Lost focus on what made the company great - Store Manager Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
17 Oct 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good Pay Excellent Incentive plan for management Upward Mobility

Cons

Where to begin. Since the change in leadership at the top the culture has transformed to one of do more with less tools and profits above ALL ELSE. Also focus has shifted to Lowes being the priority so we are left at the store level with no product to sell for months now and trucks that don't arrive on time. Then have to deliver news of a price increase to customers that we have been servicing poorly because of this. Upper management acts as if it business as usual pushing new initiatives weekly.

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Cons

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Pros

A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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