Meh - Lessons Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
17 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits if you are full time. Guaranteed hours.

Cons

Job duties are made purposefully vague so management can load you up with whatever work they want at any time. Commission is based on sales-per-hour, but most of the time, management will make sales people put away boxes of merchandise for hours or clean instead of selling. They also maintain shady business practices lately when it comes to the Covid 19 pandemic. They force people to quarantine if they are exposed to covid, which is fine, but then if they really need someone to cover a shift, they will force potentially still infected people to cut their quarantine short and come into work at risk of being fired if they don't.

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Pros

Got to work with so many people

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Employee discounts are the biggest reason why people work here, as the discount is really good.

Cons

Your experience working at Guitar Center will largely depend on which store you work at. Some stores have a good management team and employees and are fun to work at. But a lot of stores do not have a qualified management team and they have a staff that is not fun to work with. My location needed a new store manager and instead of promoting the ops manager who knew the store better than anyone else and was with the company for 15+ years working at multiple locations, corporate instead promoted a customer service lead who had been with the company less than 2 years and didn't have management experience. These are the people that corporate decides so often to run their stores.

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