Lifetouch reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(2,229 total reviews)
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Ken Murphy

51% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Lifetouch has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,229 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lifetouch employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 13, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great opportunity to develop sales experience. Retirement ESOP and good insurance benefits. Good vacation and summer hours.

Cons

Workload is impossible to manage and salary and commissions are on the low end. You can easily work 50-60 hours in a week with the need to work more. Management seems to make up rules and procedures as they go along.

1.0
Mar 5, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

It was good money for the department I was in. I got to work with great people in the field and most of the employees at HQ were great too. ESOP when it was actually worth something.

Cons

Senior and mid-management are screwing the company into the ground. Lack of proper procedures on the latest equipment roll out was pathetic. They took a really insightful product and totally failed on the deployment of it. Losing 31 schools in 2 works in one territory because of lab issues is a prediction of things to come. You want to be in yearbook production, go to Jostens because Lifetouch sucks at it. They are losing more schools than they are getting and it's all to blame on bad mismanagement of this rollout. Middle management is too pre-occupied with saving their jobs and ESOP stocks that they aren't doing their real jobs. Oh, anyone that tells you that it's an employee owned company just because you get stocks is pulling your leg. There are no stockholder meetings, you have no say in how the company is run and they will tell you everything is fine in the morning and let you go by that afternoon as happened to another coworker.

1.0
Aug 5, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Steady paycheck. I wish I could say more.

Cons

Way too many chiefs that don't know jack about photography. Too many hours witout breaks. 30 minute lunch and Chinese Overtime. As much as $1.90 an hour. Do a prom and collect $10,000 and they give you $35. A joke. Plus it takes 8 to 10 hours out of your day. Don't come up short or there is hell to pay. The lab makes all the rules. Photographers have no say. Very low gas reimbursement. 28 cents a mile.

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