know things are off to a great start. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to your local HR team.
3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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