No Honor. - Swim Instructor Life Time Employee Review

1.0
Feb 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent Gym membership. You get access to a top-notch, state of the art gym; with one of the best aquatic facilities you can find. Making friends at the TM level is easy.

Cons

Company offers insanely high pay for the work you're doing, but don't believe a word of it. As a swim instructor, you are supposed to be paid even if your client doesn't show up (to help cover your time, and gas you spent to get here); well, that never happened. In the average day, only about a 1/2 - 2/3 of the clients show up, most are families where their child has a game or activity that day. So, you miss out on a lot of the pay that you were supposed to be given. DH's take credit for your hard work, and don't give you any raises or added benefits. You can't request off for a day you have swim lessons more than once every three months, even if you find a replacement. The company is a joke, when you consider how they treat you.

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5.0
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Cons

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Life Time Response
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3.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Members are great and free membership is a perk. Coworkers are supportive.

Cons

You will be micromanaged to death, whether you have three weeks of experience or 20 years. Policies are vague. Communication with leadership is poor. You can be a strong, experienced performer and have very few classes, or brand new and get 8 a week. There appears to be no logic or strategy to anything that happens.

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