Lack of support from management makes job unbearable - Store Manager Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
8 Mar 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Steady income, benefits, bonus opprotunities

Cons

Long, long, long hours. Early mornings, late nights, weekends, holidays, you name it. It's non stop. And even when you are "off", you're not truly off. Especially as a store manager. I constantly got phone calls from my employees, my city manager, my customers, my sales reps. It was never ending. Oh, and it says "salary" but it's not really salary because you have to turn in your time sheet every two weeks to make sure you are clocking enough hours. Yes, there is bonus "opportunity" but it is nearly impossible to get. When I started with the company, you did your job, you hit your numbers, you got your bonus. By the time I left 8 years later, it was impossible. The pay was pathetic unless you hit your numbers, too. Witnessed very, very poor support for a lot of the female employees that worked with, specifically the ones who wanted to have families. Unless you have NO life, and don't want to have a life outside of work, don't come work for this company. The best decision I could have made was to find a different job with a company that supported it's employees ideals, ambitions, and just it's employees as individuals. Because SW was NOT it in the slightest.

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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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