purchaser

assembler

sander

machine operator

electronic assembler

Ernie Ball Inc

Music Man is owned by another company called Ernie Ball Inc. and is a great company to work for. It's a close-knit team of knowledgeable people and a great atmosphere overall. I especially enjoy the department I work in: the wood mill. My superiors and co-workers are always positive and easy to work with, we have become a well-oiled machine.
    My shift is from 12:30pm - 5:30pm Monday through Thursday. A typical day consists of me clocking in and participating in the mandatory stretches with the full-time employees after their lunch break. Then I walk to the milling area to take a look at my work orders and ask my foreman what the day's top priorities are. Then I check the fluid levels in my machines and load the necessary programs into the database. Once I have the appropriate programs, tool lengths, and offsets, I load the material, guitar necks, or bodies onto the corresponding jig in the machine, or do a dry run if it's a new program or has been a while since it was last used.
    If all machines are running smoothly and I have some downtime, I use this time to clean, fill out my inspection reports, and also to do extra inspection using the shop's various calipers, micrometers, and gauges.
    For the last 10 or 15 minutes my department wraps up production and uses this time to get their paperwork in order and clean up. I usually wear a respirator during this time since some of my fellow workers believe using compressed-air is better than sweeping.. (not me). I also take the side panels off the machines and clean them out, since this is a wood-shop there are no metal chips or coolant like some of my previous jobs, just a huge overhead vacuum-powered ventilation system that is connected to all the shop's various machines. I then return the machine's axes to the home position and shut everything down before washing up and clocking out.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I had been injured about 3 months after working there. I was out for like 2 weeks with a doc note. And because of that they didn’t approve my vacation I put notice in for like a month in advance

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Finding something interesting or challenging to do 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Corporate came in and changed a lot of the originality and comfortable vibe they had 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Mundane and straight boring work involving one or two tasks over and over again

Unliveable wages, employees living in cars. Meanwhile most thinks making guitars is profitable in the most expensive state and cry about it constantly and don't give raises that are actual impactul. Sure you get a raise but it's no where near enough tokeep up with cost of living. The raise is just a token so they can say they give you a raise. But after taxes you make the same as the year before. Grand sons are running ernies legacy into the ground.

I had a good time overall working for this company, however my direct supervisor could be condescending and unnecessarily harsh (I don't think he's working there anymore).  The projects I worked on were fun, such as buying costumes for the NAMM show and custom guitar builds.  Even though the paycheck barely paid the bills, I enjoyed the experience there because the people were so cool and it was fun to mention to people that I worked at a guitar company!  I still own two EVH guitars from my time there.

Working at Ernie Ball was a miserable experience. The workloads were overwhelming, the pay was insulting, and the expectations were impossible to meet. Leadership is chaotic, making awful decisions over and over without ever taking responsibility. The stress and frustration were unbearable, and it drained every ounce of energy and motivation. I left feeling disappointed and disillusioned, especially as a music lover who thought this would be an exciting opportunity. 

A great company to work for if you are looking for comfortable and easy. They have many perks to working here including a floating Birthday Holiday and instrument borrowing over the weekend. Guitar giveaways a couple times a year. Home ownership might be a problem.

I held a specialized position here, so my experience is not reflective of the typical job you'd get at Ernie Ball.  Most of the positions are production labor, and are decent factory jobs.

Pay is ok for production jobs, with yearly cost-of-living type raises.  Good benefits, aside from the health plan, but that's becoming the norm everywhere now.

The best aspect of the job is the 4/10 schedule.  Three day weekends every week, with overtime available a few times a year.

Honestly I started off here part time out of necessity. I’ve since then moved to full time and I just have to say working here is great but the people are the worse on the production floor. I know they have the most experience and of the majority of people but as a human being they are disgusting. They have no people skills and act like they know it all and everyone else is intellectually inferior to them when in reality anyone can do their job.

Ernie Ball Inc. has a dysfunctional leadership. Employees are overworked and stressed, yet they're given awful compensation and lackluster health benefits. Our leaders here are terrible and don't know what to do to resolve the problems we face. The leadership should just replace its useless members with competent ones. 

Highly dysfunctional, the wages are so low and everyone's on survival mode. Not enough resources to do the job successfully. Management will try to bully you if you are kind and decent. I've seen many people quit without having a job lined up afterward. If you need a job, good. But I could not recommend working for Ernie Ball any less

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