Commissions at the cost of health - Salesman GNC Employee Review

1.0
11 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting in learning the concepts and growth of the supplement industry. And the commission did help on top of the base pay.

Cons

Where to start.... Many employees are far uneducated and sometimes are individuals who shouldn't be giving health advice in the first place. The constant micromanagement of the up line is absolutely insane and would get in constant trouble for not promoting "GNC" brand and multi vitamin packs (which have far weaker ingredient list compared to other vitamin packs) and the fact that the commissions aren't on all supplements makes it unprompted to actually help with people's genuine health where salesman will focus on commission and not the genuine health of the customers. The commission's have also been slowly dropping over the years. And my last gear grinder is that they treat staff as a number. They are completely unwilling to look out for their employees in the slightest and expect us to promote GNC products without ever allowing us to sample and expect us to promote a mediocre product with no way to taste test their products or anything to reference off of unless we wasted our own money.

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5.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great perks. You will learn a lot about supplements and how go take care of your body and mind

Cons

Room to growth is low & upper management sometimes don't know what they doing.

4.0
17 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, flexible hours, and being able to get school work done while working is amazing. Because I did super good they bumped me to $15 an hour, so plus commissions I make over $20 an hour sometimes. You just have to do your job right and you make decent money.

Cons

My starting pay was $9.5 an hour which is insane. The expectation to meet quotas is high.

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