Bittersweet Job - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Feb 26, 2019
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Pros

The retail activities of the job are rather easy. The company culture is definitely rather laid back and allows you to be really be yourself as long as you are respectful and helpful with the customers. It is a great place to work if you need a flexible job that will understand when you have gigs or other things to do. The discounts on gear is definitely the best perk of this job.

Cons

The downside is that it customers expect you to know EVERYTHING about everything, and pretentious know it all customers are a daily occurrence. You will learn to use google for people. Locations like Atlanta are breeding grounds for upper management so it is constantly a revolving door of store managers and that can be difficult to adjust to. The hourly wage is low, and commission structure sucks. You have to work really hard or have a large personal network of customers for decent pay here.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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