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Precision Camera and Video reviews

1.8

6% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)

Phil Livingston

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10% positive business outlook

Precision Camera and Video has an employee rating of 1.8 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Precision Camera and Video employee rating is 49% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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43 reviews
2.0
Jan 8, 2021

Undervalued

Recommend
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Pros

The hours are consistent and the employees work together as a team.

Cons

Unfortunately my time at Precision was short; I chose to leave after being blatantly disrespected by the owner Phil Livingston. It is abundantly clear that the owner has no respect for his employees and does not value his employees, their skill sets, or their belongings. I was excited to work with the team in the photo lab department, the manager Noah was very welcoming and supportive. I was able to quickly settle in among the team and work on customer orders. Things turned sour just as quickly; I was stopped and accosted on my way out at the end of my shift for the crime of having a lunch box. Apparently the owner's mistrust in his employees has escalated to paranoia surrounding the theft of film from the lab. No bags of any kind are allowed; the owner expects employees to keep all belongings in their vehicle. This mandate is in full awareness that employees' cars have been broken into on the property before and that not all employees have a vehicle. When Phil stopped me, he talked down to me as though I was a child and proceeded to search my lunchbox. In the search of my property, this man put an ungloved hand inside my lunchbox in the midst of a pandemic. He then proceeded to threaten to "terminate me" if he ever saw me with my lunchbox again. This altercation was enough of an indication as to how the staff are treated that I chose not to return.

1.0
Apr 14, 2016

Disposable employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Popular Go-to location....largest camera store in Texas....knowledgeable employees. Friendly group in sales department.

Cons

Staff disrespected and mis treated. Threatened with termination at the slightest mis-step. Made to pay for ANY mistake. Money taken directly out of paycheck. Every one depressed at store by stupid management decisions.

1.0
Aug 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good role for someone who wants to learn more about photography and equipment used in the industry. You could be pricing a $20 DSLR one day, and testing a $3,000 Leica the next.

Cons

Every employee is incredibly undervalued, and the owner is one of the most reprehensible people I have ever met. He constantly patrols the entire store with his dog and looks over your shoulder in the hopes of catching you doing something wrong. He is incredibly incompetent, as he decided to let ChatGPT dictate the way he should be running his business at one point. (He literally wrote this on a whiteboard to show his employees for some reason). He never asked how his employees were doing. Instead, he asked, "What are you going to sell for me today?" Several dedicated employees in the online sales department were fired without warning for problems that were not within their ability to fix, as some website issues can only be solved by the third-party IT company that has sole access to certain website features. In turn, this created an atmosphere where every single employee began to fear for their job security. Bonuses and raises are incredibly rare, and the owner even took away the one day per week where the company pays for a staff lunch in the break room. If this wasn't enough, the owner consistently asks employees to perform non work-related tasks like getting them to move furniture into his new house, or christening the store security guard as his part-time dog walker when he's not in the office. (The dog is in the office more than the owner). I had the pleasure of working with some of the coolest and most talented people I have ever met, and I still cannot recommend finding another job enough, because I had to watch their passion and creative drive gradually wither away with each passing day.

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