Good temporary job, that's about it. - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Jan 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Fun being around music and instruments all day. Cool people to work with. Discounted gear. Flexible schedule for gigging musicians.

Cons

Upper management just pawned off the responsibilities on a middle manager with no experience. Low pay and small commissions. No huddle up sales meetings. You make ZERO commission in your first 90 days. High pressure from above to achieve sales goals and to sell in house warranties on ALL gear. No comradery between most employees. Tenured employees would stab you in the back to steal a sale and commission and management wouldn't do anything.

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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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