Pros
The kids and families you work with are amazing and it is such rewarding work. They do employee of the month programs which are a bit biased but still fun. They do company outings and family parties often to help you all bond.
Cons
They DO NOT promote from within. They hire outsiders for higher ranking jobs and don’t promote experienced coaches even when they are promised the promotion. They constantly change pay rate for certain events and will not give you a straight up rate that you get paid for camps. They have one adult alone with 20 kids for camps and you only get paid maybe $8 an hour if youre lucky. They expect you to work holidays and have given us the excuse that corporate made them stay open for holidays, I later found out they had the option to close and give us the day off but they chose to lie about it. They cut alot of corners with staffing and would have the minimum amount possible to save money but management was then buying new cars for themselves so something seemed a little off. They would understaff a class and if there were multiple kids fighting, management would blame the coach and we would get talked to on how we could handle it better when many times it was impossible to handle several groups of children arguing at one time. Taking off was very difficult even if given advanced notice. At one point we were told that even if we were severely ill or injured we would still have to come in if someone couldnt cover for us. The boss was friends with some of the employees and gave those employees alot of slack on chores and bad behavior, but would be hard on those he didnt know as well. There were alot of unspoken expectations.