Thread regarding Corinthian Colleges Inc. layoffs

Face it, CCI is closing! Turn out the lights, the parties over

All those who may hold out hopes of possibly better things to come, just make sure you have your resume updated. The final agreement calls for the orderly sale and teach out of CCI campuses. Sure some may retain their jobs if purchased, but overall the prognosis is not that good. With DOE, congress, 20 state AGs looking at you, what can you expect?

Looking back at CCI management, it was always about starts and not much emphasis about placement until DOE and AGs started breathing down their necks. In the overall "scheme" (pun intended), the student outcomes took a back seat to profit. The start numbers were micromanaged week to week to the n-th degree. Career opportunities did exist for those who would engage in the who you know and who you blow concept of career enhancement. Those who were hired as CPs were expected to turn a campus around in 6 months or they were gone. Hence, the high turnover at the campus level. How is that for management support and training. Management philosophy promoted the dog eat dog atmosphere that apparently prevails up until the upcoming stroke of midnight.

Yes, you will hear the disciples expound fruitlessly about the success stories, but hey! They are few and far between. The problem did not start with CCI. It is a societal and more specifically a parental problem when kids and young adults lack the social skills and educational guidance they should have acquired at an early age. No amount of technical training is going to provide those soft skills employers seek. (Hence, the negative reputation of CCI students.) However, it becomes solely a CCI problem when they actively recruit and target those with little chance of success and that is where you are at today. That is why in desperation you hear those who state they would recruit from homeless shelters and other off-the-beaten path places. Starts! Starts! Starts! Was the rallying cry. But maybe this will be a lesson learned for other for-profit schools to follow. If you enroll those with a reasonable chance for success and DELIVER ON THE STUDENT OUTCOMES AS PROMISED, then success will follow. I am sure that many of you would agree that as a result of high turnover, many of your young or inexperienced managers were enthralled with their self-importance not knowing one iota of personnel management skills. So the question becomes where was the campus support for staff and faculty when needed most? It was essentially non-existent. At this point I see CCI demise as well earned by the board and your management personnel

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Post ID: @OP+wpSD3na

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VERY WELL SAID!!!!

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Post ID: @xPO+wpSD3na

Many seemed to have learned their management style from Stanley Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory'..."You will take the anthill Colonol Dax..or your men will be shot for cowardice" The local bosses never realized they had the collective (if they held together) power to tell regional to stick it! So they were abused and picked off one-by-one...

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Post ID: @nBq+wpSD3na

believe it or not, there are people who still have their heads in the clouds (or buried in Da Nile). So all you posters saying "yeah, yeah, trust us we all know what's going down" all I can say is you don't work in Socle.

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Post ID: @mST+wpSD3na

17428 sorry you're just a week late. We bent over already...even kissed our asses goodbye...and nothing happened. Its like we were told Y2K was coming, the clock struck midnight and it was only the day after 12/31/1999. We know what's happening, we even get why. We just aren't sure when and how we will be put out of our misery. Most of us know life after CCI is probably better for us and would walk today IF were in a position to do so. Since our crystal balls were broken, we have to ride it out and do the least amount of damage to our families. So again, this message was far more impactful last week...when we read it for the first time. This is about number 99...next time there's a party, come on time. :)

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Post ID: @G03+wpSD3na

Hold on, let me go grab my spit-guard. OK, please continue...

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Post ID: @41o+wpSD3na

Yes that is the best I can do for now, but there is no getting away from, you are finished. If what I said isn't true, then why are you closing? Need I say more? Or is it you are a frustrated employee who resents the truth? Must be a inexperienced manager. Finally, it is obvious you have no constructive counter argument other than to resort to your amateurish missive devoid of any fact or substance. But wait! I will stoop to your level for a moment and recommend you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye

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Post ID: @nbi+wpSD3na

Rage-CHECK. Disorientation-CHECK. Excessive drooling-CHECK. Arousal-CHECK. Having been here for a few days now, I've thankfully become immune to all you self-absorbed gas bags. C'mon, is that the best you can do?

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Post ID: @871+wpSD3na

Very good analysis.

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Post ID: @v8H+wpSD3na

I thought we were to save jobs and dreams?

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Post ID: @m3R+wpSD3na

thanks dream-crusher...

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Post ID: @8MB+wpSD3na

It's a good thing Starbucks is nearby.

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Post ID: @ZuD+wpSD3na

Everybody sees the same thing you see. No one is holding out hope. Folks are just trying to see what when and how this all unravels so they can move on with life. This is the same lame "wake up and smell the coffee" post. We smell it. Its strong.

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