Seacamp Association Reviews

Cons. . . - insane work hours (can be up to 70+ hrs) with no breaks -salaried wages mean this averages to about $2.50/hr. That seems illegal? -tough living conditions: no A/C, tiny kitchen, mandatory meals or on property nights, no on site laundry necessitating a huge time suck on your day off -very little time off (usually one day a week) is spent on laundry and professional development -as an environmental education center, makes no effort to change harmful and unsustainable practices -pretty terrible food; those trying to be healthy or meat-less have no hope, and when you're teaching there's no time to prepare or eat your own food -all of the above would be tolerable if it weren't for the way staff are seen/treated by mgmt. Blood, sweat, and tears are shed for Seacamp and program staff are treated like the dirt beneath mgmt's feet. Totally worthless, totally expendable, not worth common courtesy or human decency. Failure to complete homework is accompanied with threats of docking your pay. Any way you may try and negotiate your contract ends with the loss of a reference. If you happen to hurt leadership's personal feelings, they find a way to unjustly fire you. These are all real life examples I saw in my five months of working there, and the list goes on and on. There is something very wrong happening within Seacamp and its sad to see one person after another get abused and beaten down to the point where they feel like giving up on the science field entirely. Don't let Seacamp take that from you. Find another job. It's not worth it.

I have never work at a more unprofessional place. The management team was a total nightmare to work with and they literally treated their employees like slaves. I worked there during their summer camp program and have never worked harder at a job I hated. During our month of staff training, that we had before the campers arrived, (which they're so proud of and gloat about all the time) they taught us more about how not to get Seacamp sued than actually how to work as a good camp councilor. Seacamp puts more effort into covering their butts from lawsuits than they even come close to putting into making the camp an awesome time for campers to learn about the ocean and enjoy the Florida Keys. The education level of the marine science camp is sub par at best and it leaves tons of pressure on the science instructors that they hire and just throw into the positions with hardly any preparations. There's no wifi on property and the only way to access it is to spend your minimal time off sitting in a bar that has free wifi. I would have quit on my second day if I could have but unfortunately they trick us into a verbal contract that doesn't specifically spell out this: if you quit or get fired before your contract ends you have to pay Seacamp back for the money that they spent on certifying you in first aid, lifeguarding, rescue diver, ect. which adds up to be somewhere around $3000. When I only got paid $1450 for the entire summer working from 7am-11pm in the hot sun with no air conditioning everyday, I was not about to pay Seacamp for anything.