Retail Store Sales - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
27 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Benefits for a full time employee, the work is rather simple, yet labor intensive. Good place to work if you are fresh out of college and single, because they like to promote from within the company but relocation is a key part of their growth strategy, so expect to move with each promotion which is about every 1-2 years. If you thrive in a competitive environment this is the place for you. The managers and assistant managers are paid salary plus bonus. But the bonus caps off at 25% to the base salary and is calculated off of the stores Gross Margin "Do more, with less" is their motto. Only the management team has sales expectations.

Cons

Since Obama Care was made official the company is very vocal about not hiring full time employees, and part time employees are kept to a strict weekly average of less than 30 hrs. so the company doesn't have to pay health benefits. Non-managers are paid an hourly rate just above minimum wage. But hourly employees do not have any sales expectations, they just have to show up and take the customers money. (which puts additional stress on the managers) Many of the company's policies and pay structure make it challenging to support anyone other than yourself, Don't work here if you are expected to financially provide for a family in b eed of a stable living environment. Also, because HR is located off site, there is not a lot of consistency when dealing with an employee's good or bad behavior. There is a double standard both within the store and within the districts.

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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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