Guitar Center reviews

Terrible pay, WAYYY over worked, countless metrics and quotas that are required to be hit on a monthly basis, micro managed, low accountability.

Slowly all but two holidays have disappeared. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the only paid holidays left. The sales staff gets no sick days. The flavor of the day, aka company focus, changes frequently. You absolutely must be adaptable to these changes, and not take them personally, if you are to have a chance at a GC career. Phone calls to customers who have shopped before and provided a phone number are a big part of your shift. You must also merchandise your department and put gear away, print your own price tags, take endless tests on line using a program that frequently doesn't recognize you. Crazy matrixes are how employee performance is guaged. So much focus is placed on selling additional warranties that have continued to decrease in benefit to the customer- and you will have your commisson percentage decreased if you don't make your quota. Stores run on a skeleton crew. And frequently there are not enough managers , especially for an "approval', which just means you need a manager to complete the sale for you so you can move on to the next customer.