Better Than Being Unemployed - Operations Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Mar 1, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work with fellow musicians/enthusiasts, random celebrities/celebrities pop in, vacation is easy to get when wanted, awesome discounts on ALOT of music gear, and even home audio equipment from select vendors.... it's a job and that's better than unemployment. lol

Cons

Commission/hourly for Sales seems to be pretty good for the most part, Operations gets treated like slackers, Sales guys are the true slackers, complaining when they cant find stuff, refuse to lift more then 15 pounds, schedule is constantly being changed, workers are more childish than professional, cracking tasteless jokes in front and away from customers.

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Pros

Very flexible with hours working.

Cons

Difficult to stray away from Hal Leonard curriculum sometimes, but may be different now.

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Sweet deals and discounts Coworkers are very pleasant to work with Good as extra income Good for aspiring musicians to network with experts of the industry

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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