"fake it til you make it" - Sales Representative Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's mostly a show job either dealing with contractors or DIY customers. The job itself is quite easy, you stand around waiting for a call or a customer or you're putting away truck orders.

Cons

Until you know EVERYTHING in the store you'll never feel comfortable giving people advice. I wished in my down time I could've had a book to read about our products but my boss literally told me "fake it til you make it" and usually that's solid advice but I was not willing to ruin someones new deck stain or the siding of their houses... ***ALSO FOR THE WOMEN*** once you hit 90 days you are given keys and can open and close and run the store alone. A lot of these contractors are creeps. In the three months I worked there I had two come behind the counter and touch me and another time a guy made some crude remarks INFRONT OF MY BOSS! He made a report of it and stuck up for me which was nice but just know that you'll more than likely be alone around desperate men.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

easy job with little work load and decent customer base

Cons

they cut my 401k for 6 months with no mention of when it was coming back, terrible CEO that everyone hated who cut jobs to save money for a new headquarter that we absolutely did NOT need, bought a random argentinian paint company to monopolize an already dying business and put the cost back onto the consumer by charging way more for paint. They also give discounts to national brands and apartment complexes that are literally less than what the store charges for paint and forces us to sell to them, losing money in the process ( for the individual stores but making them money since they own the whole manufacturing and distribution process and up-charge stores for products they require us to sell ). Overall climbing up the ladder is easy but upper management suck and will make any good hearted, hardworking manager quit in the long run.

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