Not great - Branch Administrator Graybar Employee Review

2.0
8 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The employees I work with are great and the company has pretty good benefits.

Cons

The company and management don't make you feel like you're a value or asset. Getting ridiculed for trying to better yourself and move up within the company happens frequently with some management. They got rid of the pension plan for new or returning employees last year (2015). The company doesn't pay well, and having started working with a bachelors degree, I make the same amount as other employees right out of high school or employees younger with no experience and just a high school diploma. Politics are a major part of this company and whether you move up or not.

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Pros

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Cons

Lack of compensation ( money-wise)

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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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