instructor

welder

senior instructional designer

accounts payable clerk

technologist

Texas State Technical College

Systems office said be prepared for a full day of new employee orientation on your first day. It consisted of 15 minutes where I filled out my I-9, was handed a bunch of insurance information to look at on my own time, handed a pamphlet regarding Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, signed a form for keys to my office, signed a form for the laptop I was given. That was it. Went to my office where left over furniture that no one else wanted was set-up, no chair for me to even sit in. It only goes downhill from there. The President spends so much time traveling for her kids sports functions, taking cruises, going on out-of-state and out-of-country vacations; I really wonder why she even took a job A job whereby there is a large amount of responsibility and employees would like to know that the president is present and informed.
At a Professional Development Day, the President got up to speak and we thought it would be one of those morale boosting, motivational speeches. It started out that way and then devolved into a reprimand where she stated she was caught off guard and embarrassed at one of the Board Meetings where it was noted that yet again West Texas Campus enrollment was down after she had promised her peers and the chancellor that it would not be down. She made that promise without asking for valid data and current numbers from her cabinet members; so we paid the price. During the next enrollment we all worked from the start of the day until 8 and 9 every weekday evening as well as on Saturday and Sunday. While we were working 7 days a week over 70 hours that week; the President spent the weekend up in Dallas for her birthday at a Texas Rangers Game.
There is no feedback as to your performance; good or bad. Drastic decision making by upper management does not seem to be clearly thought out or based on any valid information or analysis. It seems to be based on immediate wants/needs and favors the desires of "friends" in the community.

I would work with the instructors and staff to help them with any projects.  Cleaning the copiers and computers, when they needed to be cleared of any viruses or delete any software applications.  I was very independent and had to take apart the copiers, for inspections.  There was a time when the laminator was not working correctly and it was getting the covers stuck, so I took it apart and found out that the wheel inside had fallen off.
My supervisor and the director of the Business Management Technology Department, were very generous.  I had to take a break from school, so I was not able to do the work study any longer, so they threw my a small party.  It was great, but a sad time for some of us.
There was not anything that was too hard to do.  I always found something to do in the building.  One of the semester break they asked the financial aid department, if I could stay for the extra time.  I had to work with two departments.  The Education Department was the other department.  They were so happy to have me there, because I was always eager to work and I helped them clean the computers in their lab.  They had to replace a lot of the keyboards, because the letters were missing or the key were gone.
I also worked with the students and did some of the paperwork.
I have been in management for many years, so I never needed to be supervised, with the work.
I learned how to be patient and I enjoyed the job very much.

It was common knowledge among employees that if you fell out of particular people's good graces, you would be terminated, even if you were doing a great job.  If you are in that special 'family', it doesn't matter whether you do your job or not. There isn't communication between upper management and front line employees. Many people are promoted even though they don't have knowledge of the ins and outs of each department. Those employees make decisions for all departments even though they don't know the policies/procedures of each department! If they decide to terminate l, they will find ANYTHING to write you up for, whether it was recently or months before. If you work hard & do a good job, they will continue to assign more & more to you. Some employees are compensated fairly while othersb bemployees (no matter how long they've been ) 6allbnğTSTC. Employees doing the same jobs can have salaries that are thousands of dollars different. New employees usually have a better salary than seasoned employees even if they do the same job. By seasoned employees I mean employees that have been at TSTC for more than 15-20 years!!

A typical day with students is wonderful.  For the most part they are excited about being there and willing to learn.  My co-workers are great.  The hardest part of the job is the constant revolving door of submitting schedules, finding room space, turning in syllabi, getting students certified, tracking everyone's calendars every 4 months.  

Our team is far understaffed for what we are being asked to accomplish.  The gameplan has continued to change over the last 9 months.  Impossible to hit management's moving target.  We have an adjunct instructor that is teaching six courses and other duties assigned but TSTC doesn't have the money to move her to full-time.  Yet there is a full-time instructor for the past year has taught only one class per semester and is getting full-time pay with benefits.
There isn't money to give raises but somehow money was found to pay for three new positions for a new program being developed.  Our HR person is involved in much more than simple HR functions.  But I guess she has to be since our President is hardly around.  Yep took off for an extended weekend to the Kentucky Derby.  I can barely afford my bills but our President travels the globe.  

The Sweetwater campus is very toxic.  People are in that "gotcha" mode and love keeping trouble stirred up.    

So, the day starts by reviewing my schedule for any early appointments. Then I check my emails for any updates that go along with making appointments or rescheduling my already existing appointments. As well as any messages from my supervisor. After all of that I start making phone calls and writing emails to all of my mentees. I learned that there is more than one way to reach someone. For example, you can reach them through Google Chat. And I was given an opportunity to put together a workshop and host it. The employees that over see me are absolutely great. I think the hardest part of this job can be when your appointment doesn't show up and you have to find a way to fill that time slot that will be productive to what you are trying to complete that day. I would have to say that I really enjoy my tutoring appointments because they are longer than the Mentoring meeting. And I get to help the students understand the material that they are studying. Don't get me wrong I enjoy my meetings with my mentees. It's just that they are a bit short and I would like to get to know them more to better help them.

I work at the Office of Student Success as a Peer Mentor. I mentor college students who have fallen under academic or financial aid suspension which are placed into the HATSS program (Helping a TSTC Student Succeed). I also assist New Student Orientation students and students in the ABE program (Adult Basic Education). My office and mentorship is open to all college students enrolled at Texas State Technical College. As a mentor I am responsible to
provide insight on being a successful student and continuing education,implement lessons/activities to help mentees learn about different careers, as well asadministrative tasks, including answering phones, typing or word processing, data entry, and filing. My co-workers are also TSTC students and we get along well, we always work as a team. The hardest part of the job is keeping communication with students that do not want my assistance. I can motivate my students but it will only work if the student wants to be helped. My most enjoyable part of the job is being able to help my students, if I can make a difference to even one student my job as a mentor will continue throughout that student's life.

I was a great place to  work and enjoyed the students   and faculty.
Every semester brought me  new ways to teach my new students in class. What  I learned that all student  had different ways of learning.  you have the ones that  learn by  Auditory and would rather listen then  me talking about it,The visual student  learns by   me showing the student how to do it. Most people learn  by a combination of the three . The most . The hardest part of the job was turning there assignments. They had excellent Benefits for all of the employees.We would accrue eight hours of sick leave and eight hours of vacation .So if my children  got sick or were sick it was really nice to know that I would be paid for that day. if  saved your vacation days I was able to take a nice one week vacation with my family.I started  working at TSTC in 1987 as a secretary my job was to register  news students every semester and create there schedules and input them int the correct  classes.  so they would be sure for them to  graduate when they were supposed to.Eventually I moved up to Instructor

This program requires the students to be at their maximum and strive for nothing less than 100%. The dedication to this program was great and left no time for anything else including immediate life.  I learned nursing from  the fundamentals to the practical to the excellence at a very professional manner from all my instructors.  Their scheduled lectures and clinical hours well very well organized that it gave us the optimized opportunity to learn and successfully achieve certification from both areas.  The number in the class was limited in order to obtain the most of the instructor's attention and contained the possible distractions that would possibly occur if the number exceeded the requirement.  Despite the rigorous hours and endless work, which were very hard to keep up with, I enjoyed the program and was sad at the end.  It was impossible for our instructors to teach us on everything that it takes to be a nurse but they thought enough.  At graduation I felt confident to go out into the work force and become the nurse I place myself to be.

Unless you thoroughly enjoy wiping the color brown off of your nose every second of every day, this place is terrible to work at. The fastest way to get a major promotion is learning how to breathe through your nose, requires very little knowledge or intellect, if any at all, and you must suck at teaching in the field you are supposed to be an expert of and TSTC will not fire you, but rather give you a position that requires a lot of education and respected degrees necessary because they do not like to fire those that suck at their field. I wish I could tell you that this review is just some frustrated employee passed over, but that is not the case here at all. Students are denied training, learning, and testing over any equipment within the last decade because certain head-sheds were wasting the college's money on frivolous items never needed. It gets much worse and all I can advise is do not waste your time, unless the first sentence is your personal life motto and choice.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The impact I had on young people's career and worldview was remarkable.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
TSTC dropped programs, which was stressful for the students not knowing their job status.  As an instructor, I was told "when the program closes, you will not have a job. " That displayed a total lack of integrity and created havoc with the team spirit and student outcomes.  The other instructors left TSTC and I had to finish teaching for 3 semesters working from 8am-8pm.  No overtime pay.  That's a Department of Labor mandate.  Not paying for OT is illegal.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic, no trust in leadership.  Upper leadership made some egregious decisions and basically did not support the instructors.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The mandates from leadership on Monday would change by Friday of the same week.

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