Great atmosphere locally, terrible corporate culture from above. - Lessons Lead Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Jun 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people I work with are amazing. Most customers are cool. My GM is the best boss I could ask for.

Cons

The corporate culture from outside our store is terrible and it sucks a lot of enjoyment knowing that they don't seem to care about anything but profit. No one makes enough here, we are all struggling, and those of us who aren't struggling are fine because of a second job or gig. The teachers make less than half of what guitar center chargers and there seems to be no benefit in taking that deal. The people above promise heaps but almost never deliver. I've found I've had to go through corporate just to do things I use to be able to do. It makes for a worse customer experience. We are also constantly understaffed with some how being surplus in hours.

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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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