The absolutely unrealistic expectations placed on you as the company serially under-staffs Art Prepares and instead expects the commissioned staff (Art Associate & above) to do two jobs but get paid for one...which works great for the Auctioneers and Gallery Directors because they've been hazed enough into the mob-boss mentality of the system to pressure you to work beyond reasonable extremes (and beyond the hourly limits of cruise lines & the International Labor Org ILO), always getting off work past midnight on some lesser-well-managed-ships (which might happen because, well, you're out at sea and stuck with whatever underqualified management team you have who rose-through-the-ranks for questionable reasons...with no reasonable way for HQ to really see what's going on), and often times closer to 1am, when you're due up at 5:30 am....no heed to the fact that ILO & the cruise lines mandate you need at least 6 hours from the end of one shift to the beginning of the next....
...if you bring that up, you'll just be encouraged to lie on your timecard because hey you're just a body to be thrown on the fire. Most people leave either within the first 2 weeks, or if not that, first 2 months when the see the structural inefficiencies that you're just expected to deal with...think of lockers so overstocked that it takes you (bare with me now) 20 minutes just to get to something in the shelves because you need to take broken-trolleys out& down the hallway that are stuffed with 'art' just because the lockers are so overstuffed that every time you close up the locker, you have to wheel in trolleys filled to the brim in on top. Seriously on most ships you will play such a constant game of "tetrus" trying to find a place for everything that what could be loaded away in an hour will take you at least two hours just to cram everything in.
Also, if you have a conscience or sense of decency, when you realize even art-works of decent "taste" are really just computer reproductions with a clear-coat of GLUE glazed over them to look like someone put paint-strokes of color, its a little hard to approach clients with a straight face. But really, the art itself is debatable...the REAL problem with this subcontractor is that they indenture a cult-like attitude of "buy in & commit yourself 16 hours a day with 5 hour sleep between one day and the next, or cop out" (so much for the fact you're not even effective when they treat you like that sleep is unreasonable) when a lot of what you end up spending your time on is systematic waste that should be better organized, for both you individually AND THE COMPANY to better make money...and the way to rise through the ranks is to adopt this attitude yourself, to become adept at pushing others to extremes that are not just unreasonable but also not productive. Taaaadaaa you get ship after ship managed mostly by unreasonable children who have been so indentured into the system that they don't know any better but to continue inflicting what they've "learned".
ALSO: beware of the unrealistic "high ratings" this company has gotten on here, I am reasonably certain employees who are in the mid-way of "sticking it out" (as my roommate was) are encouraged to leave positive reviews as they convince themselves it's worth the while....most employees leave if not within the first 2 weeks then the first 2 months. Many of the reviews on here are from the few people who have staid around to join the cult/labor pyramid scheme, rather than the majority who leave.
