I look forward to going to work - Sam Ash Guitar Sales Sam Ash Employee Review

3.0
Nov 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Working with great people, a super understanding boss who helps me grow as a salesman, learning more and more about gear every day. The pay isn't great but this is the first job I've had that I looked forward to going to (I've been working since i was 17, I'm 30 now with a college degree i have no intention of using). This is the first time I've been at a job where I've actually wanted to stay, after filling my résumé with office jobs and other random opportunities. I was promoted after 3 months, I'm aiming to keep moving up.

Cons

THE LOUSY PAY. I'm scraping by. If i didn't love it so much, i would've left long ago. Maybe one day it'll wear me down enough that I'll leave. Seriously, i would hate to be at a job i love and feel like I'm not earning anything at all, like I'm grossly wasting my time :/ i dont want to go back to a more conventional, soul-sucking job!

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Mar 23, 2026
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Pros

Good team to work with, and store management were reasonable once the right people got put into place. Got to work with people that liked the gear.

Cons

Impossible metrics everywhere. Corporate would set targets they knew we could not hit, instead of looking at why things were working. This burned out way too many people there way too consistently. What systems were in place (Salesforce, etc.) were put in place poorly, with little thought put to how they should actually be use (again, Salesforce was used to make cold-calls to people like it was the 80s, and upper management hammered on call metrics that made no sense. We'd get yelled at by customers for this, who then wouldn't come back, and then yelled at by corporate for not making enough calls and phone sales, when nobody else in the business operates this way). Also, pay was low, commission structure was outright insulting in how badly it was set against us (you had to break base, which again, nobody else in the business did) and you only seemed to get promoted when a position opens up above you from someone retiring or quitting for better prospects elsewhere, and even then that wasn't a guarantee (problem characters were often promoted upstairs).

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