As a 17 year old employee of Saf-T-Swim I can assure you that we do not have any sort of fun ""Swimming all year and still getting paid"" if thats what they are calling our meager pay of 9 dollars an hour which translates to 4.50 for the half an hour spent with a lesson. Almost every instructor hates there job there and the 4 dollars 50 cents we are getting to deal with the kids(especially the ones that scream and cry and scratch) is not enough incentive for us to care at all. It isnt our business so we truthfully wouldnt care if it failed miserably. They treat there staff miserably. When we close the pool due to throw up, do you think we enjoy that? We get to get out of a lesson? We dont we actually dont get paid that gets deducted at the end of the day. And its the same when some inconsiderate parents just decided not to show up without calling ahead. We are there not getting paid. Managers are bribed with trips to Las Vegas and Jamaica if they keep an eye on our pay rolls cutting hours where ever possible or when we arnt there. We dont use a punch in system so our managers are big fan of white out changing the hours we put down at the end of the week. Part of the problem is that Saf-t-Swim trains there staff themselves so they are able to hire people who have not taken the WSI(water saftey instructor) course. This means many people walk in off the street with no swimming back ground what so ever. All of this is part of the reason I am choosing to leave Saf-t-Swim. I am a lifeguard during the summer and and I am sick of the lack of experience of my co-workers. Kids who cant do the strokes themselves trying to teach them. They will come up to you and ask you how to teach them the stroke at the end of the day so they cant eacht he kids. This is my favorite part. One Session cost $216 dollars divided by 6 lessons i $36 dollars each lesson. Subtract the $4.50 we make for the lesson. $31.5 per lesson in the pool. That doesnt seem that impressive but when you multiply that number by the ten instructors they force to work at the same time in the pool and you have a pretty signifcant number. $315/per half an hour. On a monday afternoon we can easily break 2000. For what? mediocre swim lessons tought by a bunch of idiots.(there are a few exceptions) But Im done and I am extremley happy back to lifeguarding and I wont be returning in the September.
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