Good Ol boys club. If your not a guy or a smoker, you will not fit in. - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

1.0
26 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay is decent. Many great customers who made it worth while to work in Hades. I can only hope Echo Electric moves to St. Louis to show Kathy Mozzarella what it's like to have competition.

Cons

No recognition for good work unless you are a favorite. Some people get taken out to lunch meetings. Others never get a chance to meet with their customers to build a great working relationship. When review time comes they get blamed for not selling more or, accused of losing sales. Be careful of the perfect co worker who goes to the branch manager to give some of their accounts to you. That co worker then compares last years sales that they did to yours. If you aren't doing as well due to slow down in market, you get pulled into the office and grilled.

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Pros

Strong department leadership in current role

Cons

Many senior team members with decades of stored brain knowledge that is hard to share

3.0
6 Apr 2026
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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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