had my Mom's condo painted in August and I was told there would be 5 painters and it would take 2 eight hour days to complete the job. After day one, I got a call saying they were finished.
I looked at the walls and was surprised to see that they only did one coat and missed a lot of spots. They came back and when I went the next day, there was paint on the kitchen cupboards, 5 dining room chairs, the table, and the curtains.
I moved furniture out today and discovered paint on the carpet, dishwasher, and some unfinished places. It appears as though they purposely hid their mistakes.
I opened the bedroom curtains and found 3 big blobs of paint that was left to run and dry.
These painters did an extremely sloppy job and put no care or effort in their workmanship.
I will never use your company again and I will be posting this on multiple websites advising against using your company.

We have had them paint our house and it took them 3 months to complete it.They slept on my couch and ate my food and left us with a very bad job done.We had the warranty work done and now here we go again...awful job and so many damages like our brand new roof!! DO NOT USE STUDENT WORKS>>>>>>IT ill cost you lots of headaches and left ITH A JOB HALF DONE!!!!!!!

I worked for these guys in high school. Please don't blame the actual painters, they are totally out of the loop on the legal scam these guys run. Basically they get you to attend a meeting, and they make a big deal out of it, then you are hired. You receive no training whatsoever. The so called "manager" (a college student that knows next to nothing about painting) puts you onto a job site in the morning, then leaves you to do it with a meager budget of a few hours for you and one other person, who knows as little as you do about painting. The bottom line is, if anyone wants to make money here, do a mediocre, fast job and you might be lucky to make 9-10 an hour. That's how they prefer you to do it. And if you fall short of your budget, which is almost guaranteed if you're someone who prefers to do a good job, then expect less than minimum wage. Also, expect to embarrass yourself by trying to sell paint jobs door to door for no compensation, as that is part of the job as well. For payment, expect a personal cheque, with no pay stub, or very little information about your hours and deductions. So, to sum up, you're much better off getting a job with a small, reputable painting company, who is willing to train you and will pay you a real hourly wage. Or maybe even working at McDonalds for the summer (you'll make more money there).

Best of luck.

I cotracted Student Works Painting on Broadway West to do a job for me, and I was really disapointed with the result.

They came to my house at 8:00 am, right on the time we arranged, and I gave them instructions on how I wanted it painted.

My 1967 Chevy was in mint condition, until some neighbourhood punk keyed it. I thought I would let some college kids earn some money, so I called Student Works Painting.

They might be good at painting houses, but they suck at painting cars. They didn't even use real auto paint.

Be warned these are not the Auto Paint professionals I thought they were!

They mistreat their employees, plain and simple. My manager was completely full of herself, and kept screwing us over.

She kept under-quoting the jobs, and got pissed at us when we couldn't paint an entire house in 3-4 hours. She had very little painting experience herself, and always found flaws with everything you were doing. One time I was painting alongside her sister. Her sister told me to sand the old paint as lightly as possible so there would be less work. I did just that I got yelled at by my boss for being lazy and trying to half-*** the work. Way to give conflicting instructions. If our crew managed to finish the job on time, she would claim the work was too sloppy. If we did a meticulous job, she would flip up at us for taking too long. From what I've gathered most of their managing staff like to intimidate and put down their employees, so you never feel like you have any ground to argue with them.

You don't get lunch breaks, like any other normal business. They expect you to eat on the run as you're moving from site to site.

The canvasing is just pain stupid. 3-4 days out of the week we'd be knocking on doors looking for work. Very few people came back with leads, and most of us did not get paid for any of the time we spent canvasing. I don't mind distributing fliers, and I don't mind promoting door-to-door. I do however have a major problem doing it for free, especially when I'm supposed to be employed as a painter.

They don't provide any safety training, and tell you to supply your own protective equipment. Meanwhile they expect you to do **** that's just plain dangerous, like stand on top of a flimsy porch hood to paint the window above it. Should you get hurt on the job, I guarantee it, you'd be completely on your own.

The final straw for me was when they paid me for 1/3 of the hours I worked, claiming I didn't keep proper records. When I demanded my money (around $ 300.00) they told me to sue them.

I can't believe I gave up hours at my other job to work for these ********. Stay away from them like the plague. They will look every opportunity to not pay you for the hours you work.

I got gipped on my hours and on my cold calling bonuses. Apparently you are supposed to get $5 for each lead and $10 for each time they book an appointment. I got like half of those. I would never work for a dishonest employer again and I would never recomend anyone to work for them. If you don't keep track of your hours they will gip you. One of my coworkers was short $200 in one paycheque. My advice keep track of your hours and your leads.

I gave up my job with Parks Canada because I thought I would make more money, but it turns out that I only made just under $3,000 dollars with Student Works Painting. In June I made only $800. The manager promised me 10 or 12 hour days and working 5 days a week, but she had no jobs for me. When I came back to work she told me that there was $200,000 in jobs for the rest of the summer and this will never happen again. A couple of weeks later she has no work for me for a week and after that I get laid off. My advice -- work at Safeway or somewhere else because you will make more and will not have to put up with uncertainty. With Parks Canada I made at least $10,000 for the summer and I had constant employment.

There are ups and downs of student works painting. They are in no way related to "college works painting" which has a HORRIBLE rap sheet. My story is one of the downs. I am currently working for student works painting.. You are supposed to start painting houses in april-may. We didnt start our first house until July 28th. I am not a professional painter, but i am very good at it, yet she expects our whole crew to be professional painters, as if we have 15 years of painting experience. She will give us 30 hours to do a 40 hour job (which is reasonable), but when we are on our last gallon of paint, we give her a call, she says she will be there in 10 min with more paint, and 2 hours later she shows up with paint and we've been out for an hour and trying to find stuff to do. I do understand she is busy and trying to find us more work with getting estimates done, but when she says "i will be there in about 45 min" and shows up 4 HOURS LATER, thats not acceptable. (this all really happened, and ive only been painting for about 1 week so far) I was the first employee she hired and that was in March, we did canvasing for 3 months (WTF??) She said we would start painting on June 1st (which i was ok with, and thats why i accepted the job) Then the date we were supposed to start painting changed to June 12th, then June 30th, then July 18th, and finally July 28th. Trust me, it was very annoying. There were also the countless times we went canvasing and she was anywhere from 15-30 min late to meeting at the chosen area, and she made is seem like it was all of our faults and we had to go canvasing for an extra period of time. (usually the amount of time she was late) If you are offered a job from student works painting, DO NOT DO IT if the branch manager seems anything like this. The only reason ive stuck around is because the economy is tough right now and i need to pay for my wedding thats a month away. If your branch manager pulls any of this crap, demand an hourly wage (instead of the piecework) and they will either a) give you your demands or b) deny your demands, and if you quit, and they dont replace you, they will risk being sued by student works for jobs not getting done so they will definately pay you what you ask.