Not a Good Place to Work - Anonymous employee Kidsborough Employee Review

1.0
15 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay meets or exceeds the industry standard.

Cons

The people in charge of Kidsborough don't know how to manage staff. While I was working there, the site coordinators absolutely hated it. It seemed like everyone was looking for a way out because upper management mistreated the staff. They didn't honor verbal promises they made, would micromanage their staff and showed little to no appreciation for the hard work they put in. The site coordinators tended to have backgrounds in child development and education, while upper management had backgrounds in business and computer science. Despite this, upper management ignored all suggestions for changing or improving program that their site coordinators had because their model was a "proven success." Since Kidsborough did not do any kind of program assessment, and had not even identified goals for program outcomes, the "proven success" could only mean profit. I had come from a non-profit background, and was prepared for some change when making the change to working for a for-profit, but I was stunned at how different the culture was here. Upper management really gave an impression of caring more about money than the families served.

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5.0
2 July 2024
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Pros

I enjoyed my time working here. If you love working in the education field, this is a great place to work.

Cons

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1.0
10 Mar 2025
Recommend
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Pros

They pay well for the field. Kids and ground-level staff are generally a pleasure to work with.

Cons

Consistently understaffed and undertrained because administration actively resists paying for quality training and retaining experienced staff. Making staff drive all over the state to compensate for staffing and training failures leads to incredibly high burnout and turnover. Constantly disorganized and slow to respond (if you even get a response!) because staffing failures means admins are doing group leader work instead of leading the company. All admins are inexperienced anywhere outside of Kidsborough, creating a pervasive myopic "that's how we've always done things" attitude that stifles growth and creativity. Profoundly demoralizing environment for those not in the "in crowd" with the owner and her selected yes-admins. Running child-care as a for-profit venture so the owner can enjoy her second house in Maine should make all the staff look askance at the times that the company has come down on them about wanting staff raises or program supplies. Truly the only way to succeed here is to be prepared to work with no support from administration and cover your own site.

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