- Unsalaried substitutes get paid more which is frustrating. Before-tax, you earn $211 a day, other substitutes earn between $250-350 (from experience meeting other subs)
- You can only use sick days if you've been employed for 90 DAYS. If you get sick before that time, you need to use PTO (if you have it) or not get paid. Absolutely insane and ridiculous, especially working in schools.
- You can only earn up to three PTO days (24 hours)
- The material taught in training rarely works at the schools you get placed in: schools and their students can have challenges/difficulties that can't be solved with what we're trained on.
- Have to commute up to an hour and if an assignment is up to 59 minutes away you need to accept it or not get paid. You could also have over an hour commute home. The commute should be capped at 30 minutes, especially with gas prices + traffic.
- Some people are still doing day-to-day subbing after a month, even though the goal is for long-term placements
- Some substitutes have to work a full 8 hours while others don't. You have to get lucky with your assignment/school if you want a work-life balance.
- You'll agree to an assignment, then get to the school and they put you in a different class/subject.
- Arriving within the time frame provided by Scoot to find out that you have over 30 min to an hour to kill before school begins. Arrival times need to be updated for some schools.
MOST IMPORTANT: the system to get an assignment is frustrating. If you don't get one the day before, you need to be awake by 6am to press "ready to work" in the Scoot app and wait for a phone call between that time and 6:30am. If you don't get an assignment, you could STILL get called after 6:30am, up until 7:30am. I fully believe that substitutes don't need to call in, we should be contacted. Schools don't usually open until 8-9am, why do we need to be up, awake, and "dressed" by 6am? Sleep, who?
