AVOID TERRIBLE OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT - Lifeguard/Summer Scheme Let's Go Hydro Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Other staff are friendly since your all on the same sinking ship.

Cons

Terrible Management If you enjoy never being paid on time then this is the place for you or never being paid the right amount HR is a joke and refuse to pay you the right amount so you could be left waiting months to get what your owed from them. The Owner refuses to pay above minimum wage this is especially frustrating for lifeguards when the going rate at any other leisure centre would be around £11PH. The treatment of Lifeguards on site is ridiculous you will be made to stand on top of freezing inflatables for over 4 hours at a time dealing with borderline hypothermia, On the rare hot day as well you will be in the same situation not being given water or allowed to top up on sun cream in my first year working here I had such severe burns I couldn't return to work for 2 weeks. Pete Boyle the Owner is the worse person I have ever worked with serious case of short man syndrome about him he goes around verbally abusing all of his workers until the point of tears I have watched Pete Boyle scream at 17 year old girls until they were in tears out of boredom or some sort of power trip. I have done shifts in the wetsuit barn and it is not much better often understaffed and if you are working a jaws shift expect to be on until 1am and on at 9pm the next morning the barn is also infested with Rats so watch your step. Health and Safety is often disregarded at the fate of the customer I have been on shift when sections of the park have came loose or floated away from the rest of the section while customers have been on them due to the poor health and safety standards all around. When customers get injured an often event the management cares more about putting a waiver in their hand rather than proper care. The accomodation is also to poor standards I have heard horror stories of mice and rats living in the accomodation in the forest not surprising really but would AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Could be fun if you weren’t treated so horribly. The previous review which states there is good training is most likely written by management because there is no/little training.

Cons

Where to start… Number one con which everything stems from is how horrible the owner is. He will randomly come down and start screaming at staff for whatever reason he decides that day. Quite often he gets angry for there being no customers and decides to blame staff when in reality he has driven all of the customers away himself. Every single staff member who has ever worked at the cable park refuses to come back almost entirely because of how they have been treated by Pete Boyle. Staff turnover is huge due to him being so horrible. Safety is a second thought.. until something goes wrong and then Pete will blame the staff for not having the safety measures implemented. Regardless if they have been brought up to management before or not. He will do anything to save himself money and take money from his customers.

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