We all know they’re going downhill and fast - Lessons Lead Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Jul 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee discount, most coworkers are amazing people

Cons

How do we even begin? This place has been slowly chipping away at labor and commission and putting unbearable pressure on staff to produce more and more and more. It’s never enough! Meetings consisted of corporate trigger words and regurgitated nonsense on a weekly basis, essentially monkeys ooing and aaahing “ooo loOK biG nUmBur, vErY NiCE (clap clap)”. We need 3 completely different systems to do one simple task and it’s embarrassing to have billionaire company with such antiquated systems, the new systems suck too don’t worry! Stupid little updates that no one asked for yet the ONE function we did ask for over and over again for years is unattainable for some reason apparently. Ask yourselves why only 3/15 stores have your arbitrary minimum number, it’s because it’s impossible to actually do business with you! You rely on the perfect scenario that only exists in your head to pan out with real lives, it’s insane! I also had the laziest store manager in existence. Would sit in their office all day and look at gear and cars they wanted, always taking personal calls. Would complain that no one had their work ethic but they’d do everything to get out of doing anything. Severely misunderstands what a store manager actually means; you’re gonna have to burn sometimes, you’re gonna have to pick up calls and make sales too. Especially when there’s 1 person on the floor.

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Cons

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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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