Assistant Directors (ADs) are overworked, underpaid, scared into not taking their lunch breaks and constantly under pressure to fulfill a bewildering and Orwellian series of lists. Making 100 "merchant visits"a week was particularly stressful while I was also trying to manage all appointments, schedule and hire teachers, interview prospective candidates, manage all records and filing, teach students (I have no qualifications except a week long course I took with Huntington that actually never taught me how to teach, just how to "manage the center.") and run around doing all sorts of other inane tasks. I dreaded coming into work everyday only to work till nine at night or later. I worked at Huntington for two months. I lasted longer than anyone else in my training group who I was in contact with. As far as I can tell, ADs are extremely mistreated across the North East. One of the girls I knew who'd been at a center awhile was losing her hair from stress, another had developed an autoimmune disorder. Knowing the company, I am suspicious some of these positive reviews by teachers might have been commissioned by management. I know many of the hourly teachers I spoke with were disgruntled about pay and the dated material with which they worked.
