Found a grat company to work for - Inside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

5.0
14 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pros would be the companies investment in their employees. The comradery with my fellow co-workers. Pay that is structured to effort and the ability to learn a business that is vital to the development of town's, neighborhoods and cities. Having a amazing support staff to work around is another pro that has aided in my satisfaction with this company. It's a 8-5 Monday through Friday work week and plenty of holidays too. I worked retail as a manager for over a decade prior to me working at Graybar. I remember coming into work and feeling anxiety about my store's performance and the constant micro-managing I had to endure daily, weekly and monthly. I lost the passion for my previous job and wondered if it was something that I could regain after being beaten down year after year. Then came a day where everything changed. I attended a job fair and met my current boss and well the rest has been history. I enjoy waking up for work everyday. I enjoy the quality of life that has been vastly improved over the past six months, I also enjoy having something to be passionate about and encourages me to invest in myself to improve and to constantly challenge myself day after day.

Cons

Not having standing desks. Décor in the office is from 1992.

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Graybar Response
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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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