Working at Guitar Center in Nashua, NH: 2 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Nashua, NH Area

"I have wanted to work for guitar center since I was 13 years old, being 21 now I felt that I finally met the qualifications to work there. I ended up being right, I got the job. I absolutely loved the job in the beginning, then I started realizing the BS that they do such as, not enough pay for the amount of time you take to work with a customer (20-45 minutes) 1% commission is apparently enough to them. Making you do a TON of work that is mostly work that is thrown at you so you have something to do. I can't tell you the amount of times my department was perfect and my manager would just walk in and move something and then tell me to fix the whole wall. He moved something slightly. They find ways to make you do brainless tasks because they can't stand when you stand there or go play a new piece of gear that comes in, that's another thing I was not allowed under any circumstance to play... at all, I thought this was a MUSIC store where we are all musicians who spent years honing the skills we had to play the way we did. We got new gear from NAMM and we weren't allowed to try it out and see how it played or worked, which is vital in sales to help customers play to their full potential. Knowledge on the product didn't seem to matter to GC, they were solely focused on doing brainless activities to "keep us busy". As for the Ops department I felt horrible for them because they had to do all this crap to make sure the sales floor ran smoothly and they got crap pay to do it. They got mad at me for doing training module which you know helps me do my job, God forbid, we do anything to improve our way of doing the job that we were paid and hired to do. Because of the environment and commission structure, no one ever worked as a team, it was literally every man or woman for themselves, worst of all my manager was always making fun of me or insulting me. I must say Guitarcenter really let me down and I have no interest in buying my gear from them. Thanks, Guitarcenter."

What do you like about working at Guitar Center?

"Gig leave, if your band goes on tour your job is there when you get back from tour."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"DO NOT GO TO INTERVIEW! unless you want to work minimum wage with pay cuts. IDK how GC gets away with it but they do."

What don't you like about working at Guitar Center?

"The pay is barely enough to make it by, and even when promised a raise the company refuses to actually give them to employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try and see things from the employees' side. GC Management spends to much time ignoring employees concerns and request for change."