Pros
Beautiful place to spend the summer, room and board included
Cons
First of all, you get paid like 30 cents an hour , which is fine on one hand because you get free room and board but on the other hand for how much campers pay for 2 weeks it’s atrocious. Senior leadership is really bad. A bunch of college aged girls who are really only there to hang out with each other. If you bring up an issue to them, they will just brush you off. For example, my friend (a counselor) had a camper who was barely eating and she was scared she had an eating disorder. Elizabeth Olvey, the one in charge of staff, brushed it off saying she’ll eat trading post, which she was not. This is just one example of them not trusting staff and caring for campers. Another example is during a free swim for the youngest campers, senior staff left only ONE life guard in charge while they all went to the offsite pool to swim, ignoring the fact that many of them are certified lifeguards. This definitely stressed the poor lone lifeguard after she expressed her concerns about this. It was non of their time off and yet they let the counselor stress alone. Senior staff were just really unprofessional in general. Terrible place to work for the summer. When you interview, they try and make it seem like they really care for staff and treat them well, but after working there for 6 weeks, you start to lose a lot of respect for them.