Lifetouch reviews

Management doesn’t care about their employees, they only care about the job getting done and how the school feels. You are the face that walks into these schools so if there’s a problem, you’re the one that gets yelled at by directors when it’s higher ups fault. You’ll get sent to a job without things you need to do your job effectively such as a roster of children’s names and your left there rushing to type in 150+ kids names before you have to start for the day. Things that should already be done for you before you start. If you try and call corporate to voice your concern they tell you to ‘deal with it’ because there’s nothing they can do on their end. You’re not paid enough to be treated like trash from your higher ups. If you have something like a doctors appointment and you give your notice that you need the day off a month in advance they’ll give you so much crap for it because they don’t want anyone taking off, even for health reasons. You’ll find a much better job-don’t work here even as a last resort.

The hourly pay isn't worth the skill, strength, patience, and endurance required to work this job day in day out. This job is only for people who are not the heads of households as you cannot survive in the NYC metropolitan area with minimum wage. Although you should be, there is an expectancy from the schools that photographers work until the job is done which means no breaks. This can be difficult when stuck in a school until late afternoons without taking a break to eat. It is unfortunate precedent set that needs correction, and the main office and sales team should be setting proper expectancy with schools that photographers are human too. Your car is packed with equipment 24/7 unless you live in a house with a garage where you can take the equipment out. You have to carry a lot of equipment in and out of schools, often up and down stairs, usually by yourself. Yes, this is just a job, and someone had to do it, but the pay does not equal the work level required to make it worth it. And you will get sick from seeing different kids in different schools every day, you just will.