Not The Dream Job Every Guitarist Expects...
Pros
-Like minded employees that love music and guitars with a passion. -Perfect attendance raffle every month for a chance to win a SE guitar -After 2 years(7, 15, etc.) of employment you get to order/help build a custom USA core guitar(or S2). You get to pick out the model, wood, and color of guitar. You just pay the cost of materials. -Monthly raffle for gas card or company swag out of prize closet.
Cons
-Early start time(7am sharp). Paul does know we are musicians right? -Outdated 80 point discipline system. Get 80 points and you are fired. For example 16 points for calling in sick or needing a personal day after 7am. 8 points if you call in before 7am. So it is very easy to add up points. -Employees are treated like robots. No sick leave. They are not suppose to get sick or be in pain. Although the work load I saw and personally experienced, working in pain was not out of the ordinary. -Employees used as scapegoats for mistakes they did not make to cover for incompetent managers. -Not much upward mobility, just lateral moves. Cross trained employees help the company, not the employee. -Weird favoritism. Incompetent employees make mistakes time after time and are never fired. Other employees have to put out the fire and fix the problems created by that employee. Some employees are allowed to goof off and take multiple smoke breaks a day. Others(ones who have their nose to the grindstone the whole day) are scolded for talking to another employee for a couple minutes. -Raises are very small and do not match the effort put out by the employee. -The employee manual will tell you the minimum amount of pieces you must produce each day to be an acceptable employee. But in my experience you did double or more of the minimum because the company always being in backorder status. No compensation for the additional pieces we were constantly producing. -Extremely high employee turnover rate means you have to constantly help train new employees while still trying to do your regular work.