Picture Me Portrait Studios Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for less than a year

Pros – I enjoyed meeting all the interesting people. There was always a story behind every person who took pictures. The training was fun and exciting!

Cons – I wish we had more hours to work every day.

Advice to Senior Management – Believe in your employees more and they'll believe in you. We worked hard to take those pictures and deal with the families, so a nice pictureMe party or giveaway or something would have been nice. Maybe we all could have met other PictureMe employees at a convention. We were all so disconnected from one another. Unity is what we needed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for less than a year

Pros – You can work alone. You can tailor packages to sell easier. And most families are fun and help your day go faster.

Cons – You may have to travel far and its more sales than photography

Advice to Senior Management – More staff!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Picture Me Portrait Studios full-time for more than a year

Pros – Love the customers and the photography

Cons – Stressful, high pressure situation, constant restructure of upper management, including mass firings of long time employees. Company is on the verge of bankruptcy...has gone to a "skeleton crew" in virtually every area. The company has NO CREDIT anywhere and literally quit printing portraits for 2-3 weeks after Christmas. Studio employees were NOT informed of this, and were put in the situation of having to make excuses that should NEVER have had to happen.

Advice to Senior Management – Become a PHOTOGRAPHY company again, and for god's sake quit giving away framed wall portraits! Quit giving anything away besides a single 8x10. Make the Mobile View & Share more affordable. Add it on for $5.00. Restructure our advertised offer - $9.99 per pose, 2-3 sheets.
Assess what our major competitors are doing at Lifetouch.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for less than a year

Pros – Working with kids, the (few) pleasant people, gaining experience, flexible schedule

Cons – money hungry company, slow, not much business, gets boring when no body comes in to take pictures, upset customers (almost constantly),

Advice to Senior Management – Keep your employees INFORMED so that we can make sure our CUSTOMERS are happy and satisfied and actually come back! Don't leave your employees in the dark. Also, hire managers who will actually pick up a phone call regarding customers!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – When I first started working her in 2009, I have NO complaints. I LOVED my job and my co-workers. Everyone knew their responsibilities and of course we had a goal to meet in sales but it wasn't the main focus.. the pictures were.
I moved away and came back to the same studio in 2011. The manager was very childish and left her responsibilities of the manager to us associates. Later she left and our district manager refused to hire a new manager for the studio for months. I went on maternity leave and came back and we finally had a manager but she had no clue what she was doing. Our open hours were cut so the manager only gave me one 4 hour shift a month!... the day before I was scheduled to work I stopped by the studio to double check I was supposed to work and there was strangers behind the counter not knowing who I was! I was told they would get in contact with me for went I would be scheduled to work again... went back in not long after and was told the studio was closing and that day was the last day it would be open.

Pros - fond memories from working there in 2009.
the regular customers.
working with kids
being able to get creative

Cons – The company doesn't seem to care about the employees (again I was forgotten about even though I had worked there on and off for almost 4 years!).
The pay.
Management doesn't help... we needed a new trip cord for almost a year. We kept asking our district manager to help us but we never did get one (until a month before we closed)
poor training (again in 2009 everything was great, my initial training was good but when I returned everything was just thrown at us and we were expected to know what to do with it)
SAS

Advice to Senior Management – Do your job! Go the studios and see what is going on, you need to see things on our level. AND don't forget about your hourly employees!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for less than a year

Pros – Gain experience with working with kids

Cons – Business is money hungry & doesn't care about the quality of photos.
Doesn't use actual professional photography techniques.

Advice to Senior Management – Take more time in training your employees to get an actual good photo and maybe your sales will be better.
Train managers to treat their studio workers with respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Picture Me Portrait Studios full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – It is fun creating portrait memories for the customers.

Cons – The pay is very low , the expectations are high and the upper management tends to push hard and use treats. Don't be fooled, this is a SALES job but without the benefit of commission or incentives.
This is a company that is well known for dangling the carrot and making promises they don't keep.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to use modern positive management techniques and use realizable pay incentives to
motivate your employees. Reward performance with real monetary gains NOT the illusions of gains.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Creative
-working with kids
- Flexible hours
- It is a good starter job, just don't plan to stick around, move on.

Cons – -working with kids (it is a pro and a con)
- demanding customers
-shitty pay

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees better, the job could be very cool!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – photography, working with children, building a client base, starter job

Cons – terrible management, terrible pay, bankrupt company

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to MANAGE!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Picture Me Portrait Studios part-time for more than a year

Pros – The pros of this job are that if you love photography, it's fun. Working with children is great too. Also, its a good opportunity to work independently.

Cons – The management is terrible, the district managers are rude and inconsiderate, and often the studio managers are disorganized and lazy, as well as treating their employees unfairly and being dishonest too boot, a universal with this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management, your hourly employees and customer are what keeps your job secure and gives you a paycheck to begin with, think twice before you walk all over them and lie to their faces.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company