Great company to work for. Great for a long term retirment - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review

4.0
19 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Graybar was a great place to work and I would consider working there again. They have a very solid retirement plan that consists of 401k, Profit Sharing, private company stock, and Pension.

Cons

Graybar has an old school approach and they have a lot of long term employees. Many have seniority but also have become complacent. They are starting to clean up that act, but while I was there, I saw many "C" players that may have been "A" players at one point in their career. Also, the pay was below average. I started working with another company, doing essentially the same thing, and I earn approximately 25% more.

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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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