Trackers Earth Reviews

-coordinators all preferred to be instructors and will come in mid camp and change your lesson plans to what they would have done. This lead to some very upset kids. -this place operates more like a cult than work. You start out with a required week of camping as training and bonding, then throughout the summer they'll dangle the prospect of long term employment in front of your team. Very few people get kept on and if they are it's one weekend a month. The coordinators are the only people who actually stay on. -You're hired less on experience and more what clique you fit into. -Camps are very expensive but all instructors are paid minimum wage. Considering that the infrastructure of the camp is barebones and mostly DIY with field trips to public land, I'm not sure where most of the money goes but the Tracker's owner just bought a very large house near Mount Hood. -you don't fill out your own timesheets. Your coordinator will and you're capped at about 6 hours of overtime a week. You're expected to work beyond this and stay for after camp meetings and come up with lessons on the weekends. 4 people in my crew of 12 burnt out and quit by the end of the summer.

The upper management is toxic, manipulative, and abusive. Within the outdoor education community, it is well known that Trackers has a history of racism, cultural appropriation, and toxic masculinity. When addressing these issues with management, staff are ignored, ridiculed (called "snowflakes"), and yelled at. There are countless stories of staff trauma and abuse at Trackers. Below is a list of some of the things management has told full time staff to do. Write incident reports on staff behaviors that occurred during private interactions outside of work hours. Lie to staff regarding work availability and scheduling. Don't fire staff. Stop giving them work and make them uncomfortable until they quit. When staff were fired, some of them were told not to try collecting unemployment. Share private information about other staff shared in personal conversations. Lie to staff regarding pay. Drive vehicles they were not licensed to drive. Drive buses and vehicles with recorded safety and maintenance issues. Conduct programs at or harvest from parks the company did not have proper permits for. These directions were given in manipulative ways. Many full time staff did not know that they were being told to do unethical or illegal things. If there were ever any repercussions, full blame fell on the staff. Management took no responsibility and often claimed they were unaware these things were happening.