- Hours are dependent on management’s favoritism. Don’t criticize management if you want to work more hours.
- Hours are incredibly inconsistent, and your schedule for the week is often released less than 12 hours before you’re expected to work. You essentially have to organize your entire life around this job. Management constantly changes their excuse for the schedule being released late.
- Management is actively retaliatory, punishing workers with uniform changes and fewer hours if complaints are brought up.
- You are entirely responsible for finding covers, management will not help you. You also have to wait for management to approve your shift cover request. There is no forgiveness for doctor’s appointments or similar obligations.
- Co-workers call off frequently, so you often have to work harder to make up for this.
- Fairly stressful during busy periods. Don’t work here if you have social anxiety.
- High turnover, associates regularly quit or are fired. Incredibly strict workplace for how disorganized and unprofessional management is.
- Communication with management is horrific. Management will not answer calls, texts, or UKG messages. If you’re ill and cannot make a shift, you’re required to constantly call the hotline to notify management. Hotline often won’t take your calls if they’re busy and/or there’s a regional meeting. Management often won’t approve shift change requests in time.
- Very strict about attendance, one unexcused absence is grounds for termination in your first month. You can only call off when severely ill and are able to get a doctor’s note (or have proof of family emergency). Tardiness is punished severely.
- Any phone use is punished severely.
- If not actively working, you’re expected to just stand there and stare.
- Standing and walking all day, few breaks. Working in 100+ degree weather with insufficient breaks. Management doesn’t care if you get heat exhaustion and/or faint.
- You will be assigned 12-hour shifts without notice.
- You are unable to change your availability during your first month, even if you get another important commitment.
- You don’t learn much about photography, and there isn’t an emphasis on photo quality.
- Many race, sexuality, and gender-based microaggressions from management.