Great games and guest experience, but poor upper management and burnout culture - General Manager The Escape Game Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The guest experience is top-notch, and the games are genuinely fun to run. The frontline team is passionate and works hard to create memorable experiences.

Cons

Upper management in operations prioritizes cost-cutting over employee well-being, leading to constant understaffing and burnout. Managers are required to work a minimum of 45 hours per week (GMs 50+), with little regard for work-life balance. There’s constant pressure to stay late or send staff home early, reinforcing a culture that rewards sacrificing personal time. New games are rushed into production, and when they inevitably break down, it’s left to managers to figure it out with little support. High turnover is a growing issue, yet leadership seems unwilling to acknowledge or address the root causes.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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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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