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I enjoyed some of the staff and working with the students, as well as the skills I learned while working there. You have to have extremely tough skin and can work in a super hostile environment!  However, it is a crabs in a bucket culture. Know that if you apply for a management position, you are going to sell your soul. The upper leadership will call you several times after your shift ends, and will get upset if you don't answer your phone. There is a huge gap in work life balance. You have to deal with a lot with the students depending on what department you work in, having to deal with a lot of altercations and brokenness. The morale is very low. Yes, the pay is higher compared to other companies, but you have to ask yourself is it worth all of the challenges and stress? You are always looking over your shoulder for people to attack you and assassinate your character. Did I mention the expectations are extremely unrealistic?  It is a contract, so you will have to reapply when another contractor comes in every time. Your pay and position is subject to change based on their organizational chart. I am not disgruntled, and I made peace with this place. I am simply telling a narrative that past and current people share. That once they departed, they were happier and were at peace. There are a lot of people who have came and gone from this organization, and you can ask them yourselves. But also, if nothing else is believed, then look at the high turnover rate. They have a vacancy on average of 17 positions open on a constant basis. The senior staff is dwindling, which will spike up the turnover rate because newbies hardly stay 3-6 months if that. Upper management (not leadership) is difficult to work with, and lacks competency.  All I can tell you is if you can deal with a lot of workplace drama and not be burned out from the workload and the low morale, then this is the place for you. 

I was excited to begin working with this company and to be able to use my proven skills to help those that needed and wanted to get the training they needed to become successful and self-sufficient, but alas that was not to be.  The massive amount of invasive, unending and redundant paperwork and well as verbal mandates and confusing policies made the process impossible to accomplish. Trying to talk to the management was an insurmountable barrier as well, as they would not listen and sincerely believed that repeating the same behavior and expecting different results was a given. Things just keep piling up and my personal life began to suffer.  I was unable to sleep or talk to my family about anything other than the stress of the job.  The micromanagement of this organization and the failure to be able to utilize proven ideas, was what made working with this entity such an exercise in futility. I had a supervisor to answer to, but as with all things ODLE, there are at least three persons that had to decide what was acceptable and as such, nothing ever got accomplished. The clients, then get discouraged and do not stay with the program, while management passes the blame on to their underlings, and I assume, keeps corporate in the dark about the real reasons for the failures. “Management” is not equipped to train as proven by the staff that keep quitting as fast as they get hired, and so the process becomes a vicious repeating cycle. The workforce staff at the workforce center was excellent to work with and I give them kudos for trying to help with the pressure of us that truly were trying to work for this entity to the benefit of our clients.

I began working here with high hopes, but those were dashed by the unrelenting stress. I performed well, but at the cost of my health.  It's one of those companies that if you perform well, then great. They'll throw you a few bones, but none of the rewards alleviate your stress levels.  Things just keep piling on-- your work- life balance will suffer!  If you're someone who is efficient, you'll be frustrated by all the layers of micromanagement. You essentially will have more than your direct boss to answer to. Everyone operates under fear of failure and reprimand rather than eagerness to learn.  I rated management highly because I had a fantastic director, but otherwise, I wouldn't rate their corporate management highly.  They are not equipped to train and they operate under as much if not more fear and competition. I used to feel bad for them until one actually lied about how she trained me and when I showed I had proof it was suddenly not any issue. That illustration was just a sample of the toxicity you will endure.

I should have known based on the idiots in HR bungling the hiring process multiple times before I even started but this place is offal. It's like this place only attracts the desperate and incompetent, starting with managements laissez-faire approach to constantly dysfunctional and I'll led operations. I've been requesting batteries for dead equipment for 5 months, regular AAA batteries... One more moron tries to explain his/her brand of  dip**** logic I am gonna explode. Honestly I feel bad for the kids.Low pay, terrible hours, vacation time will never be approved, most policies are as draconian as allowed by federal law.

At the New Orleans Job Corps Center we try to be very familiar with our students. On a daily bases we have encounters with our students with business and personal matters. We strive hard to keep them on the right path and provide the adequate information and learning materials for their careers. Our management team supports us to the fullest and try very hard to satisfy our requests when it comes to meeting our students' needs. My co-workers and myself work together and assist each other when needed.  My job is not what you may call hard, it's just busy at times. For the most part, I enjoy what I do to the fullest.

Toxic work culture, stay away!! As a director you have zero power to reprimand a lazy, disrespectful team.  Older employees are stuck in their ways. Optimism and team work approach is met with laughter and disrespect because employees know there is no repercussions for their negative behavior.  It’s sad when you’ve given 110% and don’t have the respect and backing of the center director. 

My experience as an Odle employee at Long Beach Job Corps was horrible!

I worked long hours and was unreasonably overloaded with work.  The compensation was very low, especially for California.  There was no job security.  Good staff who questioned the craziness were fired erroneously.  The management is vile, corrupt, abusive, and unethical from the very top down.  They manage by fear and intimidation.

They are getting getting rich by exploiting the teens they claim to serve and their overworked, abused staff.  Shame on them!

Typical day consisted of approximately 3 hours of meetings. Minimal contact with trainees. Workplace culture is too negative. The focus is not on the trainees but on employee bonuses. Workplace ethics is nonexistent. Great employees are pitted against each other for the sake of performance. 

There is very little communication from the corporate office.  They will contact you and require something that you know nothing about.  The site management, will change policy that affects your job without telling you until you do something that you have always done and then all of a sudden that function has been taken away without your knowledge.

This was not the company I hoped it would be. I am used to working in non for profit and this place absorbed a government granted contract to provide employment services. This company did not really care about its clients they only wanted the numbers as they are a for profit company. I was not a good match

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Residential advisor 23 salaries reported	$17.41 per hour
Instructor 7 salaries reported	$49,857 per year
Career counselor 13 salaries reported	$43,412 per year
Admission counselor 6 salaries reported	$44,548 per year
Licensed practical nurse 3 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour

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