Trust me, do not work here. - Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

1.0
9 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Established company, benefits and 401k are decent but haven’t changed them for decades

Cons

Pay is terrible, they haven’t changed their structure in 30 years. They advertise their Fortune 500 status to young college students but don’t offer any decent advancement until over 10 years of working there. Constant micromanagement that has caused almost the entire customer service team to quit. You literally can’t take a day off in sales without being behind because there isn’t anyone else to help them.

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Pros

Lots of experience, hands on learning

Cons

Lack of compensation ( money-wise)

3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
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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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