Extremely disappointed in the culture of disrespect and sexual harassment, and paycheck irregularities. - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Mar 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sounds fun, until you get yelled and screamed at by middle management daily.

Cons

Irregularities in paycheck accuracy. Many times had to contact dept. manager to correct errors in paycheck; almost every time! Managers are commonly very cavalier, neglectful, and inappropriate with handling sensitive customer information (personal and billing info !). Sexual harassment is also apparently rampant; I know of 2 employees that resigned due to sexual harassment.

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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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