Neither rewarding as a portrait photographer nor retail job. - Anonymous employee JCP Portraits Employee Review

2.0
Oct 30, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Learning experience - very useful in learning how to deal with angry customers, like most retail jobs. And it's paid.

Cons

You are frequently on-call, sometimes being called in the day of work (although this might just be my studio). Photo sessions often take longer than the allotted time and as such, the schedule will be pushed back for the rest of the day and customers will get very angry. I personally don't think minimum wage is appropriate for what you have to do here - take photos, work the photo booth, register, cold-call, and other miscellaneous tasks.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

I love photography, I loved a lot of my clients so the work itself I enjoyed Manager just above me was awesome I started in school photography prior to Covid and loved it. If you do anything for Shutterfly, would only do school photography.

Cons

These apply to the company itself and business practices, not co workers: -Inconsistent Hours -Did not respect availability schedules (even after raising concern to District management, was offered a TEMPORARY pay increase to ignore my availability and come in because not enough people were hired for holiday season) -Pay was low for how much you're expected to do which for me included an 11 hour day because they book every 15 minutes, dock us for going over time, but expect a newborn baby shoot to be done. But we are at the same time expected to keep customers happy and blamed for a shoot going low in sales. It's a baby and every family deserves good photos of their baby. Not for it to be rushed to follow quotas which definitely won't be met when people don't want to come back.

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