Garbage and just got worse! - Retail Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
31 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Discounts and rubbing elbows with fellow musicians.

Cons

As of today 1/13/23, the commission structure that was already bad got worse. To make the same we were making a week ago, we would essentially have to sell 3X more products and protection plans to even come close to what we were making.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Employee discounts are the biggest reason why people work here, as the discount is really good.

Cons

Your experience working at Guitar Center will largely depend on which store you work at. Some stores have a good management team and employees and are fun to work at. But a lot of stores do not have a qualified management team and they have a staff that is not fun to work with. My location needed a new store manager and instead of promoting the ops manager who knew the store better than anyone else and was with the company for 15+ years working at multiple locations, corporate instead promoted a customer service lead who had been with the company less than 2 years and didn't have management experience. These are the people that corporate decides so often to run their stores.

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