PTSD - Managment Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
30 Sept 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Discounts, that’s about it really. Some nice co-workers

Cons

To be honest I experienced pretty bad micro acts of racism. I was called Jose and other Mexican names. The lack of training and connection to your manger lead me to become extremely unprepared for the role and in addition to the insane work load to which they said “we don’t expect you to be able to complete everything” was insane. My role alone should’ve been staffed my three people. And also the pay was embarrassing and disrespectful for the amount of work they placed on me. I started having severe panic and anxiety attacks from this place. And the on the annual survey, the whole department came back by saying they felt extremely underpaid. And when they went over it, they basically just said “it is what it is”. I’m sure experiences vary from department to department, but I’ve managed to get to know a lot of different people from different departments and I was not alone which my thoughts of racial discrimination and back work environment. There are some nice folks but there are alot of rude and quite frankly disrespectful employees that don’t even acknowledge your existence. I’m currently going to therapy to help deal with the gas lighting I experienced from this job, I really thought I was the problem, but after talking it over with several other folks and employees, I realized this job was making feel like I wasn’t good or able enough when in reality it was the job not me.

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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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