Save us! - Store Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people in the stores, customers and the subject matter.

Cons

Terrible leadership! Terrible people in all the positions outside of the store level! Rampant mismanagement! The people in charge have no clue what they are doing! Stop trying to gaslight us! The goals are too high meaning your entire store leadership team took a pay cut of 20% to 40% when you made bonuses unattainable. You cut labor making everyone’s job harder. You keep trying to tell us to have good attitudes while you are screwing us over us just unethical and ridiculous. All the while Regional Managers are buying vacation homes in Mexico. We aren’t lacking in resources we are just managing them improperly. You could Eliminate one RVP and likely solve the company’s labor problems for the year.

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 21, 2026
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Pros

- Plenty of capable individual contributors doing real work. - The brand and the business itself are legitimate — the problems are organizational.

Cons

- Senior leadership is politically driven rather than outcome-driven. Strategic initiatives stall out, and leaders spend more energy assigning or shifting blame than actually diagnosing and fixing problems. - Some parts of the org operate on deference to the top. Honest assessments get softened into whatever narrative leadership wants to hear, which makes real cross-functional work difficult. - Senior leaders do not consistently advocate for their own teams. When things get political, self-preservation takes precedence over backing the people underneath, and capable managers end up exposed.

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