ingénieur informatique

agent administratif

aide de bureau

ARTONA GROUP

Worked for longer than I thought I would, but only because it offered me a good life/work balance with the opportunity to work hybrid. Very little room to grow, especially if you start out in either CS or as a photographer.

I'm happy for the opportunities that this job has open thus far, but I really wish I had better things to say about the culture and the people managing your day-to-day. There was always something miscommunicated, disjointed, or completely thrown out the window without your knowledge. Which was super stressful at times, and led to people essentially ghosting you - intentionally, or not, which was unprofessional and didn't help you progress anywhere. 

It was also hard to form a sense of belonging and community within the walls, as I always felt I was not a part of the "family", and it felt very clique-y (particularly with other management/higher-ups). This made me uncomfortable as I felt pushed away, made me feel like I was in high school again, but with adults.

You apply for the job thinking it will be so great and further your career as a photographer (like I did) but they don't care about you at all. Training starts at the crack of dawn and it's harsh and grilling. Management always brings up "the contract" when you tell them about an issue with scheduling or pay and they will go "but you knew this when you signed the contract". For school picture days they expect you to be at the studio at around 5:45AM to get a ride from the supervisor and then you go all the way to Langley. They always give mobile shifts out in Coquitlam or Whiterock or something and refuse to reschedule you if you cannot make it there. Studio shifts with grade 12 students are too rushed; nowhere enough time to give the client a good experience. You get told off if you overshoot/take too long. Ad says $19.80 but that's only for school picture days and once that's over, you're back to studio and mobile which is around $15-$18.

Artona was a new experience for me, since most of my experience was in retail it was a big change from working with customers to over 300 students at one time. I have to say it was a challenging job, you have to have a lot of patience because some students could be very difficult to work with. As for management they were all very helpful and flexible with your schedule. This job did help me acquire many skills because I was not only working with the students but I had to preform data entry tasks as well as dealing with customers on the telephone. Overall it was a good job but it can get a little overwhelming sometimes.

      As the student who major in photography, I sucessfully turn what I learned into practice and gain a lot of new knowledge on the mobile studio setting in schools, that's impressive.
      Due to the high volume of booking, the workload is very high, especially for the main studio in downtown. So you need to be physically and mentally strong enough for this job.
      The team is very good, people are very nice to help you to grow up.

Stay away from this company. Horrible management. They don't even know what they are doing with their business. Worked there for 2 years and had the worst experience. The company doesn't care about you. You have no benefits and they keep you on contract off and on. The photography group is great and you learn a lot from them. But the management is not respectful at all. You end up doing unsafe operations on site and they don't even provide you with safe gear. 
* They keep making a new account in Indeed to get rid of the bad reviews! Do your research.

Training is draining and mentally overwhelming. Managers yell You’re fired as a joke if you mess up. 
Early mornings. 
No job security as they hire only seasonal photographers and you have to get rehires the following year.
If you aren’t good enough you won’t get hours but they won’t say that’s how it works.
If you can’t figure something out management will not help you.
Don’t show up early for mobile studios. Supervis are late half the time and leave clients waiting in the cold. 
Management will book you for a shift and you’ll show up to no work and they won’t pay you for your time.
Don not recommend.

I was working in data entry and customer service department. Learned how to work among the co-workers, how to cope up with daily challenges that come up during work. I met with with friendly and supportive co-workers at this place. The hardest part of the job was to get through with the huge work flow efficiently because it was a seasonal job so there use to be a lot of work in that particular bracket of 4-5 months. The most enjoyable part of the job was the friendly working environment.

CSR Manager does NOT know what they are doing, makes the employees do all the work for them, does not respond to customers fast enough so there are constant calls from angry customers. When a customer calls upset about an order, and you ask for help assisting them, the manager tells you they’re busy when everyone knows they do NOTHING , especially when they work from home. Whatever you do, do NOT work here. You will dread it every single day. 

Not an organized company.
No manager or supervisor take any responsibility what so ever and load employee with tons of tasks without appropriate training.
Getting at work while locked outside.
Lousy training and no real support or in the very first day of the work.
It's all about saving more money for the company and no respect or support for employees who are loaded with work and facing unhappy clients.

Love it there, probably the best job I have ever had because of the amazing people and although I haven't tried it, there are opportunities to travel as a photographer and even to different provinces. I just wish the pay was a little better. I would say it is a great job to have if you are a university student or wanting to at least get your foot in the door in the world of photography.

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Aide de bureau 3 salaries reported	$36.60 per hour

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