Worst job experience ever - Photographer The RealReal Employee Review

1.0
21 July 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You literally don’t have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to, so it’s great for people like me. But my coworkers here are kind and creative people, they are the only good vibes happening here.

Cons

1. The job description doesn’t tell you exactly what you will be doing, so you thought you would be a photographer, but instead you are just a person who dresses mannequin and clicks button. 2. Horrible working environment. The warehouse is dusty and smelly. No windows. Very much like a modern sweatshop. 3. The low pay. For the amount of work they are asking, the pay just doesn’t adjust it. They treat you like a robot and want to pay you like a robot. 4. No advancement. They called it internal promotion but I’m not seeing any professional career building on this, basically you just get to shoot shoes instead of clothes, what an improvement. 5. It’s crazy how physical demanding it is. They will set daily goals for you and constantly remind you how far along on your process. Everyone has some kind of pains on their body, but they expect you to just ignore it and keep working, and they will track down your break times, which is ridiculously short. 6. Managers are trying to act like they care but they actually don’t. They just want to you get things done. I feel bad for them because that’s probably how they are treated by their upper management. Overall, this place is bad for your health but even worse, it kills your soul as a creative person. If you are in for the paychecks, do what you gotta do. If you want to do anything that has to do with your creativity and skills, don’t come here.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
13 June 2026
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Pros

Pay and commission can be good, but the structure is unnecessarily convoluted and not as generous as it seems, and you will have no work/life balance if you want to actually make consistently high commission. If you have a true passion for luxury and fashion, you do get a lot of opportunities to handle and interact with special/rare items, and depending on store location you can meet a lot of interesting industry people and celebrities, especially during Fashion Weeks

Cons

Poor and unsupportive management with extremely unrealistic demands and expectations; you will get virtually no training, but are immediately expected to know how to do everything. The overall company culture is just unpleasant and very cliquey, and there's constant employee turnover. The online customer service system is terrible, so you will frequently have to handle customer issues that have nothing to do with you/your sales.

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