[ Closed ] Gibson worst workplace. Joe u can`t mean t support such a crap company

I have no problem with Joe having an endorsement with them. I don't agree with the practices but it wouldn't stop me from getting one if I really was dying to have one.

With that being said, I've found that the insane prices and spotty quality control for a "premium" guitar has kept my Gibson numbers down. I would buy a used one for a good price but I'm not paying what they are asking for new guitar. I have found some epiphones to be on par and better in the feel and looks department then some gibsons. A pickup change will have it sounding as good too. My stock Epiphone Slash Rosso Corso is on par with many gibsons I've held and played.

Looking forward to the day we hopefully get an Epiphone 59 principal skinner signature model.

My brother-in-law worked for Gibson.  The "stories" are pretty much all true.  Not a great place to work, at least not for "middle management"....  you're completely dispensable, and Henry is pretty much crazy/irrational.

I don't have an ax to grind, my BIL works for FENDER now, and loves it there. I'm just relaying what he has told me about working for Gibson.

+1.  I know nothing first hand about Gibson, but, I do know quite a bit about Joe.  If he feels comfortable with the company, I'm good with them.  I firmly would give Joe the benefit of the doubt over some "journalist" that may have reasons of his own, to write this story.  Find it hard to believe that the company could be that bad and still attract a competent work force to put out a quality product. Also question the motives of who ever started this thread.  It's their 11th entry on the forum and are attempting to make Joe look bad.  Not what we do here.  The very large majority are here because we love Joe's music and equally as important is Joe's story, the type of man he is.   Internet smear campaigns are not going to work here.

Ad 1: You don`t have to have any first hand knowledge.... Well there are a lot of things that happened in history that i do not have any first hand knowledge but due to overwhelming evidence i believe history books. The information delivered all over the net supplies significant evidence that there might be a considerable amount of truth to the "malicious rumors" put out on the internet. With other words i do not have to eat **## to know that it doesn`t taste. The smell is enough. There is not just someone with a grudge there seems to be a big number of people with a grudge. So maybe there is some truth to the rumors? Or is there a conspiracy against Gibson going on?
Ad 2: "Also all companies have employees who moan and complain.... " There are bad employees too, no doubt. But again back to 1)- evidence seems to be in disfavour of the Gibson management. But then again... you need proof. No crime without a dead body, right? That being said i do not think it is the right time for employees to complain, taking the job market situation into consideration. That said: What is a bigger problem in the world today: Employees exploiting employers or vice versa?
I do not shame anyone into anything. Joe may have good reasons why he still is with Gibson. That being said i find the body of evidence sufficient to make the decision to not buy a Gibson. If i were Joe and would have an ok relationship to the CEO of Gibson and besides that a good paycheck from them i would have more than a hard time to decline Gibson on the basis of the accusations at hand. Props to Joe for not already deleting that thread. So  in no way am i expecting Joe to answer here because such a thing could be quite complicated on several levels.

That is just my opionion.