Job was cut to bring an old employee back! - Anonymous employee ECPI University Employee Review

2.0
Oct 23, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

pay was decent hours were regular, nothing extremely late/early loved my co-workers

Cons

several employees were let go including myself, at very difficult times in their lives, without being told why. it turned out that they let them go so that they could afford to bring an old employee back. that employee ended up leaving again anyway. it was very unprofessional, the management has gone downhill since the old provost left a few years back. were made to work christmas eve, day before thanksgiving, other crazy days when no students were in the building. a lot was asked, minimal was returned.

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The organizational culture at corporate headquarters is highly political and intensely protective of the status quo. There is a pervasive tendency among long-term staff to actively resist modernization or the adoption of standard industry practices. Outdated, inefficient processes are deliberately preserved to safeguard individual roles, even when those workflows directly degrade the student experience. Furthermore, executive leadership focuses heavily on internal politics, insular dynamics, and hyper-monitoring granular KPIs rather than student outcomes. This has created a highly reactive and psychologically unsafe environment characterized by a systemic rejection of external expertise. Outside talent recruited to modernize operations is regularly alienated, targeted, or terminated if they do not completely file and rank within the insular corporate hierarchy. Talented professionals who champion necessary compliance or operational updates face retaliatory pushback from senior management, resulting in a notably high turnover rate among external hires. Compensation is also far less competitive for the level of administrative strain expected.

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