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Please be VERY cautious ! That is a NY NY land line and its not associated with any business listing. Don't give them any personal info until you research the attorney and find they are in good standing with the state licensing board. Once you do that look up the attorney by name in the phone book. Then call the office and make sure that attorney is really launching a CAS There are a
lot of weird scams out there! Scam artists take advantage of
peoples potential vulnerability during times like this.
LOL one of my DMs had us play those childish games. Problem was
she never seemed to remember to give the winner their prize.
I find those games to be insulting to adults! That is the kind of thing kids do in grade school.
I think that tells you exactly how simple minded they think we are.
What is worse is nobody stands up and tells them NO I'm not playing your stupid games. I think taking a stand and saying NO would give them cause to think about how you will or will not allow them to treat you in the future!
YOU crack me up!
These people were LIED TO...don't act like they just missed the big sign. Time after time after time RDs and DMs told them on conference calls that the company was fine.....it was all just rumors. RDs and DMs also told people there were "buyers". Jim Able himself sent out an email saying there were buyers and they were working out the complicated details.
When they closed "under performing" studios they told the remaining studios they were "The Best Of The Best"
What CPI did was use tricks and manipulations to keep
people working. The SMs were sales people and
photographers not FBI agents !
About 10 months.
The merge happened toward the end of last
May if I recall correctly.
Given the current state the company is in IMO
it could take less time on this go around.
Yeah me too but still no bonus....not happy
I seriously doubt it but since stocks are only .06 per share it might be worth throwing few cents into the wishing well. LOL
Are you in Canada?
The company closed all of its US operations. The studios they have that remained open FB are in Canada. bearish
The sole purpose of this forum is to discuss stocks, trading and the likes. The admins here have been very kind to allow us the freedom to use their board (FOR FREE) to vent etc. However to blatantly disrespect the TOU is quite rude and unacceptable !
He seems to suffer from delusions of grandeur. He isn't anybody important.He just pretends.......like children pretend. His posts have no real intellectual depth or originality. He just keeps posting the same old boring dialog over and over and over.
Sadly we are the face of CPI. All of CPIs dirty deeds will cause people to question our integrity. I am ashamed to be associated with CPI. I will NEVER set foot in my studios Walmart again. Having to face the customers and host store management is an embarrassment!
A character in the TV series "The Lying Game"
No offense intended but how can anyone still believe
anything CPI says?
IMO:
They seem to have little or no value in truth. They seem
conscious of their decisions to provide false information.
They realize what is true and what is not but seem to not care.
They have their narcissistic agenda and what becomes
of their employees and customers appears to be of
no concern.
If CPI sent out an email that said "Hello today is Monday
and the sky is blue" I'd question it and check the facts
before believing a word of it.....just because it came
from them.
Thank you for the well wishes! Sadly is just isn't going to happen. We got robbed, plain and simple. They failed to pay us our earned PTO and our earned bonuses. They failed to pay us for the MLK holiday even though they said they would. Bottom line is they are not straight shooters. They dangle a carrot to get you to do what they want. Even if you produce results you never get the carrot.
I learned something from this! I will NEVER again put up with this kind of ridiculous garbage from another employer.
That is EXACTLY what they did before they closed us!
The writing is on the wall. I hope you all get out
before they do to you what they did to us!
At one time I defended CPI.........no more!
My guess is that the fairy tales CPI is telling
employees on the "Canadian side" is little more than the
same pack of lies they told us.
The things they told us were nothing more than
manipulations designed to keep us working like a bunch
of jackasses. Day by day I grow to loathe CPI more!
Were you paid bonus on last Fridays check?
I'm not mad at you. I'm glad you were paid. However I am furious that I did not get paid my bonuses !!!
According to everything I'm reading we should have gotten paid bonus on our last check.
CPI WILL hear from me concerning this matter.
I get that BUT are your associates or customers going to stay by you when/if you cannot meet your financial needs because you don't have a job? In the end was it really "loyalty" or was it martyrdom?
Am I understanding this correctly? CPI waited until they closed the US side of CPI and then paid the Canadian side their bonus?
If that is the case I'm finding that to be really sleazy ! I worked hard for and earned my bonuses! Did I get them? NO!!!
I'll add JCP recently had a couple big insider trades.
Its seems between the Director and a trustee 20 million stocks were
unloaded.
"Corporate executives have bought and sold shares of their own companies, and outside investors have long tracked such trades, with the belief that insiders have a particularly good feel for how companies are faring."
I think the JCP side of Lifetouch is in deep trouble.
Sears is in a lot better shape than JCP. If JCP doesn't do something smart they'll end up just like CPI. The JCP stocks are at $15 a share (down to less than HALF of what they were a yr ago) and Sears are are hovering around $50 a share.
I bet those Lifetouch/ JCP portrait studio manager are
sweating.....if they're smart they are thinking about finding
new jobs.
I wonder if their VIPs are selling them the same "WE'RE FINE"
malarkey that we heard.
My guess is they'll be stupid like we were and stay till the ship sinks LOL because they "love their jobs"
Loving your job is great IF it pays the bills!
WOW My fingers are crossed for you!
I'm thinking CPI should send out instructions like that to the Walmart and Sears people...they sent them to us.
Seriously?
"Bad guys" came from YOU not me. You're reading way too much into what I said. The points I made were not to defame anyone at home office(not that I owe you an explanation). The points I made were to give validation to the fact the home office is NOT empty. People who think there isn't anybody watching WiLife may be in for a big surprise when they get caught because somebody WAS/IS watching those cameras.
I will admit I did at one point make a snide comment about their "pizza party". Yeah I get that they are going to be out of a job just like me. However, they were at least given the courtesy of a little send off. Some of us in the field didn't even get a "thanks have a nice life" SMs and associates walked into studios to find they couldn't clock in after getting up, getting ready for work and driving to their studios. So I'm sorry if my empathy cup isn't running over for people who work at the home office.
Well thanks for the drama but that is NOT the case. The news said yesterday they delivered pizza to the home office. Who was that for? The ghost of photographers passed? The news also stated the parking lot was full of employees cars but nobody would come to the door.
And FYI there is/was customer service. I got a call from them myself. A customer complained because I wouldn't let them buy 2 AOs.
OI is still there too. I' emailed back and forth with her before
I left my studio on Monday.
I agree they don't have the staff they once did but rest assured they DO have that place staffed. They just don't want to deal with anyone. Them ignoring us does not equal them not being there.
I think anyone who thinks the WiLife cameras are a joke needs to go ahead and steal. Lets see how that works out for you when they review the cameras .
I bet the people at the home office are sitting around, eating pizza and watching the WiLife cameras. Anyone who makes the mistake of stealing will be caught.
I just got off the phone with Blue Cross Blue Shield. They have temporary insurance for 1-11 months of coverage starting below $100 per month.You can get coverage today!
Do exactly what they are paying you to do..... NOTHING!
Yeah but watch them! As I understand they have a freeze on hiring FT employees. They'll tell you will be getting 35+ hours but you will not get any benefits OR they will tell you that you'll get hours but never give them to you.
I've heard too many stories from past and present Lifetouch associates that sound exactly like what we experienced at CPI.
I guess if you're desperate it would be a good filler between jobs.
I'm sure it was the Walmart where the CPI employee was showcased. The offer was probably for that employee.
Honestly,I'd rather starve than work for Walmart! I was very fortunate to have worked in a Walmart where the associates and managers were fantastic. However, not one person who worked there had anything nice to say about working for that the company. I certainly don't want to go from one messed up situation to another.
Tonight at midnight our insurance is gone. There will be no COBRA because CPI is not maintaining an insurance plan.
I think it is those goons CPI hired to sell PSC cards and book appointments.
He's not much of a man....spends his time tormenting a bunch of women. And yet he tries to act as if we are the ones who are troubled!?
LOL it took me a minute ........reamed would have
been an improvement to what they did to us!
Normally when somebody does this to me I at least
get dinner or a kiss. I don't ever recall anyone
throwing a pizza party to celebrate it though. LOL
Right!? Some of us were still out in the trenches trying to clean up their big fat mess and they were having a pizza party at the home office? Well isn't that special!
How the DMs handled this is very telling! They didn't give a blank about their employees. The DMs that cared are long gone!
I hope you do get your bonus added to your check! I seriously doubt that the US side of CPI will see it.
Can you believe my pathetic excuse of a DM still has not called her associates to tell them the company is finished? How wrong is that!!?
I went into my host store today and got all my undelivered portraits in order. I also cleaned the place up. I think it would have been wrong to leave the host store holding the bag. That just isn't how I roll!
I may not have a job but I do still have dignity! I will not stoop to treating people the way CPI treated us.