Pros
Staff and admin at the schools are usually welcoming and professional. If you like working with early childhood, that is a positive.
Cons
Toxic, passive aggressive management. Extremely disorganized onboarding process. Management has unsuccessfully attempted to create a professional onboarding system and policies. Their “system” is comically over complicated, unprofessional, and wastes large amounts of time for the new employees. Hourly pay is awful and not competitive. Instead of properly paying for training, new hires are given a paltry $150 stipend for the chaotic and mind numbingly long, disorganized onboarding period. The managers and written policies contradict themselves frequently. It’s common to get different information or direction from each manager. Many policy related documents available to new hires and employees are outdated and contradictory. While it’s quite a smart business idea, it’s very apparent that the people running it have very little business sense. They desperately need help from corporate consultants who are competent in organization and professionalism. SubHub feels very small town and not in a charming way. SubHub substitute teachers are treated like low wage, unintelligent employees, regardless of their educational and professional background. Very low pay, not competitive with actual schools. Between the awful pay, toxic management and lack of organization, it’s not worth it. If you are someone looking to get out of the house a couple days a week, you enjoy teaching early childhood and the money is irrelevant, then you might have a good experience with SubHub, but you’d be better off just volunteering or getting a part time job directly at a school.
