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Steer clear - awful working environment - Lead Educator Journey Early Learning Employee Review

1.0
13 May 2024
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Pros

Journey Early Learning Banyo is a beautiful, smaller centre which up until recently had an educator team that existed as a second family for each other.

Cons

The current manager at Journey Early Learning Banyo (March 2024) is running the centre into the ground. She is completely disengaged from the educators, children and families. She bullies the staff and only interacts with them to berate them or to order them around in how to set up and run their room. She accused the educator team of being a "clique" - because we are friends outside of work. She hired lazy, negligent educators and refused to listen to anyone's feedback surrounding them. She also hired her best friend onto the management team from another Journey centre rather than offer the Educational Leader role to long-time lead educators with a documented desire to upskill into the position.

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1.0
18 Dec 2025
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Pros

The children are the best part and some educators genuinely care

Cons

Chronic understaffing and unrealistic expectations lead to burnout. Leadership is inconsistent, reactive, and often absent when support is needed. Culture feels blame-focused, with heavy micromanagement and constant scrutiny. Communication changes week to week with little clarity or follow-through. High turnover creates instability, extra workload, and poor continuity of care. Professional wellbeing is talked about, but not genuinely protected in practice. Gaslighting culture: concerns were minimised, reframed, or denied until staff questioned their own judgement. Issues were often spun as “your perception” rather than addressed as real operational problems. When mistakes happened, leadership shifted the narrative instead of owning decisions and fixing systems. Staff were told expectations were “clear,” even when instructions changed constantly. Raising problems felt risky because the response was defensiveness, not support.

4.0
27 Jan 2026
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Pros

The efficiency of a small marketing team was great

Cons

The pay was a bit lower than the general level for an experienced digital marketing specialist.

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