Supportive co-workers but disorganized management and low pay - Sales Associate/Photographer Photogenic Employee Review

3.0
20 May 2026
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Pros

Great co-workers, accommodating of scheduling limitations/unavailability THAT YOU STATE DURING FIRST INTERVIEW

Cons

Highly disorganized management that will blame you for their mess-ups, low pay, erratic hours

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5.0
25 Mar 2025
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Pros

Flexible Fast paced Easy work Not at a desk

Cons

On call 24/7 as a manager Hard to hire staff.

3.0
3 Feb 2026
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Pros

Working hours are mostly reasonable, two weeks notice for requesting days off, easy to communicate to other employees, can work your way up if you put in effort and time, pay is minimum wage Schedule is reasonable for balancing high school or college work load. Mgmt will work with you to schedule you as much as possible within working hours. As a supervisor, you get to experience live events and do event photography. This is considerably more interesting than the typical souvenir photo job. Most employees will NOT end up doing any sort of event photography. You will learn about photography, work closely with experienced photographers, and use expensive, nice equipment. You will also go out on your own to events, and be expected to take photos for the Reagan Library for official use. Your workload will consist of managing 3-12 employees for a full 9 hour day. You will open and close the location yourself, and do a closing inventory and log of the day to day. Work can be enriching and entertaining if you enjoy talking to people and managing crowds. This job would not be good for someone uncomfortable with talking to hundreds of customers for several hours on end.

Cons

Work environment & culture needs a lot of work. People are not always friendly to new employees. There are not a lot of incentives to do better since management positions are very limited. At this location, depending on the scale of employees and the season, they will typically have anywhere from 1-2 shift leads, 1-3 supervisors, and one assistant manager. Typically these spots are filled already and you must wait for them to be vacant; either they leave or get promoted (rare). If you do get promoted: pay increase is not much, going from a lead -> supervisor is about a $1.50 with x3 the amount of work and hours. You are responsible for covering your own shifts (regardless of why you may call out), sometimes scheduled too much (and if you complain, your hours will get cut way too much), going to deal with a lot of drama and gossip from coworkers, going to work long hours (~8) standing with one 30 minute lunch, and selling sometimes for hours on end to customers while also encouraging them to buy something they may not be interested in at all. Quotas: your performance is rated by two factors: capture and sales rates. There are going to be times that capture rates and sales are out of your control and you still do the best you can, and will walk away failing. Management is not always understanding of this, despite them knowing themselves it is difficult.

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