1.5 stars-(Warning: Long) Review on Assistant Director Role - Assistant Center Director C2 Education Employee Review

Cons: -Prepare to meet some of the worst bosses of your lifetime: If you are not a center director (CD), your experience at C2 will heavily depend on the personality/work ethics of your CD and district manager. Because of the high turnover rate, I have had at least 8 CDs. Most of them were chill and fabulous, but 2 of them were just absolutely horrendous. One was terribly condescending, hated if coworkers talked to each other on break, and yelled at me until I burst into tears for simply asking if I could go home early as I came earlier in my shift due to an emergency at the center. She would make me do overtime all the time, but was adamant about herself coming in and going home on time. Also no matter how much I told her I wasn't comfortable with someone else driving my car without me in it, she would force me to let our marketing assistant borrow my car all the time (he didn't drive) so that he could pass out marketing flyers at a supermarket 20 mins away. Never got the gas reimbursed either but I didn't expect it to. The other CD was a control freak (she even took out the trash cans in the tutoring rooms because she hated that garbage was being thrown in there...lol wat) and would constantly play mind games with her employees. Moreover, she would alter students’ scores so that’d they be higher after starting at C2 and thus parents would renew for more hours. Most of the DMs will feed you inspirational quotes and encouragements, but I have heard a couple of the DMs gossip and talk crap about their employees. It was like a Korean Mean Girls. The last DM I worked under was amazing though. -Was mislead ALOT: I was given the opportunity by my DM to transfer to a new center that was closer to me, and I excitedly took it. However, she told me later that the new center wasn’t open so she asked if I could work at this other center 40 miles away from me. She promised it was only going to be for 3 weeks so I obliged, but 3 weeks turned into 3 months and when I asked if I could transfer already as the commute was getting too much, she gave me a lecture on sacrifice. Haha. Another time, I was given a raise that was effective immediately, but was told to not expect it until the second paycheck after that date. I ended up not getting it until four paychecks later after I repeatedly asked my DM about it. I didn’t even bother trying to get the difference. -Constant sales pressure: Coming from an educational background, I was initially excited to be working in the education industry and helping students, which was the HR rep sold me on.There is hardly any of that in this position. Instead, you are constantly pressured to meet your sales quota by utilizing useless marketing strategies that are provided, making 30-50 cold calls a day (which you have to track so they know you’re doing it), etc. Because you have to complete a list of every sales technique known to mankind each day, 90% of your time will be spent on trying to drive in new leads and making sales. Most CDs hardly spend any time on already enrolled students because they’ve already paid the money unless the parent is raging angry (which we’d often have to deal with) or if it’s renewal time. All our DM/RM cared about was hitting budget as well. So only work here if you LOVE that sales drive and pressure and disregarding education... actually let me take back. You’re better off on Wall Street where you can be making 10 times more. -Will work you to the bone: The hours are inconvenient, but I knew what I signed up for. However, if you want to take a day off, good luck! I had a director who would get pissed if you tried to take a sick day and another one who would not allow me a single day off during the 9 months I worked with her. I was never given any floating holidays as well in my first year and my life pretty much consisted of overtime. -Too much company expansion: The company presents itself as “high growth”, which means company policies and procedures are changing all the time and can be a double edged sword. Also, you can’t expand too rapidly like Starbucks (nod to our CEO) and open new centers everywhere and not hire enough staff to fill it. Thus resources and manpower is stretched thin, and I often found myself alone in a center doing work for 2 people. Overall I’m glad I got out of that toxic/stressful environment (all my coworkers have as well). My only regret is I’ve stayed and put up with their shenanigans for far too long. TLDR: If you’re someone looking to work for this company, go somewhere else