Scouting America reviews

Very little help from management. You'll work extremely long hours especially during fall recruitment. They will lure you in by telling you that you make your own schedule and that it's very flexible but don't get it twisted, nothing is what seems at first. Business wise, the ship is sinking. The business model is broken and management is so busy trying to save their own cushy jobs, that they won't listen to any innovation. They will force you to milk your donors and you will end up looking like the leech in the end. If you are married or have a life in general, don't take this job. I repeat, don't do it! I read the reviews after handing in my two week notice to my last job and trust me, I was sick for a week. They basically will have you working a 6 figure job for 35-38k a year. They are passive aggressive and very condescending. If you don't take heed to this advice, like me, you'll end up leaving a similar review.

Where do I begin? Let's start with work-life balance. There is none. The bosses pretend to care, but at the end of the day they don't. If you work in a council that is run a lot of Mormons, you'll quickly find that they just don't get it. Most of their wives are homemakers, and don't work. They have no sympathy or understanding of a dual-income household. As such they work 100 hours a week and expect you to do the same. In the interview they'll tell you it's cyclical with breaks, but it's not. Spring is FOS. Summer is running summer camp. Fall is nothing but recruitment. Which brings me to my next point... Boy Scouts is a tough sell. It's a bigoted and old fashioned organization that refuses to join the 21st-century. People don't want to sign their kid up for scouting because it has a bad social stigma. Not only do you register to participate in a movement that excludes gays and people that don't believe in God, you're registering your kid in a movement that doesn't allow boys to be boys. No more water balloons? Come on. Management all the way up to the Chief Scout Executive are all internal hires. There is no breath of fresh air. There is no new direction. The end result is a good old boys' club. The organization is run by a bunch of balding, old, white LDS men that don't know a hashtag from a dog-tag. They're out of touch with reality and with kids - and it's evident. Changes to programming are made without consulting the people in the filed that implement the program: mostly your adult volunteers. These people then come and complain to you like you had anything to do with it. You're expected to constantly be available to catch crap in both directions: from the volunteers on up and from management. Heaven forbid you don't answer your cell phone on a Thursday night at 10pm. You'd think I worked for the CIA or as a trauma surgeon. It's ridiculous. Again, can't emphasize it enough - there is NO work-life balance. They'll tell you, "If you're out late, you can come in a little later in the morning." No. No you can't. Not when there are meetings and trainings scheduled for 6:30am over an hour away. You're expected to drive your own vehicle. You easily clock over 50,000 miles in your car. If you're in a council lucky enough that gives you an auto stipend PLUS mileage, you're doing alright. Most don't. Even then, when you get reimbursed at less than the IRS recommendation, you're just happy to get your expense report paid back to you. Since the organization only promotes from within, pursuing your education to better yourself is out of the question. Funny, isn't it? After all, it is Boy Scouts. It is about bettering oneself. You're allowed to go to school, but it can't interfere with work. Okay, that's fair. In fact, I think EVERY employer says that. It's fair... BUT... when you're expected to be at a 7am breakfast meeting with volunteers, sit in the office then from 9-5, and then hit up a training or troop meeting or something at 6:30 --- Monday thru Saturday, when can you expect to go to school? Don't take the job unless you enjoy being married to work. You'll work Monday thru Saturday anywhere from 75-100 hours/week. You'll be pestered by dweeby (well some are just big time LOSER) volunteers at all hours of the day and every time you walk into a coffee shop. There is no work-life balance, and there is no regard for family. It doesn't exist.