Gibson, Worst Place to Work??

[kalipigeon]

It also only comes in bowling ball finishes, and has knobs that are jeweltone finished in colors that don't match the finish colors (i.e. every color but the finish color).

And a few more abominations:

[noisepunk]

Take back the zoot suit SG's; those looked bad ass.

[windmill]

Despite the bagging everyone gives Gibson, the people designing those limited run models must have been having fun.

Much more inventive and ridiculous than what Fender has put out

[SirTrevor96]

WTF are those V's and Explorer's w. the holes in them? Was this to reduce weight?

[emanon313]

I doubt Gibson could be any worse than working @ GC!

[SirTrevor96]

I doubt Gibson could be any worse than working @ GC!

What are your experiences working there??

[austang]

Wow - those Firebirds and others really are ugly guitars!! (IMHO) How did a 13 year old's school project get accepted by the design team???

[Lupercal]

Wow - those Firebirds and others really are ugly guitars!! (IMHO) How did a 13 year old's school project get accepted by the design team???

Complete lack of anything? Say the right things in a boardroom and anything sounds good on paper...unfortunately this gets put into the finished model which they still think is good.

[emanon313]

I doubt Gibson could be any worse than working @ GC!

What are your experiences working there??

Forget whatever I posted before, this will piss off folks here more than anything: When I worked @ GC a guy walked in w/a CAR Coronado in EX cond, said he was looking to trade it for something new. The sales manager who handled him told him to find something he liked & they would talk about it. The guy grabbed a Squier Bullet & without blinking they did an EVEN TRADE!!! Not even sure if the poor guy got a case out of the deal. BTW, he was not a kid--prolly in his 50's at least. GC sold the Coronado to a local dealer a few hours later, likely for whatever the Blue Book was on it in '97, minus a dollar or two. How would you like to witness something like that & have to keep your mouth shut?
Thank god I got fired--a few weeks later I got a real job & I've been there ever since.

[pjennings]

I doubt Gibson could be any worse than working @ GC!

What are your experiences working there??

Forget whatever I posted before, this will piss off folks here more than anything: When I worked @ GC a guy walked in w/a CAR Coronado in EX cond, said he was looking to trade it for something new. The sales manager who handled him told him to find something he liked & they would talk about it. The guy grabbed a Squier Bullet & without blinking they did an EVEN TRADE!!! Not even sure if the poor guy got a case out of the deal. BTW, he was not a kid--prolly in his 50's at least. GC sold the Coronado to a local dealer a few hours later, likely for whatever the Blue Book was on it in '97, minus a dollar or two. How would you like to witness something like that & have to keep your mouth shut?
Thank god I got fired--a few weeks later I got a real job & I've been there ever since.

That's heart breaking to read! I remember bringing in my lefty 1975 Rickenbacker 4001 bass (with an original case) to CG to try out amps back in the late-90's. I was a naive looking teenager back then, but I knew exactly what that bass was worth. One of the sales guys enthusiastically offered me a whole $200 for it. Needless to say, I knew exactly what he was doing and walked away.

[emanon313]

Forget whatever I posted before, this will piss off folks here more than anything: When I worked @ GC a guy walked in w/a CAR Coronado in EX cond, said he was looking to trade it for something new. The sales manager who handled him told him to find something he liked & they would talk about it. The guy grabbed a Squier Bullet & without blinking they did an EVEN TRADE!!! Not even sure if the poor guy got a case out of the deal. BTW, he was not a kid--prolly in his 50's at least. GC sold the Coronado to a local dealer a few hours later, likely for whatever the Blue Book was on it in '97, minus a dollar or two. How would you like to witness something like that & have to keep your mouth shut?
Thank god I got fired--a few weeks later I got a real job & I've been there ever since.

That's heart breaking to read! I remember bringing in my lefty 1975 Rickenbacker 4001 bass (with an original case) to CG to try out amps back in the late-90's. I was a naive looking teenager back then, but I knew exactly what that bass was worth. One of the sales guys enthusiastically offered me a whole $200 for it. Needless to say, I knew exactly what he was doing and walked away.

I have long thought it would be funny to walk into a GC w/a nice vintage axe & play dumb, to see if they are sleazy enough to do a ridiculous trade (like vintage Fender for new Squier). Once they start writing up the deal, flatly back out & see what they do when I give 'em "blue balls". Deseperate salesholes are hilarious when they're not so annoying.

BTW, back in my GC days, though we were encouraged to be shysters whenever possible (umm, I mean good capitolists...buisness is buisness, folks) our store tended to err on the generous side when it came to vintage stuff, at least when the owner knew what they had. The same a-hole that did the deal I described also paid high retail (don't remember how much, but we all thought he was nuts) for a pretty lame '69 Strat (bad refin, broken headstock, didn't hold tune at all). But the seller was a regular, bought about a guitar a month.