Pros
- discount is at cost prices. ( however if you are a real grownup you will never be able to make enough money to actually by anything)
Cons
The pay structure is horrible. Example: the local REI sporting goods store starting pay is $11.25/hr multiply that by 40hrs per week = $1800/month Guitar center will not give a new employee 40hrs/week that's reserved for assistant managers. They say it's because I won't hit commission goals with 40 hrs. Ok so guitar center in my area is $9/hr with commission. Commission structure in its simplest for is: your gross profit has to equal or exceed you paycheck in order to get commission. At $8,000 of profit you get $200 bonus same at $10k and 12k. So with average of 28hrs/week as a full time worker, with the 3 tiers of Comission bonuses (which is nearly impossible to obtain) my monthly paycheck would be $1,608. What I would need to do to actually hit $12,000 in profit per month: - steal fellow coworkers customers - put myself on sales tickets that I had no part of - hover by the front door and talk to customers first. - presend I'm talking to employees in other departments when my department is slow so I can try and get their customers. - whine, complain and fight my way into others sales claiming I should be on a sales ticket and make management change the ticket to give me a percentage. - issue a gift card payment to a customer I know a fellow employee was working with , then use that gift card to purchase their items so the records don't show that original employee should get any credit for sale because it was a gift card purchase associated to the purchase rather than physical items. I am personally not the above type of person so at most on a good month I can reach tier one of comission (especially on my weekly hours) which would be $1,208 per month. I would say a 40hr/week job at REI beats guitar center.