Sherwin-Williams Reviews

Pros

Extensive Training gives you proper knowledge to sell.

Cons

Unattainable goals and expectations can be set

Advice to Senior Management

Staff your stores please, these employees are getting massacred out here

Pros

Decent pay.
Benefits package.
Advancement Opportunites - over 3000 locations
Fun and fast paced.

Cons

Long weekend hours.
Long work weeks. Usually exceed 50 hours.
Plenty of heavy lifting.

Advice to Senior Management

Very pleasant experiences with upper management.

Pros

Good training program, secure job, solid reputation, excellent management communication, good opportunities for growth,

Cons

I enjoy the part time work.

Advice to Senior Management

Please increase warehouse salary to be competitive with other industries.

Pros

great work/life balance
competent senior management/executive staff
excellent benefits
top-notch CEO

Cons

more vacation time would be nice, but it's difficult to complain when you work for such an extraordinary company and are handsomely compensated in other ways.

Advice to Senior Management

This is a company with a very high level of integrity and great respect for it's employees. I'm proud to list them as a former employer on my resume.

Pros

I started with SW before college, worked through it, and then became an assistant when I graduated. The company provides excellent benefits once full time status is reached and good pay.

Cons

At least in my district we were very understaffed. Stores are not given enough hours, so busy shifts only have one or two people at the most.

Advice to Senior Management

Our company's best asset is our people...short staffing stores to cut costs is not the way to compete against Home Depot and Lowe's.

Pros

many opportunities
great benefits
stock is doing very well

Cons

retail hours
pay for management seems low for management position
hiring practices

Pros

good pay good benfits good company

Cons

too much on polictical correctness

Advice to Senior Management

guard your words guard your actions

Pros

If you average 20 or 25 hours a week you get some paid vacation, paid holidays and time and a half on holidays if you work, which more than likely will be the case.

You are always busy, so it makes the time go by fast.(except in the dead of winter in the midwest it becomes pain-stakingly boring,)

I actually enjoy helping people choose colors for their homes, though to a certain extent. After an hour and a half of discussing whether they should paint their kids room "fun yellow" or "petunia pink", I have had enough.

I have a baby and am nursing and manager is really nice to allow me to only work short shifts so I am not away from him for long periods of time.

Cons

If you work part time you are basically stuck working the crappy hours, nights and weekends of course.

Some customers, as it is in all retail, can be very rude, strange, and downright annoying.

Pay is decent, though I have been working there almost 5 years and I have a 4 yr degree in Interior Design, so in acutality I feel like I should be making more. However, the likelyhood of me finding a better job in this economy is dim, so I take what I can get.

Part-timers work just as hard, if not harder than management and we see no bonus whatsoever.

Having to put away the massive load of paint that comes in weekly is ton of work. Your back will get sore and you will be exhasted at the end of the day. (Though you will get buff)

Despite what many people may think, there is a TON of information you need to learn regarding paint. You need to know the answers too because you will constantly be asked random questions by customers. This is why I despise the "Ask Sherwin Williams" slogan.

You need to be able to multi-task well and work fast. And when it gets super busy and you are working by yourself on a sunday which is always that case at our store, it can get really overwelming and stressful. Especially when there is a line of 8 people starting at you waiting for your help.

Advice to Senior Management

Give bonuses to part time employees. We deserve it just as much.

Bring back a shorter work day on sundays.(9-4) No one in their right mind comes in to buy paint at 5 pm on a sunday evening.

Management should work some weekends too.

Seriously stop having these megasales and extending our hours.

Treat your part-time employees better and appreciate all they do to help you get YOUR bonus.

Pros

think on your feet. they give you room to work. allowing you to make the changes you want

Cons

they took a long time to make a poor choice (in my opinion) HR.

Advice to Senior Management

choose replacements faster

Pros

People were friendly and overall enjoyed the organization

Cons

Less than optimal coaching and development of employees

Advice to Senior Management

Be more proactive