Worse Every Year - Sales & Training Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Helping the sales team develop personally and professionally was the most rewarding part of the job. The customers here are a quirky bunch that definitely make every day fun and interesting. The discount's great too, but you'll never make enough to get much out of it.

Cons

Despite my performance, I made less money with each 'advancement' and some of the people I trained and supervised made more than I did. Sexism is rampant in senior management - females have plenty of opportunity here if their morals are flexible enough. The company's recent 'changes' are a bunch of double-speak used to fight unions popping up in their stores. Employees are still regarded as expendable commodities because there's no shortage of desperate musicians. Senior management takes zero responsibility for their failures and were the most out-of-touch lot I've ever worked with. The company is widely referred to as the 'Walmart of music', but I can say from experience Walmart treats their employees with more respect.

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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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