the ymca a great place to work and play - Supervisor of Maintenance The Y (YMCA) Employee Review

4.0
Sep 7, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

there is alot of job security, possible chances for advancement and skilled work and professional advancements. opportunities and continued education within the ymca family. lots of places to relocate they are a world wide company a wide variety of culture. They are very family orienented, and treat you like you a member of their family. they have an excellent benefit package including but not limited to y memberships and swim lessons after school programs included for all imediate family members. they truly care about their employees and their families. they stress family with core values and building strong communities and families.

Cons

being on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week sometimes they have unreal expectations of work time. Things have to be completed on an unreal time table, based on a non profit organization a lot of funds saleries and programs are based on funds donated or raised by fund raisers or local communites. Needs to allow more communications within the board members and the staff of the ymca. They need more employee morale, they need to draw in the leadership programs more. their fairness and respect need a little more work for the employees. and they need to give dept heads more leway with their employees.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

There was staff and leadership

Cons

To much workload for no pay

3.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The team members/ coworkers and administrator (team lead) that you work with on a day-to-day basis are the ones who will make or break the experience. Obviously working with children, one must have patience, be flexible, creative - there are some days that test all of those skills! lol! But when you have a great teaching team to work with, your program can run like a well-oiled machine. I loved the time I had working with this program!

Cons

The pay is very low, I do understand with the YMCA being a non-profit, but at the same time when a position is responsible for young children, the pay should be higher than a fast-food chain, to attract and keep higher caliber staffing. - If you already work at a school, it's not a bad gig to make some extra money for coming in a few hours early or a few late. But if you are driving more than 5min, to work 2-3 hours for a ridiculously low rate I would say pass. I was not doing this for the money - I truly loved my coworkers and the kids that attended my school. Unfortunately, some of the other cons are: poor communication (very poor), lack of SOP's when it comes to how teachers should be handling situations for their own personal safety and unrealistic expectations (of us to do marketing, surveys collecting demographics, and pushing for financial donations). The last few things listed is what ended up driving me to resign.

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