Customer Service - Anonymous employee Graybar Employee Review
4.0
9 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
Former employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Great benefits, stock options and retirement plan.
Cons
Slow to change with a heavy focus on sales and service/operations seems to be undervalued.
Graybar Response
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Thank you for your comments. As an employee-owned company, we are known for providing excellent benefits that serve the diverse needs of our employees.
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the training experience and the team environment. We appreciate you being part of Graybar and are glad to know things are off to a great start. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to your local HR team.
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.