Gibson Guitar – “Not a good place to hide”

SLANTED? OMG, are you kidding me? A 5.0 review to try to jack up Henry's rating, now THAT is slanted. Either you are new and extremely naive, or you're Henry trying to jack up your pitiful rating created by truthful postings about the miserable leadership at Gibson, or you're simply stupid, or a shill, or all of the above or some other combination.

What you are NOT is correct. I've never read a more consistent description of this man by multiple experienced people who've known and worked for him on any other company rating on this site. NOBODY at Gibson controls their own destiny within that company.

If you are given a task and a major project than denied the simplest financial or other approvals or resources to accomplish the task after providing a detailed and APPROVED plan and budget for the task, and are then called on the carpet and humiliated in front of your workers and staff for your failures, how are you in control of your destiny? You are delusional. As delusional as Henry.

Looks at the massive amount of talent that comes and goes quickly from that company and tell me this review you're posting isn't horse-hockey of the filthiest degree! Gibson hires plenty of good people on the first try, and then walks them directly into The Looking Glass under the direction of Henry "Mad Hatter" Juskiewicz.

This must be a joke or another attempt by Hank to boost his rating so that it doesn't slip into single digits... The only "slanted" comments on this site are those that rate Henry more than a 1.0. Stumbling onto a downtrodden iconic brand a couple of decades ago is one thing; as the saying goes, "even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then". The more recent performance (in this century) is indicative of the "quality" of Hank's "leadership".

The comments from this site along with personal advice made me cancel an interview with them. Two solid pages of truth telling about the corporate culture along with the description of Henry J was enough to put me off for good. I called and canceled the interview and I'm unemployed. I still feel it was a good decision. Henry sounds like a lunatic.

LIAR, LIAR, LIAR!!!!!!!! Don't believe a word of this review. You don't control anything particularly your own destiny at Gibson, and you get punished for doing good work. The CEO ignores all requests and squashes any attempt to get things done then criticizes or fires you. What a joke. The company could be 10 times or more its current size, but the CEO is holding it back and hurting the business. Yes he took over a failing company, but grew it on the backs of other good people not him, and now he is destroying it. He also bought Baldwin, Wurlitzer, Tobias, Slingerland and others and has effectively run all of those into the ground. Gibson is not far behind if he remains in control. There is no slant in the bad reviews here, only the truth. for every one excellent person still at the company he has fired 10 or they have quit.

Jim, you made the right decision.

Either HJ or Roger Mitchell wrote this...as ANYONE knows that has worked there, there is not a shred of truth to this review! I, myself had 5 bosses in 4 years there...and they were at the executive level in the same position.

Neither they, nor myself had any control on our destiny...other than choosing to leave for sanity's sake and personal pride.

Looks like HJ wrote a memo to himself. Nice one.

You folks are all wrong. Henry is too smart to write this and give himself a 5.0 - he would have gone for a 4.0 or something more believable. This was written by my husband, a hardworking employee of Gibson for over 10 years - not a new guy, not a naive guy, not Henry, and certainly not a liar or lunatic. I am sorry some of you had such a bad experience but Gibson and Henry have earned our respect and loyalty.

Then your husband is another suck-up manager fresh off a tongue-lashing by HJ, or he was brand new then, and probably fired now. Those of us (10 + years myself, somehow) who've been around long enough know what to look for. Gimme' a break.

HJ and DB did indeed save and turnaround the company in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately the performance of the company has been stalled for around 10 years. Turnaround artists do not necessarily make good leaders for longterm stewardhip, realignment, sustainment or accelerated growth. HJ should go save some troubled company somewhere else, he is good at it. He should stop ruining Gibson and and let a different kind of expert take it to the next level(s).