Graybar reviews

3.4

49% would recommend to a friend

(379 total reviews)
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Kathleen M. Mazzarella

60% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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1.0
Oct 12, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Vacation and healthcare are good.

Cons

Work-life balance is horrible. You come in and work like a dog. Outside sales reps do nothing but pawn work off on CSR’s, ISR’s. They meet with customers and play golf or eat and drink on the job. Don’t do their jobs. Quotes pod’s will not quote unless a OSR sends it to them. Huge boys club, if you like frat environments then look no further. Pay is below industry average too, if you want to make good money run away as fast as possible too. The 401k match is horrible. Have to put in 6% so they’ll do 3%. Employee stock is horrible. You’re giving the company a loan advance on available cash. They take your 20$ per share, and you get no return but 20$ in the future. 20$ now isn’t eh same as 20$ in the future. You get dividends of 10 cents and 30 cents and every 75 years they go crazy and maybe give you 1-7$ per share somehow. They just use your cash as available cash. Margins are thin in distribution. Not a good company to work for.

1.0
Oct 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Established company, benefits and 401k are decent but haven’t changed them for decades

Cons

Pay is terrible, they haven’t changed their structure in 30 years. They advertise their Fortune 500 status to young college students but don’t offer any decent advancement until over 10 years of working there. Constant micromanagement that has caused almost the entire customer service team to quit. You literally can’t take a day off in sales without being behind because there isn’t anyone else to help them.

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