Not what I signed up for - Front Desk Staff and Instructor Hub Climbing Employee Review

1.0
30 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Some coworkers were really hard working and made work fun -Free climbing if you work over a certain number of hours per month -They are pretty flexible with scheduling if you have another job or other commitments as long as you give them specific days or hours of availability

Cons

I used to love working here, but after a change in management, it felt as if the front desk staff weren't supported in the same way. There were too many changes happening all at once and the desk staff were never consulted or advocated for. Employee reviews (which I was told was linked to our hourly wages and potential raises) used to happen every 6 months, but after a change in management, the staff no longer got employee reviews and therefore stopped receiving raises. Working at Hub became overwhelming because of the new paperwork and changes to the job that seemed to occur almost weekly. Weekend shifts were a lot busier than weekday shifts and some weekend shifts even felt like a completely different job. Many shifts were understaffed or left as unscheduled. As a result, the line-ups at the desk would become super congested and customers would have long wait times leading them to lash out at the desk staff. It seemed as though many of my coworkers were burnt out and would start decreasing their hours of availability due being over-scheduled. The staff turn-over rate is also extremely high due to many of my coworkers feeling dissatisfied with the job. Poor communication between upper management team and staff members. Some changes were communicated the day of and were effective immediately. Many changes happened during my time working with Hub and many of these changes were made known to staff super last minute, sometimes with members being made aware of changes before the staff were notified. It seems to me the upper management did not care enough about their staff to let them know of changes in a timely manner. There were many inconsistencies in training and assessing staff members. Some staff were assessed on their ability to perform safe and comprehensive orientations, while others were not. Some staff had taken ladder training, while others had not. Some staff took coaching courses and were assessed, while others were not. From my experience, these inconsistencies created friction between staff members because of the extra workload that some staff had to take on while others did not. It seemed as though there was no real system for training or assessments which was pretty annoying. Along with the inconsistencies in staff trainings and assessments, there were also inconsistencies within youth programming. It is advertised by Hub that no climbing experience is necessary to apply to the position of front desk staff. If you are hired as front desk staff, you could also potentially be put into an instructor position with absolutely no climbing experience since there was a lack of coaches at Hub. It seemed to me that the Hub just wanted to take on friendly faces and bubbly personalities instead of building a climbing community, improving their youth climbers' abilities or improving their youth program offerings. In my opinion, some of my coworkers who were coaching should not have been coaching due to their lack of experience in climbing. Youth climbers who were signed up for the same program did not receive the same level of expertise depending on the coach they were paired with due to the lack of climbing experience from some of the coaches. Coaching pay was similar among all coaching staff, and unfortunately coaches who went above and beyond were not properly compensated.

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Cons

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