Supportive leadership and meaningful work, but demanding job - Area Manager Bella Baby Photography Employee Review

The people who work there are great, loved my manager and coworkers (in bella and in the hospitals) Liked the flexible hours and self-management aspect of the job. Really helped me to develop confidence in the work place when it comes to sales and work ethic.

Worked there when the company was changing a lot of employee expectations and felt the changes didnt always match the pay. They also measure your performance based on percentages (which is perfectly fine) However, there were a couple of times when the numbers were calculated wrong, and they attempted to put me on a PIP because of incorrect numbers even after I showed them the numbers were incorrect.

Getting to take photos of newborns.

The pay scale was really unfair. It was solely on commission. If you did the shoot, edited, and showed the parents, but they wanted to purchase later at a time you weren’t there then all of your earnings went to whoever did the final transaction. They earned a lot of money off of my work. It creates animosity amongst your coworkers. Also, the owners would take us out for these long & lavish meals and spend up to $1000 or more to “thank us”, but never gave us a bonus or raise. It was all very showy and a waste of time. It was actually quite infuriating to have a 4 hour meal we had to attend and not get anything from it. At the hospital there was a lot of wasted time just sitting around waiting for a room to be ready to shoot or show the slideshow or to even decide if they wanted to do it at all. The babies were great, but it’s the difficult parents & family members that made the job so hard.