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Putting Edge has been the most fun and easy job ever.

Shift Leader

- Super easy job
- All you need to do is set up guests for the mini golf, that is, handling money and giving them a putter
- The "worst" it will ever get is customer complaining about company policies or not being okay with a 10 minute wait time, but it's never too intense. 
- People are here to have fun, so 99% of the time, everyone is in a great mood
- My manager is amazing, very helpful, polite and understanding
- The work environment is GREAT! everyone at my location is close in age (high school and college kids) so we are basically all friends rather than simply co-workers
- The only con is that shift supervisors have to close, and as this is an entertainment business, we usually close at midnight on weekends. But if you have a ride, its not a problem!


Party Host
- Party host was the 1st job I did under Putting Edge
- Management is very helpful and understanding and training is done very well. 
- Hosting parties was always very easy and fun. The guests arrive, they get separated into groups and go into the course for 45 minutes while you supervise. Then you serve pizza and drinks to the kids, and hand out tokens. Most the time you will do the chicken dance or some game with the kids, which is honestly kind of fun
- I have found that being nice, polite, attentive and prepared always guarantees a tip. Tips vary for each customer, but $10-25 from each party is almost a guarantee. In some occasions, you will get a customer who is extra generous and walk out with a tip $40-100 just from one party.  
- The party host shifts vary between 3-5 hours, depending on how many parties are booked that weekend. Perfect for any busy student who wants to come in to work a stress-free job for a few hours, make regular pay and also tips instead of working long tiring hours.

For being a fairly simple job, I really loved working there. The job itself was easy to learn and not very challenging, but the part you'll like the most about it is the people and the environment. The company has a really fun loving head office made of people that genuinely enjoy their job and are very personable and easy to talk too. I got to work with and was trained by the owners of the establishment, which is something you don't get from big, faceless companies and I really loved that aspect. On top of that they were fantastic people that really cared about their employees. We were encouraged to send fun emails to head office with the names of the birthday kids and requested music. The atmosphere is great for people-loving individuals. You get to work in an environment where people are there to play games and have a good time and that rubs off on you. You're not just a clerk, you're a party planner, a DJ, and a golf and video game enthusiast. Planning and supervising birthday parties can get a little hectic and stressful at times, especially if you're dealing with rambunctious kids and difficult parents, but for the most part the children were fun to work with and the parents are very nice and grateful. The only complaints I would have are the pay is minimum wage and there are no health benefits, but if you're a fun, energetic and helpful person that's good with kids you'll get great tips. I would recommend this job to everyone.

Retail customer service job where managing timelines for golfers experience was one of the largest focal points of each shift. Maintaining a steady flow of players on the course as well as aiding players in the arcade to ensure that each guest had a fun time with their Putting Edge experience was a daily duty for all staff.

Balancing the till at the beginning and end of each shift and personal responsibility for opening or closing of the store and ensuring all games and public areas were clean, working, and safe. Each day would consist of following up with party reservations and bookings, greeting all guests in the store with occasional upselling where guests were informed of deals and membership packages. Managing wait times and delegating tasks to other employees to balance time at the front of store with cleaning and break times.

Breaks were only given if guest flow was slow enough to allow, as management I would allow for coworkers to take break times and lunch at higher priority than myself. If shifts are busy and long I was able to judge when small windows would be allowed to give coworkers short breaks through long busy shifts without impacting guests experience.

A typical day here consists of doing till, redeeming arcade tickets for prizes, being a birthday party host and daily cleaning. However, hours are said to be based off our performance but in actuality they are based off of how the manager feels about you that week. There is a severe lack of communication going on. Typically if a problem arises that the manager takes issue with, you will have to find out from other staff or weeks after the fact and be confused as to why you have significantly less hours the next week. New "policies" are being added constantly regardless of if they make sense. It often seems as though there are making up rules as they go and not thinking them through causing lots of confusion and added stress on the employees. But will bend the rules to fit their own wants/needs. Though it is a fast paced environment it is now a highly stressful one due to management. Due to busy shifts you will usually not get a break, it's rare to get to a break at all during your shift. You are being constantly watched on the cameras from both the store manager and head office. Though you give them your availability they will continue to schedule you on days you have told them you cannot work. I would not recommend working here if you are looking for a part time job.

A regular day at putting edge is setting people up, redeeming prizes and the odd chance you’re fixing an arcade game. The only thing I learned here is that if you’re not considered to be a favourite good luck getting shifts that accommodate your lifestyle in anyway. Putting Edge management lacks in communication when it comes to things like guest service, polices, writes ups. Management seems to show favourites towards employees that have been there a year or longer, making anyone pick up the slack as many Shift leads would not work Saturday nights and leave it to the same person every single weekend without rotation.  The workplace culture here is extremely cliquey and the girls make it very hard to make to be friends with one another. The hardest part of this job is that management will not have your back when guests are being extremely rude and violent towards you. The easiest part of the job is the closing checklist, all it really is is cleaning which should be easy.

Putting Edge is a horrible place to work. The management here is an absolute joke. Everything is micro managed, everything you could possibly think of. They do not know how to do their jobs, but believe they're the best thing since sliced bread. There is no secret on how to manage this location well. It has been the best performing one for many many years, but the managers believe they are the masterminds behind the work. For the schedules, if you want to dispute your availability every week, then this is the place for you. They either don't check your availability supplied electronically (for ease of use), or just don't look at it. Always a toss up between the 2 week to week. You are rarely given the time you requested off, unless you really push for it. They do this thing called "paid breaks" where you get to eat for 10-15 minutes and that's your break for the entire shift. The only thing that is good about this job is your coworkers beneath the management.

At the beginning the job was subpar. There isn’t really any room for growth, not like you are going to be told how to improve. 
Getting hours is really a favouritism game. You are either loved and overworked or getting slandered with no hours.
Store manager barely enjoys the people that work there and instead of helping the employees learn and succeed, they will instead talk behind their backs and say the most horrendous things. 
Honestly a very toxic environment. There’s potential for it to be a fun job but it’s not very welcoming.
Just make sure to tip toe around conversations and be prepared to never leave the front counter bc you’ll be doing everyone else’s job.

everyone treated each other with disrespect, a lot of tension in the workspace and manager treated employees poorly. My job was to take care of the party group I was assigned to. I would lead the children into the golf course and explain to them how to play then afterwards chaperone and make sure everyone is having fn. Once that was done, I would bring them to their party room and serve them pizza and drinks. The children then had the time to play with the arcade while I cleaned up the party room. (sweeping/mopping the floor, sanitizing the tales, taking out the trash, washing dishes). Closing duties required dusting all machines and checking that they are function properly.

I worked at Halifax PE for years as a shift leader, it was a really fun place to work, it’s only a small group so ur close with everyone, and the environment itself is a fun place. If u like kids, music and can have good customer service, this jobs for you. 

You’ll learn a lot along the way, and probably advance higher if u start lower. It’s really common. 

Of course there was a few times over the years HO was annoying, but it’s like that at any company, and it wasn’t crazy at PE. Usually just a reminder here and there from the higher ups. 


Also best part of the crazy weekend shifts: leftover birthday cake from the parties, lifesaver 😆

Avoid working here at all costs. Rules are changing every month; complete absence of logic, and passive aggressive management by head office where you won’t ever receive feedback for mistakes, but rather they’ll just take away your hours while you’re left wondering why this is the case. They illegally spy on you through security cameras and don’t let you sit down for even a few minutes on a 12+ hours shift .

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