Graybar is doing a horrible job taking care of its employees during COVID-19 - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

1.0
18 Mar 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Profit Sharing Free coffee and tea

Cons

Graybar doesn't have a real plan for dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, which is understandable as I'm sure most companies don't. However, my main issue is that we are forbidden from working remotely, even though we have the capability. The majority of us have laptops with VPN access (which isn't even required for everyone's role) and a Webex account. There is zero excuse why we can't. Instead, Graybar decides to risk our safety by having us come in everyday during a pandemic. Today, we had a call with one of the VPs who told us that Graybar is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Critical Infrastructure Sector. I'm not sure if that's true, but there are still companies who are part of those sectors that are allowing employees to telecommute. So instead, he tells us to spread out on our floor because apparently there's plenty of room and there will be zero people working remote. The world could be on fire and Graybar would still tell its employees to come into work.

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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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