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Professional Music Technology

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Worst company ever. - Anonymous employee Professional Music Technology Employee Review

1.0
17 May 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Staff Discount. Most of the store floor staff are nice people.

Cons

Worked for this company for 3 years as a member of the sales floor staff. While there can be a good vibe in the stores themselves, what comes down from the 2 directors of the company makes this company an absolute joke to work for. Utterly racist, homophobic, sexist, disrespectful and just downright impolite. I had multiple run ins with these, and I’ve never felt so disprespected and for as an employee. Some of their marketing tactics are so distasteful, I literally couldn’t believe my eyes sometimes. I advise anyone looking to work here, be very, very careful. What should be a really great job and company (if they changed the awful name) is ruined by poor management at the very top. I was seen as quite a respected employee among my peers (in store and other stores) but never once got any acknowledgement of my hard work from the top, who seem to think if you have a poor spell or need some help, the best route is intimidation as soon as possible. The directors seem to enjoy buying all their products for cheap, and are renown in the sales industry for being absolutely horrendous to work with due to the pressure they put on other companies. This mantra is evident in the way the company runs, as everything is ‘cheap as chips’. Awful website, slow and unresponsive. Downright terrible till and stock systems (from 2002) which could be all be fixed with a little investment. Little to no health and safety also. No opportunities to progress unless you make the ‘big bucks’ - which says a lot about the kind of people they are. Yes you need to make money, but you also need to look after your employees and create a positive working atmosphere. And that’s basic buisness, which they obviously fail to recognise. I mean, it took 2 years for me to get a copy of my signed contract...!? Overall let down my very poor management, marketing and overall design. I feel if the directors could just feel an ounce of love, maybe they’d pay their employees correctly, invest in proper systems and be a little more ‘modern’, they could maybe pass as an ok company to work for.

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3.0
5 Apr 2024
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Pros

Shop staff teams are some of the most fun, talented and interesting people I have worked with. Being musicians, most of the staff I worked with had a particular area of expertise and interest within MI and a great sense of humour. This made working in the team fun, and interesting to learn from others and find shared interests and goals. They are the biggest credit to Pmt and often the most underpaid and underappreciated by higher management. Offers good connections into MI, especially if working in one of the larger PMT stores. Would semi frequently get visits from sales reps, product specialists and musical artists. All more actively willing to introduce themselves to you than company executives would be on the odd occasion they visit your store. So much less frequently now, but depending on your area of expertise, some really nice gear would pass through the shop allowing you to get hands on and try out the latest releases from major brands as they landed. On the subject of music gear, trade-ins were probably my favourite to deal with as the items customers brought in would often be the most interesting bits of kit in the shop in recent times. The discretion staff would have over deals offered on part exchanges was a nice change to all the usual red tape around price matching, margin targets and a flawed new refund policy.

Cons

Pay was not good, and showed no sign of rising above national minimum wage within nearly 5 years of working there. Expressed more than multiple times an interest in developing my skill set in other areas of the business but the company just did not want to know. Just one example of the underappreciation and general feeling of stagnation within store sales staff. Bonus scheme for shop staff had been made almost unrealistic and pointless by the time I left. Talent and potential shown from staff within the company often went unrecognised by higher management. A disconnect and consistent lack of communication felt between in store sales, online sales, marketing and purchasing. Would often end up in frustration for staff and customers. 30 minute lunch break for a 9 hour working day 9am-6pm. Bank Holidays worked on standard pay. Experienced extremely uncompassionate and unhelpful interactions with HR Department.

3.0
24 Mar 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The staff that work here are great and are like minded and musical

Cons

No sick pay, long hours, lots of manual labour, unreachable targets, not many employment benefits

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