Not a place for a skilled guitar tech to grow. - Guitar Technician Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Feb 9, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly co-workers, for the most part. Pay was actually pretty decent.

Cons

Little room to grow with your skills. While the hourly was considerably higher than a sales associate, the quota made for not enough time spent on a guitar to have it be as good as it should for what the customer pays unless you want to burn out. I retained my dignity by retaining my high standards of quality, making the quota and burning myself out quickly, then resigning. The manager treats you like you're expendable, even if you are doing a fantastic job. I make more money doing it on my own being able to spend three times as long to do the job perfect and better while charging the same price. 40 hours a week pay for 50 hours of work if you include the time you need to be clocked out for cleaning up your work area at night and setting it up in the morning. Negative reinforcement, not good for someone prone to anxiety. Some customers are very arrogant and demanding when they really don't know what they want.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Obsolete softwares Scheduling system software that is thenmost imperative tool as of it will be the backbone of a lesson lead for your team of instructors success it's also somewhat obsolete amd constantly crashing both IT and Upper management are aware. IT is very diligent and pleasant to work with but Upper management expects their lessons lead to work and deliver at 100% capacity while they continue to have an operating system that only works at 75% capacity, just beware of that and if you're willing to work under those conditions. With that put there go at your own discretion. Nobody gets Christmas/winter holiday vacation time off, also go at your own discretion on that one especially if you have kids and family looking for work-life-balance.

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