Avoid this employer! - Warehouse Associate Graybar Employee Review

1.0
22 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Medical Benefits are decent compared to some.

Cons

Micro management. Unequal distribution of tasks. Unequal treatment of departments by management. No open door policy. HR is impotent. Shady business practices in inventory, lying to customers, and lying to employees.

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Graybar Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to provide us with feedback. You bring up some important concerns related to culture and dishonesty. Open communication, including listening to our employees is a priority for our organization and our culture. We have several ways for people to share feedback (formally and informally), many of which are anonymous, but we will keep improving to make sure our associates feel heard. Please know we place great importance on honest behavior and we strive to create trusting relationships between our team leaders, customers and employees. If you would like to discuss further, please reach out at glassdoor.feedback@graybar.com.

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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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