The Worst Boss I've Ever Had! - Anonymous employee DREAM Employee Review

2.0
Feb 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great mission. Very rewarding work if you are passionate about mentoring inner city youth.

Cons

Where do I begin? Every decision made by supervisors is driven by data. The staff that works directly with the community has no voice. My boss was there for the paycheck. He was lazy, sexist, and did not care about the kids. No one took him seriously and everyones work ethic continued to dwindle as we watched him get away with nonsense. At one point he told our staff that men were providers and women should stay at home and do nothing. When I tried to remind him that most of his staff were young women, he just talked over me. After that episode it was over for all of us. Even though everyone showed up for work everyday they were all somewhere else.

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5.0
Jul 11, 2025
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Pros

Enthusiastic staff, gifted kids, leadership open to improvements/always changing, lots of support, lax schedule

Cons

Punishment/disciplinary methods are supposed to be consistent by book but in practice every educator has their own -and very different- method. Kind of confusing for both kids and staff. Don't know if this is related but there's definitely a kid favoritism/teacher's pet energy going on. One actual con is that the behavioral and competence range is HUGE and it's kind of dismissed. Some kids are extremely gifted and hardworking, others cause problems everyday and are evidently behind. Doesn't only cause tensions between the kids but is also hard to manage - makes the whole "we are family" method feel like we're disregarding the "advanced" kids. Need more than just having more educators/coaches in the room to help out with these kids. These are problems in any school but ones I feel like the school should have addressed with all it's resources

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