kidding me - Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
26 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

better than being unemployed, barely!!

Cons

Just writing a response to reading reviews. "Guitar Center" responses are such a joke! Someone in HR who has never even been in a store, having NO clue the God awful vibe, lies to employees, and overall abuse that abounds in every GC. You work there, you ARE a number. If you are a customer, beware that the salesman doesn't sell you, or convince you to buy something you don't need, just to make a sale. A practice that is encouraged by MANY in management, certainly not discouraged. It is absolutely the worst company I have ever worked for, and I spent 20 years in Big Box retail. Stay away, customers and job seekers alike. Now, watch someone in corporate respond to this with some ridiculous corporate rhetoric! Don't buy it!! P.S.- I worked in multiple locations. The Good Ole Boy attitude was the worst in CA, so I'm stating that as the city.

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Cons

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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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