Fender Musical Instruments reviews

The stellar success of Fender's flagship brand is sadly a big reason for under-performing niche brands that Fender also owns, Guild, Tacoma, Jackson as examples. There is a "rest on your laurels" attitude that sweeps through upper management every time sales are good with the Fender Brand name. But when another brand is in obvious distress and solutions are recommended often it falls on ears who would much rather hear that everything is fine and because the main brand does so well it offsets concerns. In turn, it seems the upper management doesn't really care about the lesser brands, which teaches the managers controlling those smaller brands that they shouldn't care much either. It sets up confusing and frustrating perimeters to work within and it really doesn't really seem necessary.

Second shift gets the short end and little to no recognition compared to 1st shift. Most management was sleeping around with eachother or new hires. Outside management hirees were ill-equipped and knew nothing about the industry. Constant backstabbing from other employees in order to keep you looking worse than them. Principal Master Builder for Custom Shop was secretly pushed out for sexual misconduct, Unfortunately, corporate is located in AZ and has no idea what was going on. Saturdays are “mandatory” and holidays only put you behind so you have to come in the following weekend to make up the time. If you refused overtime you paid for it… There is a cool kids club that if you make it into you are golden. Otherwise, good luck.