Sherwin-Williams Reviews

Pros

The Company stands behind there employee's. There are there and the pay is half way decent. They promote from within and if you are a go getter then you will do great.

Cons

Managers are required to work 48 hours a week. The company is very motivated and there is quite a lot of pressure on the management team.

Pros

Very good benefits. Solid company. You won't ever lose your job unless you're an idiot. Management is good to work with. They seem to care about their employees.

Cons

Pay isn't great, it's just average. Open 7 days a week. Takes a long to time get to store manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Try harder to pick those that are more competent then others. Let there be some judgement made by the store manager instead of just telling them what to do.

Pros

Most employees are good people who want to put a good product out to the customers. The facility hits many of their goals and can tackle a project with the best of them. The union can sometimes cause too much of an uproar about non-issues. Overall, they do seem to have good, honest, hard working employees in spite of themselves.

Good pay for the work that is performed.

Retirement benefits are excellent.

Healthcare benefits are average.

Cons

Corporate and regional managers can implement relatively unreasonable initiatives with little/no site feedback or input.

Many things are controlled from Cleveland, not allowing creative freedom for running the operation.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement standards and guidelines, but keep the mandating of certain activities and procedures to a minimum. Allow the good workers you hire to run your facilities to use their brains and make things happen for themselves. If everything is mandated, all you have are drones spouting off mandates from Cleveland.

Pros

-Good training, and regular training
-Good Benefits plan. (Very affordable)

Cons

-Work environment leaves something to be desired.
-Upper managment was very critical of employees.
-No loyalty to their employees.
-Asked more of their employees than what the pay was worth.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more appreciative of the hard work your employees do for you. They are working hard, and you don't help them much at all. The pricing is out of hand, and you are trying to make your guys compete on and unfair playing field. Stop asking everyone to do more with less. That was the motto when I was there. That is they way it was always done, not the way it should be done.

Pros

Benefit package is very good. Stable company. Hard to get fired. Has a good name and reputation. Insurance seems to be as good as anyones.

Cons

Company seems to be heading toward a leaner and tougher attitude to compete. Longer hours, less employees makes it tough.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer to spend time with employees for a few days to better understand the short staff to maintain good customer service.

Pros

Quick benefits, overal freindly envoronment, easy to transfer locations if need be. Salary good start and compariable to other jobs.

Cons

Went in for one job got shifted to another to fill a gap in workers, new position ok. Will See how it goes.

Advice to Senior Management

Need more orientation time, testing a valuable asset that is used much appreciated. It is hard to tell who is in charge of our area above store manager.

Pros

Competative salary, great benefits, good work environment.

Cons

Hard work, you must work from the ground up and work inside a retail store is the only place to start; this work is demanding but rewarding for those who are willing to roll-up their sleeves.

Advice to Senior Management

Management for the most part is good.

Pros

good benefits, good pay, somewhat flexible with schedules

Cons

boys club atmosphere, don't promote from within, catty inter-office politics, my district office is not run according to the ideals and values touted on the intranet sites, no training, horrible communication from management

Advice to Senior Management

To the people in the corporate offices, take a closer look at how your district offices and stores are being managed. They way these locations are managed pretty much makes a mockery of what you refer to as your "Culture of Excellence".

Pros

The pay is good I don't have a college degree . Can take time off whenever I want to. Something different everyday. Great insurance. Pretty hard to get fired. Great bonus plan(If you can make it)

Cons

Advancement is very hard unless you are a chosen one. They don't have clearly
 defined ways to get promoted. Some people get promoted to dm i just 6 years while others it takes 20. Seem to be on a diveresty kick. Which is fine but they bend the rules for some. They know who is going to get a certain openings before it opens. Inteviews are a joke. They don't even interview half of them . I was told one time when I needed an assistant you are getting this person. Call everyone and tell them its been filled. They treat you like a number if you don't hit budget you get a 4 on your appraisal. Doesn't matter what else you do. It's what are your sales and profit. They do all these sales qualifing but never take anyone off the list. Every 2 years you get a new boss and they change everything. And price increases wow we had 3 last year and will have 3 this year. They try to tell us people will buy from us because we are experts. Really? All they care about are share holders. They need to get ideas from the field on sales and what to sale. Not from some yahoo in Cleveland.
We now sell hammers,drillls and SHAMWOW! lol. There are higher up's who expect you to do things they didn't like hit sales budget 2 years in a row.

Hope you like working holidays. Only closed on Thanksgiving,Easter,Christmas and New Years day
oh and keep your store spotless. And get NO paint on your clothes.

Advice to Senior Management

Ever heard of the show under cover boss. You could learn somethings if you worked in a store. Try to sell 65.00 paint to a home owner. Work on Christmas eve like we do. years ago we were closed on most holidays. Now we are open on 4th of July. I really think you are clueless to real workings of your company. That's why you took down the company blog. You found out there were unhappy employees.

Pros

The company provides good employment stability, competitive benefits, sales development, and training.
It shows you the importance of: hard work, reliability, and following things through.

Cons

Unrealistic expectations
Understaffed
Minimal work/life balance
Scolded for OT, yet want smooth operating store
Contractors are difficult to deal with at time because sales rep and upper management spoil to the extent where they think they can receive a 250 gallon order in an hour
Condescending and patronizing district management at times

Advice to Senior Management

I hope they read all these reviews, they have no idea how morale has been affected with all the sudden changes during the second half of 2011. It's will create a problem eventually, there are other jobs out there regardless of what the job market looks like.