Terrible Company To Work For - Store Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Sep 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work with musical instruments, occasionally famous musicians will stop in. Employee discount is great.

Cons

Technology is decades behind, company makes it hard for associates to hit sales per hour, constant restructure from the top down. No stability in job position, lack of communication on all levels. Hourly micromanaging, plan to be on conference calls during peak selling times then get held accountable for poor customer service scores. Tech department closed on weekends so if your system goes down you are left to figure out on your own. Lots of steps for a simple transaction even more for a customer return and heaven help you if it’s from a sister company like musicians friend. Lessons program is separate from the store making it difficult to help instructors and students. Service now app is a joke leaving the store to figure out loop holes on how to help customers. Unorganized policy and procedures you need to know the exact keyword to find help on their “backstage” app.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
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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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