Great experience, great people - Instructor Pali Institute Employee Review

Many coworkers are amazing. Free housing. Most of your meals are provided. The people are the only reason so many people stay as long as they do- you'll probably meet lifelong friends here.

A very high turnover rate because people are absolutely worked to the bone. If you are in cabin, you only get 1.5 hours off a day. You're literally working 22.5 hours a day, on call for any issues in the cabin. The lack of time off and staff support is abysmal. Leadership is very cliquey and not approachable. Bed bugs are common in the cabins. So much of this job is behavior management of the kids. If you planned on this role focusing on outdoor education, it hardly does. So many people here lose their spark because there is simply no work-life balance. Also, some very weird people work here, and even with HR complaints against them, they are still employed because Pali needs the high staff numbers to have enough people to put in cabin. This company is very much focused on profits first. Never met the CEO during the season. Talked to the director Emily maybe twice. Very disconnected and doesn't feel like there's a purpose to working here besides making the company as much money as possible.

Coworkers are the main good thing. They are great and most of the time the leadership is absent so there is no oversight whatsoever. You can really do what you want until leadership has a bad day and decides to go for you.

Leadership is unqualified and bad at managing other adults. Teaching about climate change or even mentioning you have LGBT parents is reprimanded bc Pali is terrified of the conservative press and panders to religious schools. It took a dozen complaints and an ultimatum from female staff to get a serial sex pest fired. It took multiple hostile confrontations and threatened brawls to get an unhinged man fired. They will never try to improve you as an educator, since your job is primarily babysitting. I was observed teaching once in 9 months. They either underhire and overwork you horribly or overhire and give you $300 a week for half pay. They will promote you if you manage to get into the pants of a leadership member and promote based on social factors instead of qualifications.