Pros: keep working hard and you will keep your job, smart move for a college student looking for a management position on a their resume, great temporary position with excellent pay while seeking desired job
Cons: extremely physical and psychologically draining work, low pay for those not in management
All of these reviews are written in a manner that the author is anticipating management to be reading their comments! Perhaps, they are going to be sure to make it known that they posted here! The posts zing with glowing reviews of a worker's paradise and "look at me" puffery of how smart and capable they are as they bestow their ability to "promote"
– more... the company to success by their very presence. Surely, this is done with the hope that it will be instrumental in the advancement of their career! The top of this food chain is throwing their heads back with laughter! Unless you are in your 20's and fresh out of college, this is a horrible company to work for!! The manager who posted that you are just a number with this company told the truth! If you get on with this company as a part-timer or just a regular full time employee, don't plan on advancing with the company! Trust me! I have witnessed employees work over 10 years before getting promoted to asst. manager and it was rare at that! This company recruits wide-eyed youth, fresh out of college, and quickly slaps them into the position of an asst. manager with a mandatory 44 hour work week, paying 35k with benefits. Does anyone ever have their adrenaline slow down enough to ponder why? You will more than earn every red cent of it! It is a win-win situation for SW! You are nothing more than a STRONG warm body; a grunt to get out and roll out paint....as much of it as inhumanly possible! This is not a typo. I said, "inhumanly". That is only because they haven't figured out how to replace you with a machine, yet! They will keep you as long as you can stick it out. If not, that is just fine! There is always another young, ambitious, wide-eyed college kid who will slip into the slot...just like a pez head! You will be fast-tracked to an asst. with the promise of "someday" for the position of "Manager". Don't hold your breath. You will often hear, "Just keep doing what you are doing" in your quest for a promotion. Meanwhile, you will break your back, relentlessly, unloading trucks and tinting & slinging 60-100 lb buckets of paint all day long! You will rarely get a lunch break, if ever! Forget about a break! You will have to learn to hold your water and hold your bowels, too!! The stores are grossly under-staffed and the customers coming thru the constant revolving doors could care less! Of course, in all fairness, they do not know that you probably have not eaten or that it has been 4 hours since you went to the restroom. With that said, they have a job to do and are always in a hurry! That means you must be, too! Then, they are standing there 20 deep! Many don't bother to remember what they ordered on previous jobs because they have it engrained that it is your job to be their bookkeeper and secretary! They expect you to remember what they can't even though you serve hundreds of customers just as important as they are! There are also those who don't know what they want when they get there. Meanwhile, the company's constant drill is to get them their paint and out the door QUICKLY! You can NEVER be quick enough! While this is going on, the phone is constantly ringing with customers who want to order paint...rudely getting in front of the customer that you are trying to help...or they want you to get on the computer to research their account BEFORE they can get around to ordering the paint. This is when the delivery TRUCK will arrive at the dock with pallets of paint and supplies to be unloaded, asap, so the driver can get to the next store in the time alotted by SW. Often, the customers treat you poorly because they have learned that Sherwin Williams EXPECTS you to jump at their every whim. The customer can behave VERY badly and you must keep smiling as you carry their paint to their vehicles. THEY don't care that you have a degree!! Then the customer who called in an order while you've been busting your backside will arrive and get ticked off because they called ahead and their paint isn't ready! They don't care why. They only care that it hasn't been done. And then there are the homeowners who ALWAYS come into the store every single night at 6:59 pm when the store closes at 7 pm!! These are the very same people who will come in at 7:59 pm when the store stays open until 8 pm....and it often does when there is a sale! You have to smile and make them feel welcome just so your boss can reprimand you if it caused you to work overtime or fail to get some other task done! This is just the tip of the iceberg. I haven't even gotten to the additional responsibilities of the asst. manager! Store managers have it worse! They usually work at least 60 hours a week, although the minimum required is 48 hours. Managers never get paid overtime! NEVER! If you have to work 80-90 hours, so be it! Sherwin Williams talks the talk of a balanced life! That isn't possible at the store level! Your hours are spread over 7 days a week. 6:45 am-7:15 pm M-F, 7:45 am - 6:15 pm Sat, and 9:45 am - 6:15 pm on Sunday. There are only three days a year that the store closes for a holiday. These days are Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. If you are a part-timer you will work EVERY Saturday! If you cannot manage to get a whole weekend or at least two days in a row off, you will always be exhausted! The days you work, you will be too tired to do anything after work! Don't think that your body will not hurt. The upside is that you will get stronger! Starting pay for those below the management level is $9 - $11 an hour. Usually, it is the lesser, unless you have previously been a SW employee or have a great deal of experience in the industry. – less
Hoote – February 16, 2013
They must train them to speak like this....Spoken like a true share-holder...there is a reason why SW stock is so high and they short staff every store!