Just another School Photography Company - Photographer Lifetouch Employee Review

3.0
Dec 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A different place every day to work. No two days alike. No nights or weekends, summers off, winters off.

Cons

Not much opportunity to advance as a photographer. Not a competitive pay wage. Can get to be like a broken record of saying the same thing over and over by the end of the season. Its like a cookie cutter, no creativity, same pose every kid, every day.

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Cons

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Pros

Strong since of community at local level, and support from Directors and regional managers however all that support is no longer employed.

Cons

Revolving CEO lead to new strategic focus every 3 years. Round after round of layoffs, mergers, restructures. I went through no less than 6 during my 5 years as a senior manager. Lost local control, and ability to build relationships with accounts. Closed offices based on lease agreements rather than area performance. I would be very careful to ask questions about culture, and tenure of staff, ask how many offices were closed or restructures have happened since Shutterfly, and then Apollo Global Capital. Apollo Global Management usually holds onto assets for 3-5 years, we are past that mark so I would be expecting that they will be breaking up Shutterfly in the near future if it is no longer profitable.

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