Brightside Academy reviews

2.5

39% would recommend to a friend

(206 total reviews)

Jack Safer

43% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Brightside Academy has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 206 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Brightside Academy employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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206 reviews
1.0
Nov 27, 2018

To Jack Safer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I want to put down pros, but there are actually none that I can think of. The company does give you a small paycheck to where you can "survive" in poverty. It's a joke that the company hasn't seen a raise since 2013-2014. If you were to look at their turnover rate, your mouth would drop!

Cons

Jack Safer himself and Martin Handler These men took over the company a few years back and promised to make many changes that haven't even been close to being true. They have a background in nursing homes, not childcare and even if you look up their reviews for their nursing homes, they are even as bad as their newly acquired childcare facility. There are academies in the Pittsburgh area that don't even have enough staff to stay open without the help of overworked and underpaid management in this area. The starting wages for a teacher with their bachelors is $11 a hr and the benefits are extremely expensive and useless. There are times that the "HR" department doesn't even return your calls or act like they care for you as they're all brainwashed into being scared of their jobs and truly just don't care for the workers aka peasants. There have been issues brought to Avery also who oversees the company and he continues to let the BS happen and let Jack and Martin destroy what education is left within the company.

3.0
Jan 18, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked at BSA for 3 years. The NY regional team, under Mrs. Penny Swift's leadership was awesome!!!!!!! We were a family and with the ups and downs, the multiple projects and the everyday craziness at the end of the day, I went home happy. I was confident that we were working for the children, we were trying to improve our process to become more successful and a better environment for children. It was not easy, some teaching staff might disagree but with all the challenges we were facing we were headed the right direction.

Cons

I worked long hours and as a salary employee I didn't receive OT pay, I asked a few times for pay raise but they were denied, however, I believed the previous regional team, under Penny Swift's leadership was driven to make a positive change. However, once Mr. Handler took over NY everything changed, he constantly yelled at the staff, believed that everything was his way and if didn't work then we could back to what was proven to work. He is very nasty and you could tell things changed when great employees, not only from NY but corporate started resigning. All Mr. Handler care is about the money, not the children nor the staff.

1.0
Jun 11, 2013

WORST.COMPANY.TO.WORK.FOR

Recommend
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Pros

There isn't one that I can think of. Oh but wait if you have a child and fall into their awful rules you may or MAY NOT get free childcare

Cons

I spent 4 and half years with this company. And it turned out to be a total waste. Not too mention the discrimanation I experienced in this job. Supervisors that treated their employees like garbage. Blatent favoritism. They should be ashamed of themselves in the corporate office. Senior management watched as supervisors treated their employees horribly because THEY did not want to deal with having to hire new staff. That sad part is if management took the time to see that they had great workers and fire the supervisors that were awful that company might have a chance. Not too mention a CEO who did not know a single person's name in there. I have never ever in my life seen anything like it. Backstabbing at it's finest. And to make matters worse when you do a good job you get a lot more work dumped on you on top of being talked about and being disrepected. That place is a total joke.

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