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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Dave W on April 23, 2015, 02:58:16 PM

Title: Here's your chance
Post by: Dave W on April 23, 2015, 02:58:16 PM
Job Opening - Product Manager for Gibson Brands (http://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/product-manager-gibson-brands-JV_IC1144541_KO0,15_KE16,29.htm?jl=1417148280&utm_source=jobfeed&utm_medium=email&utm_content=jf-ol-viewjob&utm_campaign=jobfeed-ol&paoIdKey=MA==)

Come on now, who's going to step up and apply? Just think, you could establish a Department of Chrome.  :)
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Highlander on April 23, 2015, 03:09:18 PM
Department of Chrome...? sung to the Alice tune Dept of Youth...? :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Pilgrim on April 23, 2015, 03:45:51 PM
I think Mark should change his band's name to "Department of Chrome".  It would fit.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: OldManC on April 23, 2015, 06:00:20 PM
All you need to know about why they never get it right these days. Under minimum qualifications:

"Minimum of 5 years of successful product management experience, preferably aligned to retail luxury/lifestyle products."

Who cares if you even like, let alone play or appreciate fine, EXPENSIVE musical instruments.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: TBird1958 on April 23, 2015, 09:31:15 PM


 I think the right man for the job is a purple haired Drag Queen.  ;)
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Highlander on April 23, 2015, 11:48:05 PM
Forward the CV to Henry, right away... no time to waste, your Purpleness... ;)
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: uwe on April 24, 2015, 07:18:21 AM
Department of Chrome? I'd be the Director of f***ing pitch-black Darkness!

(http://www.remotecentral.com/dvd/pitchblack-4.jpg)

Plus the immediate reintroduction of the Continental V in a limited edition of, errrm, one.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Pilgrim on April 24, 2015, 08:11:38 AM
And here's how you could tour the US:

(http://cdn.hiconsumption.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Darth-Vader-Hot-Air-Balloon-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 24, 2015, 08:59:36 AM
Just think, you could establish a Department of Chrome.  :)

Nickel, dammit; NICKELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: uwe on April 24, 2015, 09:53:26 AM
We actually saw the plant in Nashville (and the one in Memphis too, it's downtown). Pretty non-descript, in a commercial area with lots of logistics companies, could use some new shine and comparatively small. We saw what must have been the packing station through a window (we were there when it was closed), looked surprisingly mom & pop to me.

My only comparison is the Warwick factory which I saw in the late nineties on a tour and which was much more modern and mechanized. As large or even larger too.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Highlander on April 24, 2015, 04:23:23 PM
Plus the immediate reintroduction of the Continental V in a limited edition of, errrm, one.

Err... two...? didn't the other one slip through the net, to all intents and purposes...? ;)

I'd be the Director of f***ing pitch-black Darkness!

Vin Hornung, my Lord...? :vader:
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: mc2NY on April 25, 2015, 10:23:24 AM

None of us qualify.

Notice none of the requirements state any knowledge of the MImindustry, musical instruments or related products is required.

FYI....Any of my friends who have been Gibson Product Managers and left have nothing good to say.

Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Nocturnal on April 26, 2015, 09:36:55 AM
None of us qualify.

Notice none of the requirements state any knowledge of the MImindustry, musical instruments or related products is required.

FYI....Any of my friends who have been Gibson Product Managers and left have nothing good to say.

Fender has been local here for quite a while now. Most current or former employees that you speak with have very little positive to say about them. I think a lot of people that love guitars/music go into these places with certain ideas of what it is going to be, and then find out that it is a large corporation run just like other large corporations and the fact that guitars are involved is the only thing that separates this company from one that makes ovens. Both companies are guilty of attempting to attach their brand to a "lifestyle" and sometimes it really shows IMO.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: exiledarchangel on April 26, 2015, 02:21:38 PM
Department of Chrome? I'd be the Director of f***ing pitch-black Darkness!

(http://www.remotecentral.com/dvd/pitchblack-4.jpg)

Plus the immediate reintroduction of the Continental V in a limited edition of, errrm, one.

And here my dear friends is one very rare picture of the Total f***ing Darkness prototype, it is a black Gibson Continental V with black hardware of course.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Highlander on April 26, 2015, 02:57:53 PM
No, you got that one mixed up with the black-cat-in-the-coal-cellar picture...
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: 4stringer77 on April 26, 2015, 04:42:34 PM
I'd just reissue every bass from the original EB, up to whatever they made before selling to Norlin, to exact specifications in an annual yearly run and let everyone else duke it out. Good business plan? Probably not, then again somebody out there still drinks black label beer, enjoys peach snuff and buys Jerry Reed records, so anything's possible.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Pilgrim on April 26, 2015, 04:50:07 PM
I thought it was the grille on the new Lincolns.

(http://image.trucktrend.com/f/multimedia/photogallery/9352726/163_0802_04z%2Blincoln_mkt_concept%2Bfront_grille_view.jpg)
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: the mojo hobo on April 26, 2015, 05:38:11 PM
Chrome is big on vehicles lately. I saw a Ford trunk the other day that had enough chrome to do a couple of hundred pickup covers.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Bionic-Joe on April 26, 2015, 05:57:19 PM
Gibson was voted the worst company in the United States to work for.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: mc2NY on May 01, 2015, 04:36:18 PM
Gibson was voted the worst company in the United States to work for.

Henry let them vote ?

Wasn't that the press release that read  "Gibson Voted Number One in U.S.A. ! "

Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Dave W on May 01, 2015, 08:31:13 PM
Gibson was voted the worst company in the United States to work for.

By a handful of people on glassdor.com's web forum. Don't read anything into it, because it's about as valid as drawing names at random out of a hat.
Title: Re: Here's your chance
Post by: Highlander on May 02, 2015, 12:15:39 AM
Lincoln Continental V, Al...?