Photogenic reviews

2.5

27% would recommend to a friend

(197 total reviews)

Steve Craig

17% approve of CEO

13% positive business outlook

Photogenic has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 197 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Photogenic employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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197 reviews
1.0
Jan 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Co-workers are usually understanding of one another and work as a team. Scenery if you are in to Battle Ships and Water Cruises. Discount on the cruises and Nauticus. Gift Cards are given as incentives to bring in high service scores. If the venue manager favors you, advancement can be fast.

Cons

Working outside in heat, cold, or, rain. Long work hours with no break, even though, after working 6 hours a 30 minute break is taken out of your check automatically. Moonlight cruises are over at 2-AM and you then have sell photos to drunken customers (who are almost always rude). Management is weak and uneducated. Management forces lower workers to perform manager work. Favoritism is real. Despite if you are good at selling photos, the manager only keeps and promotes employees based on the popularity of the employee. Manager refuses to hire men. Manager makes racists comments about both customers and employees. Manager never actually works, just sits in the office overlooking service scores. Managers misjudge employee's performance due to favoritism and never being around. Customers complain constantly about how overpriced the photos are. The entire shift you work is spent standing. You are required to almost force customers into taking a quick and impersonal low quality photo. Then you are forced to sell the low quality photos for $25-$40.00. Also the pay is minimal and the promotions are a scam, they give you an extra $0.25-$1.00 to basically do the manager's job, then apply a heavy amount of pressure to preform. The drama within the company and the host venues is ridiculous. The managers are unprofessional when communicating within the company. The schedule is almost never posted in a timely manner. The manager will only give the majority of hours to their favorites. This can cause your work schedule and paychecks very inconsistent. Once the manager had their sister working hours, because they decided they wanted to take hours away from other employees they did not like, a stupid decision on their part because they had no other employees to work those shifts. So they unethically let the sister work although she is not a Photogenic Inc. employee. Leaving other employees out of hours to work and money in their pockets.

3.0
Jan 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free/discounted venue tickets, its a cool benefit of working in the Chicago venues and really worth it for family, dates or anything else, getting random celebrity visits occansionally

Cons

Favortism when it comes to promotions, skydeck staff was very unprofessional, people including supervisors and mangers were drinking and smoking (and not cigarettes) on the clock, leads get paid less than supervisors at Skydeck but basically perform the same duties, you are always wondering if you are going to get cut for slow season, so it is a very unstable job

3.0
Jul 26, 2014

Cool.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly assistant managers, great pay, great hours

Cons

Manager yelled at employees in front of guest and visitors, horrible uniforms. make you pay for your background check, pee test, and uniform so its 10$ coming out of 7 paychecks and they let you know last minute. Managers are very rude to customers who doesn't want to buy the 20$ photo packages. If you can't take 20 photos within an hour they fire you, doesn't matter how much of a good worker you are.

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