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      CEO and Board of Directors - Manager Graybar Employee Review

      1.0
      18 Feb 2023
      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Odd corporate set up and culture.

      Cons

      1.) Unlike many companies, everyone on the Graybar board of directors reports directly to the CEO. This creates a culture of yes men and women. This structure eliminates the checks and balances that most large companies have for solid leadership and decision making. 2.) There is an example of a person promoted to the board of directors even though they had a poor performance review. Seems odd that Graybar often promotes people with poor performance evaluations while at the same time demoting or terminating others. This is an odd culture developed from the CEO down. 3.) There is a lot of turnover or title changes in excess with senior level leadership. It seems chaotic at corporate.

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      Graybar Response
      3y
      Thanks for leaving a review. Graybar is a privately owned company - employee owned - and therefore operates differently than a publicly owned one. Publicly owned companies are required to have a board and that board will have outsiders involved. However, publicly owned companies tend to operate in the best interest of shareholders who consist of non-employees. This can mean making decisions that place stock prices over employees. Graybar operates in the best interest of its shareholders, who are only employees and retirees. The type of company you prefer to work for is a matter of personal preference.

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      5.0
      24 Mar 2026
      Sales trainee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great leadership at this local branch. Benefits were great. Education was great as well

      Cons

      None that I can think of

      3.0
      6 Apr 2026
      Customer service representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      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.

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