Not as described - Sales JCP Portraits Employee Review

1.0
Dec 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You learn sales strategies and upselling

Cons

Long hours without any breaks in the holiday season. They promised regular hours but non were available after the X-mas rush. Manager manipulated the sales so she could get the sales that would bring her a commission, and gave employees the "groupon" sessions. Studio was overbook with not enough people to handle the sessions. People are rushed through a 15 minute photo session, then there is a 30 minute sales pitch period. Photo studios are sweltering from the lights. One employee never can back after going to the bathroom. Another almost passed out from the heat of the studio. Company threats customers like cattle, and employees like servants.

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5.0
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Pros

Good hours and employees temhere

Cons

Not high enough pay per hour

1.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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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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