Q&A With GNC Employees

Tell me about a time when you had to gain commitment from others on a new vision from the company. Can you give me a short scenario? Just so I understand.. Tell me about a specific change you had to introduce within a certain group or company? What resistance did you incur from the team or individuals and how did you overcome it? What techniques have you learned to manage and supervise others behavior and how to correct that? As a manager your responsible to improve the financial aspect of the company, how are you going to do that in the short term?

Rote and many.

Very long interview with standard questions and then a lot about retail.

Extremely pigeon holed into this "platinum" thing, never talks about nutrition, immature, and offers no career development or growth pathway save for the 2 store managers they choose to drive around with them. Have their own clique, but unlike other sales cultures this clique is extremely gossipy, backbites, and undercuts employees.

Great at my store.

Overworked, stressed but knowledgeable once trained always personable.

Fair in the fact that they have started to advance women at least on a lower level.

There are "tricks" that managers will teach you in the field to pad your "pro access" and "auto delivery" numbers. These two metrics are the sole concern

Communication, product knowledge, math and biology and chemistry would be very helpful. Personality is also important.

There are no layoffs. They will ignore you, ridicule you, and place you in awful situations in hopes that you will quit, and it is done a lot.

GNC doesn't lay off. They just terminate.

Key Performance Indicators: Pro Access 3.5% of your customers Auto Delivery 2.0% of your customers These give you Platinum metal status (like some kind of a rapper culture) and that is all that matters. You can imagine the form of strategies that will occur to protect and pad those percentages.

By how many people you can sign up for Pro Access, how many boosters can be added to sales and how many people sign up for ADAS

No benefits for Part-Time Employees, Full Time Employees are given 16 hours of PTO after 10 months, 401k, dental, vision (standard in all)

Not good compared to other stores

Part time non. Full time manager insurance, vacation and sick time.

Insurance. Employee discount.

GNC upper management has a tendency to bully. This is discussed. At store level vibe is great.

There isn't any office vibe. We all get along though.

I just dropped down to part time because I had no life other than work. I am now much happier.

Forget about social life. Too tired.

As far as my customers go I love my job. Otherwise not so much.

It's hard to stay positive when the paycheck doesn't go very far and I have to work two other jobs and many managers are in the same situation. PMS are not what they used to be. Commission has dwindled down to bare minimum.

Caring and ambitious also those who are money hungry. The job requires you to work very hard for your paycheck.

Ambitious people with a positive attitude.

My customers

My customers. I love helping people live their best life possible.

Fast

Hectic due to the shortage of hours.

We don't have team outings. GNC doesn't have finances for them.

We don't have outings. Regional meetings usually twice a year.

A few of the third party vendors pay promotional money's for selling their products. Gnc pays on a few products. They run contests.

Nothing unique. Employee discount. Loyalty.

I can't speak for the corporation. My store has always had great diversity.

My store has a good amount and always has.

Great at my store

Could be a lot better if they had hours to train.

45 minutes to one hour

One hour.

Come dressed professionally, speak clearly and give honest answers.

Be confident, well mannered and dressed. Be a customer. Be experienced in some retail.

Good

It took way too long and I felt intimidated back then.

Dress professionally

Manager-two months.

The manager. Took a month.

We have every size, age and color so I don't have an answer to that question.

As a woman with prior experience I was hoping for advancement beyond store management but GNC is basically a Male dominated industry. I work in a remote area so advancement was non existent. Too much effort to replace me.

I found other places not so intimidating.

Comparable