Thread regarding Education Management Corporation layoffs

CAN'T SPELL FOR Sh--. PRIME EDMC CANDIDATE.

I thought EDMC was great for the first 6 months and then the pressure with numbers excelarated, because I was good at deceiving people not smart enough, or just too lazy to do research on the brand I was selling at a high rate. Most people there are on some kind of substances and overweight because of the the moral and stressful environment of inflated numbers and constant policy changes. And that should tell you something. When I weighed the pros versus the cons the only pros are the people you get to know. The cons outweighed everything else! I hope some of those students I victimized with false hope and lies can forgive me someday.

I thought EDMC was great for the first 6 months and then the pressure with numbers excelarated, because I was good at deceiving people not smart enough, or just too lazy to do research on the brand I was selling at a high rate. Most people there are on some kind of substances and overweight because of the the moral and stressful environment of inflated numbers and constant policy changes. And that should tell you something. When I weighed the pros versus the cons the only pros are the people you get to know. The cons outweighed everything else! I hope some of those students I victimized with false hope and lies can forgive me someday.

Wow, 231! I will attempt to give you some insight. First of all, this is a very tight job market for anyone looking to quit and find another job. I don't think any of us could argue that positions that pay more than minimum wage are scarce and there are many unemployed folks applying for ANYTHING they could possibly do. We all have mouths to feed and homes to pay on to keep us safe and warm. We cannot be unemployed for ANY period of time, and especially not during the holidays.

My guess is that admissions reps are all very aware of what they are doing and how it will affect the student. The reps are paid very well, as we know. For the rest of us in other departments, we follow the policies given to us by "management", a term that is used loosely at EDMC. Call me gullible, but I honestly believed the Kool-aid chat that was presented to us. We were "helping those who were less fortunate" and giving them the "tools" to change their lives. I shouted from every roof top! When presenting my department to new students at orientation, I stated "I have the best job in the building because I am helping students change their lives". I ate, drank and slept that personal motto and incoming students remembered it!

My heart honestly broke when I found out what was really going on. I worked diligently every day for 12 years to help students improve their circumstances. I drank the Kool-aid, and when I was presented the chance to get on the life raft while the EDMC Titanic was going down, I felt I had no other option. The Regional VP is a vicious snake, and I knew if I didn't take the offer I would most likely be unemployed with no severance package.

I wish now, looking back, that I had known better than to pour my heart and soul in to a fraudulent company. Had I realized that they were criminals I would have jumped ship a LONG time ago!

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Please cite your source on that. We would like to see any document that states most colleges are writing arbitration clauses into their admission papers.

Again, the issue with Ai and EDMC specifically is that they wrote in an arbitration clause and then essentially provided nothing in the way of an education to low-income, veteran, and non-traditional students on top of lying about their job placements and the prestige of the schools. Is this not a point of contention? Paying high price for a niche education that is supposedly highly valued in the job market and respected among employers are two of the main reasons anyone at Ai attended. You're supposed to be getting your money's worth kind of thing.

I'm sure there are plenty of Ai and EDMC employees who were well aware of the corruption and the "out" the arbitration clause provided the company. The company raked in more federal funds than most schools, and for-profits in general have higher default rates than other schools, such as community colleges. The end-all-be-all is the company moved forward with collecting as much federal funds as possible, provided no education to their students -- some even running out of funds and not completing the program -- and left them high and dry.

With the arbitration clause in place, they were free to get away with it. How come former faculty or staff aren't joining the students in numbers for protesting, if education is so important to them? Why, at the time of enrolling students, you didn't make students aware of the arbitration clause? Hell, why not even suggest that this is not the school for them if you can't explicitly say "this school is a debt factory?" It boils down to accountability. The students have been taking the accountability on this for a while, but to be 100% complicit with the policies put in place by EDMC in ruining futures even further with a debt sentence should be punishable. Why is it so difficult for some of the EDMC staff to stay, "yes, it was fraud, and we all knew it. The problems should be corrected."?

The majority of colleges/universities have arbitration clauses. I don't know why that's such a point of contention.

Unsuspecting from the standpoint that nobody - students and their parents - would ever consider a "school" and those working there would lie to them. To anyone who has or does work at Ai and EDMC, why would anyone feel good about inflating the job placement rates? How can you willing lie about the prestige of Ai to students and their parents while, all along, you knew the education wouldn't get them far and they would just incur debt? I think what I don't understand is if you knew your employer hid an arbitration clause because the education they were providing was shit, why turn around and blame the student? Students were told loans were easy to pay, lenders were flexible, and with their high salary job, they could make the payments. I'm sorry. Everyone working at EDMC knew the dirty tricks and now are pissing and moaning the gravy train is slowing. I don't feel sorry for the employees at all. You got what you deserved. Those students that were scammed still have it worse than you, so be quiet.

I will do that and see how difficult this thing is to read and understand.

You can easily read the enrollment agreement if you don't believe it. Go to www.apply.aionline.edu and fill out an application the enrollment agreement is the last page...just put a fake phone number or some AR will call your ninja app and try to waive the $50 dollar app fee

Hey just trying to see where this information is coming from. Want to make sure the information is legit and not some schmo on the street making stuff up because they heard from someone who heard from someone else, who looked at an EDMC building and made up something. So why do you continue to work for a company you believe is sinking? Why not look for another job if you don't like it there? No need to get angry.

Yes, dick

So you work for EDMC and know this as fact?

The Enrollment Agreement is deceptive and AR's are actually encouraged to shoot students through it without reading it all. So that is bullshit. Combine that with the fact that the majority of those you are recruiting couldn't read most of the words in the agreement anyhow....but keep telling yourself that. Ship is sinking, folks.

Potential students do not google the potential school they are interested in attending?

How bout that "unsuspecting " arbitration clause?

How are students unsuspecting when they all sign an enrollment agreement that shows them what it will cost to complete a program? And the company is in the news.

No one did anything

Don't be angry people are waking up to the fraud. Time to find a job where you earn your money instead of fraudulently collecting federal tax dollars through unsuspecting students.

Why be angry? Deep down everyone at EDMC knew what they were doing. If anyone is that gullible to believe they were helping people, they should be taken outside and beaten with a tack hammer. A lot of people will be pissed, but it's only because they know the fraud to be true. Just be honest about it.

There are no protests today. Million Student march today.

I'm super lazy and my haircut looks dumb.

Bring it!

There are none. I guess their ideas are not that important.