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Originally Posted by schwarz
I have been at LaHacienda Recreation center for over three years. We are supposed to have a rec assistant staff of 16, currently we have 10 with no new hires in site. Every day in my work emails are requests from multiple other centers listing all their shiffs that need coverage. Our manager has personally had to work shifts due to being short staffed. There recently was a big meeting with all the big wigs trying to figure out how to attract staff, especially at $10 an hour, the current pay rate, and also address employee retention.
Managers work normally Monday-Friday 8-5 and certainly not all hours the centers are open. They have many responsibilities, checking id's at pools are not their priority. Sadly, the staffing issue is likely to continue for awhile, just as it is in most local businesses as you can confirm by the help wanted signs everywhere.
Again, if you see a specific problem at the pool, use the pool phone and call the center listed and we should be able to respond but the days of a full time pool monitor are over for now. Bob
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Thanks. But, my post was addressing the comment that every rec center is "short of staff". LaHacienda is a "regional" rec center. But, the majority of the pools are monitored by the "village" rec centers, not the regional rec centers. The village rec centers are operated by one employee, who monitors about 2-3 pools as well as other rec center activities. As I understand it, this has been the staffing level at every village rec center for at least the past 5 years. So, to say that every rec center is short of staff is not accurate, especially with respect to the thread topic of checking the pools for IDs. One employee is responsible to check IDs at about 2-3 pools, and that staff level has not changed.