Toxic Positivity Culture - Guide The Escape Game Employee Review

3.0
31 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Physically and mentally active. Supportive and friendly coworkers. Interacting with guests was enjoyable.

Cons

Undervalued, Underpaid, and unappreciated. Felt like you had to walk on eggshells when the general manager was in the building. Makes you feel like nothing you do is good enough. Don't get paid enough for the amount of work and value that the employees bring to the table. They refuse to see that uptight management is the problem. And they wonder why they are constantly understaffed. They force you to use only positive vocabulary and if you use it incorrectly then you get in trouble. You have to memorize things and spit them back out at a moment's notice. The lack of communication is blamed on you. The mentality of the workers becomes to keep your head down and mouth shut. If they tell you to do something then you are expected to say, "Yes" and do it without any response as to why you were doing it the other way, to begin with. You don't get any PTO even if you work full time. If you work full time then the job is your life. This is a work to attempt to live, job. It doesn't pay enough to live off of. Some employees worked multiple jobs. The hours, depending on your shift, make a work/life balance impossible and nonexistent.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

So much fun and good career opportunities! Good values

Cons

You to be really engaged. Late nights sometimes.

2.0
2 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The team itself and the coworkers were rad. Everyone is positive and supportive but not in a toxic positive way.

Cons

--its really bizarre policy to make your plus ones pay for the game...on training games. And do you get paid while training on a game? Nope. Ive never seen any other escape room operate that way and it came off so greedy that friends I brought almost questioned me working there. -very passive aggressive store management. Yes its important to have professionalism but management will get on you for petty small things that made no difference to the guest experience. They also dont seem to be familiar with workers laws in the location theyre managing. --starting out they'll send you home early rather than taking time to train you on everything. If its a tiny bit slow, you get cut. This makes pay incredibly unstable and the pay was already abysmal for the area. --I didnt mind company values at first but it rapidly becomes clear that their generosity and integrity values are only for guests, not for employees. In fact they'll be incredibly stingy towards you. --once your hours stop getting cut, if you've stayed in the trenches long enough, now they suddenly put you on for 11 hour shifts. And schedule requests are often ignored. --if I ever end up rich I want to buy the company out and run it better out of sheer spite.

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