Thread: Working @ GNC part time?

i nvr knew they were on commision
but it explains why GNC pimps muscle Tech
they try to push GNC products on you!
and they try to make u get that gold card.

Working at GNC is not a bad gig for a young person going to school.
1- It beats working at McDonalds.
2- You get discounts
It's not bad at all for kids working through school and training.

Hey I work there one day a week, pretty much cuz i love fitness and nutriton and thought it would be a good way to learn more anout it. Also I spend a shitload on supplements and figured the employee disount of 30% would'nt hurt either. But I was schocked to learn they don't offer any kind of traning...you learn "on the job" and I did somewhat, My mangers' awesome, a body builder himself. But i would think that a company selling life changing products such as the ones they sell would have at least some sorta program to teach there staff.
Also for a company with 5000 stores they treat there employees like crap, You aren't allowed full time hours cuz the don't wanna pay OT or any kinda benefits. You can work there for years and they never give you a raise. My friends work for Staples, Tim Horton's and they get a small rasie every 3 months or something not too mention other benefits. You are subject to bag checks, and if you bring your'e own stuff into the store you have to pack in ziplock bags and keep you reciept.
They have an inventory and POS system from the Stone age and wonder why they get ripped off, cuz they're to cheap to change the system and as an employee ur forced to put up with pricing guns and rolls and rolls of register tape.
And to beat that, the guy at Popeyes and Reflex give me alot supplemtns for the same price I would get them at with my employee discount.
I quit! i hope to find a job in the industry elsewhere. One where i don't have to force a multi on every customer that walks into the store.

These are the times I wished Vinny from Brooklyn would come over with his van.....

Have to say that a job is a job. I'm a shift manager at a dairy queen (in fact I'm at work right now), a supporter of the fast food devil. I feel like the enemy sometimes but it pays all the bills till I'm outta school. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Originally Posted by Smizzle

Hey I work there one day a week, pretty much cuz i love fitness and nutriton and thought it would be a good way to learn more anout it. Also I spend a shitload on supplements and figured the employee disount of 30% would'nt hurt either. But I was schocked to learn they don't offer any kind of traning...you learn "on the job" and I did somewhat, My mangers' awesome, a body builder himself. But i would think that a company selling life changing products such as the ones they sell would have at least some sorta program to teach there staff.
Also for a company with 5000 stores they treat there employees like crap, You aren't allowed full time hours cuz the don't wanna pay OT or any kinda benefits. You can work there for years and they never give you a raise. My friends work for Staples, Tim Horton's and they get a small rasie every 3 months or something not too mention other benefits. You are subject to bag checks, and if you bring your'e own stuff into the store you have to pack in ziplock bags and keep you reciept.
They have an inventory and POS system from the Stone age and wonder why they get ripped off, cuz they're to cheap to change the system and as an employee ur forced to put up with pricing guns and rolls and rolls of register tape.
And to beat that, the guy at Popeyes and Reflex give me alot supplemtns for the same price I would get them at with my employee discount.
I quit! i hope to find a job in the industry elsewhere. One where i don't have to force a multi on every customer that walks into the store.

it's just an other franchise trying to make money.

Originally Posted by evanps

Have to say that a job is a job. I'm a shift manager at a dairy queen (in fact I'm at work right now), a supporter of the fast food devil. I feel like the enemy sometimes but it pays all the bills till I'm outta school. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Oh man....I need a fix... ice...cream....mmmmmm

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Oh man....I need a fix... ice...cream....mmmmmm

You really start ta hate it after a while. I have no desire to eat much candy or ice cream anymore, or any kind of fast food for that matter. Guess it's a good thing but it takes the fun out of it when I do decide to eat somethin bad.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

haha, I never told anyone this because of the hatred for GNC and I would chime in with the "Fuck GNC" comments also, but I worked there for 2 years. Their shit is way overpriced, and most of their sales reps don't know a lot about the products but look at it from their point of view. You can make a shitload of money at GNC if you know how to bullshit people. When I worked there, I knew what products weren't shitty and which ones were way overpriced, but GNC is offering me 30cents for each tub of protein A that I sell, and $3.50 for each tub of protein B I sell, so I pushed all the stuff that had high commission rates. They mail out a list each month telling the employess what products have the highest commission rates, and that's what I based my sales on. It's shitty to say that, and I know it was shitty to do, but anyone who says they don't mind shaving $5 an hour off their paycheck simply because they want to be honest is totally full of bullshit.


90% of the people who came into my store were totally clueless as well as filthy rich, so I milked the shit out of them, telling them everything they wanted to hear, and after about 6-10 minutes of talking to them, I'd make anywhere from $3-$10 in commission off of the products they purchased on top of my hourly wage. I was paid $6 an hour, but I made, on average, $10-$12, but during gold card week, you can easily average anywhere from $15-$25 an hour, but it's all about having good people skills, being able to read people and tell them exactly what they want to hear. If you sit in the corner picking your nose, or tell every customer that Muscletech is overpriced as fuck, you won't make any money because Muscletech offers the highest commission rates without a doubt, and I refused to pay for anything they sold, but I pushed the fuck out of their products because I made a lot of money off them, and every 6 months or so they'd send all the employees in my store a gym bag with 4 boxes of protein bars, a 2lb. tub of protein powder and 210 caps of Hydroxycut, all because I knew how to sell. You can't beat that.

But the best part, without a doubt, is if you get a cool manager, they let you keep all the returns and recalls, so after about a year of working there, your house looks like a GNC store. I without a doubt agree with everyone that their shit is overpriced, and people say their sales staff don't know shit (a good number of them dont), but we weren't trained on what products did what and at the best price, we were told "Sell a bottle of this and we give you 20 cents, sell a bottle of that and we give you $5" so naturally we wanted more money. I was one of about 3 other employees I knew from my area (from time to time we would rotate shifts at stores depending on what was selling) that knew what all that stuff in there did, and I knew exactly what was complete crap, like that On-Cycle, Off-Cycle bullshit. That stuff is total crap, but you get $7 for selling ONE bottle.


I hear what you're saying about not wanting to feed people bullshit, but you'll say "fuck that" to that idea real quick. During my first 2 weeks, I worked with a guy who I thought sucked because he pushed crappy products, and I was honest with my customers. Well my paycheck was for $150 and his for $260 and we worked the same number of hours. He made over $100 more than me simply because he didn't mind bullshitting people. I'm sure people will say this is a shitty way to do business, becuase it is, but anyone in my situation would have done the same thing. When you realize that you can easily double your pay rate, you'll stop caring. I've never made as much money in any other job than I did at GNC.

Thanks. Now I'll NEVER shop at GNC.

Originally Posted by FitnessRubber

Thanks. Now I'll NEVER shop at GNC.

did you ever?

Originally Posted by Prince

did you ever?

Once. And the sales rep tried to sell me some overpriced crap I wouldn't have used if he'd given to me. I think it might have been gococksDJS. I've never gone back. And I never will now that I know they encourage that sort of behavior.

There's this guy at the one in the mall who has been working there since 1997 when I first went there. He wears a lab coat and looks like a mad scientist, I think everyone must think he's some kind of supplement guru or something because he always has a whole group of people listening to his every word, thing is the guy is a word for word ad from a Muscletech 12 page ad. I guess if you go in their with some knowledge of big words and have a lab coat on people think you are certified to give nutrition advice....

What a peice of shit ripping people off like that Im in sales but I always try to get people the best deal for the risk they want to take.


If you want to make alot of money you sell a good product whereboth the consumer and seller win

I'm assuming that there are quite a few employees in this thread, so I'm wondering if one of you could tell me GNC store hours?

i dont fall for that bs, i have never gone to gnc i looked in the window and seen the prices and kept walking. i go to vitamin shoppe. nobody bothers me i just get my shit and leave.