Transmission:08.06|Rant: Job Corps, like a prison colony, but it pays for college!
Disclaimer: And now, a rant. In these rants, I do not care who i offend or scare or whatever, when I rant about something nobody’s safe.
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The Department of labor founded an organization known as Job Corps. I have mentioned it a few times in past transmissions. You probably shake your head and wonder, “What the hell is Job Corps?”. Well, this organazation takes people who are at-risk or just need money to pay for college like me and accomidate them financially to do so. Sounds like a good deal right? Hold on there, Jethro. The commercial doesn’t do Job Corps the justice it deserves. I am a Job Corps student and there are some things that you should know about the program.
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When you start, you go through orientation when you go to college. It’s four weeks you will never get back. There are some things that are standard when it comes to any kind of orientation; speakers, paperwork, etc. Be prepared to go through long periods of time between doing anything in this program.
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The students you deal with in this program are loud, unruly, and disrespectful to both other students and counselors. If you try to ask a question in a group, forget about it. If you want that information, you have to listen very carefully, and good luck with that with the people you’re around. If you hate rap music, no lie, you are going to be ridiculed and annoyed.
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Do not go if you are white. If you are white, you better be one of those wigger kids. Otherwise you are subject to the racial verbal abuse given on a daily basis.
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Be prepared to sit in the wellness center for hours on end for the first week. Be prepared to hear people complain about everything in the world. “Oo, Negative!! They ain’t stickin’ me with no needles man!”
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The disorganazation of the staff is mind-boggling. My god. They give you a schedule every week and then they don’t adhere to it AT ALL. Just go to lunch every day at the same time, then go to the room where the group meets and then ZOMG! MORE CHANGES TO THE SCHEDULE TO MAKE UP FOR THE ITEMS THAT WE MISSED! Infuriating.
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Don’t even ask about anything to the staff. They will look at you like you’re a piece of shit and then give you some smartass answer. In fact, don’t talk to the staff at all.
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Don’t even think about staying on-campus. From [ripoffreport.com]:
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[quote] “The living conditions were disgusting. One of the females on my floor even defecated in the shower and one threw used tampons in on the floor. No one should have to live like that.”
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On pay-day, they will find ways to fine you.
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I sit around and wonder how the HELL these people end up in college. They just take anyone now, but that really doesn’t mean that they’ll be there for long.
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Policies change so many times it’s horrible.
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Don’t get me started on the standard of dress. The clothes they give you are starched like no tomorrow and they’re itchy. No individuality whatsoever.
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In college, you’re treated like an adult. In Job Corps, you’re not treated like a high-schooler, you’re treated like a delinquent. Damn, I never got in trouble with anyone. Why the hell must you treat me like shit? There’s someone else out there destroying property, give this treatment to someone who deserve it!
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If you even try to open your mouth to tell other kids to shut up, you are just asking the students to start shit with you. “Don’t start with me. You don’t know who you’re fuckin’ with. I am not the one.” Fuck you.
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There’s always someone who wants a cigarette. Then when you turn around and want one of theirs, they charge you.
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When you get your pay or your bus pass, come early or you will stay in line for what seems like hours for your meager pay. Again, you are subject to verbal abuse in blackanese, and horrible rap music.
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The bathrooms are just bad. They are three times worse than a portapotty.
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The food is nothing to write home about, but it’s free. Yay. Oh, if you spill something, wipe it up because the janitors there will just put a “wet floor” sign over the spill and they won’t clean it up. They’ll just let it soak in so that your shoes will stick to the ground. “OH NO THEY DI-INT. I GOT ORANGE SODA ON MY TIMBS!” Fuck your Timbs. If I fall and break my neck, you’ll laugh at me, i’ll black out and I can sue. Now who’s laughing.
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You can’t listen to your iPod to tune out the idiots.
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They will mark you AWOL for not signing the right sheet.
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When you walk out for your next cigarette, don’t stand next to a dorm window. They will throw shit out the window. Cups, plates, dirty underwear.
Keep in mind, this is Pittsburgh’s Job Corps Center (labled as the BEST Job Corps Center in the country)that this anger is geared to. It may be different in other places, but i seriously doubt it. If you consider going here, please keep this entry in consideration. Enjoy your stay at Job Corps, douchebags!
1. I’m not even going to go here. They really really proved themselves unworthy even on the first day and this ties into number 5.
2. The reason the students are so horrible is because they are people who have to live on campus because they were kicked out of their homes. I mean seriously, they are getting PAID to sit on their ass and do nothing. They are the rudest bunch of children that I have ever met in my life. Completely disgusting. As well as the whole “If you hate rap thing” yes, it’s true. I had my mp3 player and I was listening to music and someone was like, “Are you listening to such and such?” And I’m like “No.. I’m listening to Skillet” and they’re like “Oooo rap?” And I’m like “no.” And they’re like, “You got a problem with rap?” “No only some.” “That ain’t right yo, you prolly listen ta dat shiiiit dat dey call rock” “Umm… yea… ok” “Do ya gots a problem wif me?” Me: -Shakes head- “Nope not at all. -Walks away-”
3. I myself had a problem with this but I’m not going to get into it. It was just a pain in the ass.. I didn’t stay in Job Corps for more than two days because of this main thing.
4. This… pissed me off the most about the place. I had all of my shots up to date and a paper that said so.. but they still wanted to give me more shots. I fucking HATE needles… no way. Sorry. But I wasn’t like the other people who made a big deal about it.
5. This is another thing that pissed me off.. first we had to stand in a line for a few hours to get an ID and then we had to get a bus pass. Not happening. They had absolutely no idea what they were doing.
6. I also had this problem. These people are working around a bunch of different delinquents and they are picking up their attitude as well. It’s completely ridiculious, and very petty.
7. I never thought about staying there anyway.. fuck that shit.
8. I didn’t stay long enough for a pay day so I wouldn’t know. – Thank god!
9. Thank you! Finally someone understands! My cousin was like “Omg! this is so awesome! They pay for everything” NO. Not happening. I hated it the first day and I dispised it the next.
11. I don’t even want to get started on that shitty standard of dress that you were supposed to have. Throughout the first two days, they said that we had to be dressed appropriately.. so we went out and bought me some new clothes, I was actually happy about them.. but nooo.. the next day they go and give everyone uniforms and all the girls got MENS clothing… how fucked up is that?! Gah… they completely suck there… completely and utterly have no idea what they are doing.
12. The people at CCAC are so nice and completely helpful to you… Job Corps is an organization out there that makes you think like you are getting help because they pay you 50 bucks bi-weekly.. yea… 100 bucks a month is going to help someone.. honestly.. I know it does a little but they are paying people for nothing! -Sigh-
13. I learned this the hard way. I asked someone to please be quiet.. in the nicest way I could.. and they bitched at me for it… like I was fucking wrong?! WTF?! That’s just uncalled for. I was like “I didn’t exactly do anything wrong? Is it necessary to yell like that?” “I’LL YELL IF I WANNA YELL! GOT DAT YA WHITE BITCH!?” Me: -Sighs and shakes head-
14. Again… I’m not going to go here.. this was uncalled for and totally rude. Someone called me a “racist cracker bitch” because I said that I didn’t have any cigarettes. And I am telling the upmost truth on that.
15. I heard people doing “rap-battles” outside in the front. I had a problem because people just kept getting in front of me… they would seriously just walk infront of me and say “You don’t mind do you cracker?” “Excuse me.. please don’t call me that. I have a name. And I wouldn’t mind if you would ask properly, but I do have a name.” “Whatever, bitch.” I’m sorry.. but if you don’t know me, you have no reason to call me a bitch, I was nice and polite, which is definitely a step up from what I could have been like, and everyone that knows me knows that.
16. I never went to bathroom at all. I was like “no way. Nope.”
17. I never ate there either. Brought some doritos and some pop in my bag. Me and my friend just walked around during lunch time. I was like “No.” And as for the whole pop spilling thing… that happens everywhere. And what baffles me the most is the fact that people spend over 100 dollars on a pair of shoes when.. what do you do with shoes? you WALK on the ground with them.. they WILL get dirty. It’s pointless. Jeez.. I’m happy with my 20 dollar shoes from Target or my 10 dollar shoes from Wal-Mart.. they get me from point A to point B and don’t fall apart until after like a year. Works for me. It also disgusts me when people buy like ten tons of different colored shoes just to match their outfits. During high school… I noticed this a lot, yet it was, and I hate to say it, mainly the black people in the school with that horrible excuse for an english language who ended up getting free lunches from the school.. yea no wonder you have to get free lunches because you spend all of your fucking money on the shoes just to match every single shirt that you own.
18. I didn’t have a problem listening to my mp3 player. Whenever I was spoken to, I turned it off. Some lady actually pulled me aside and asked me to put it away and I said, “I’m sorry but I can’t do that. I have put up with enough listening to these people abuse the English language and I’ve gotten to a point where I just can’t take it anymore. I’m not bothering anybody, I’m not fighting with anyone. I’m just sitting in the corner.. is that so wrong?” She let me slide that day.
19. I only signed in twice. xD I never went back.
20. I never smoked there because I didn’t want people coming up and asking me for one. I actually think that I smoked one time going from the one place to the wellness center and someone asked me for a cigarette and I politely said that it was my last one and I showed them my pack so that they believed me, they were and I SWEAR ON THIS, the ONLY people that didn’t fight with me about it. I fucking hated that place.
Oh man, this is why I’m glad I never got into Job Corps. I heard about it but I didn’t know the seedy underbelly that it really is. Well, leave it to Pittsburgh to have such high standards for things.
Job Corps is what you make it. You want an education? Go to Job Corps, they’ll make you follow rules, fine you for being a jerk-for things like not wearing your uniform-like you are supposed to, fine you for cutting classes-yeah, and….charge you for demanding to go home so you can be with the “people who really love ya”…that’s why you need Job Corps! You should take advantage of the Program, get all you can out of it, maybe find a job, or go further in school. Staying home and complaining got you nowhere-try something that works-maybe you will too.
sga v.p-gold status-student of the year- student of the month- center directors award- completed hsd & trade! Harpers Ferry-
:Noone deserves to go through what you go through! all thing said are true. and all those things i listed on the top of this replly are me! but what it meant was an image for the center. If your strong! go and be strong. but dont expect nothing. only the paper that says your certified! and then get the fuck out! thats what jobcorps is. dont expect nothing. I was sga. We never could get them to listen to the students voice. and jcnurse if the centers were there for the students and not the money things would be better but their not. I know. I know alot. I was very good. followed all the rules. created the mac website for region two. and all for nothing. but a piece of paper. and no cts support. but atleast i got my paper!
and not all centers pay for college. thats pittsburg! I was on a ghetto center. out in the middle of nowheres. No leaving off center unless there was a trip. and restricted students always got on and us who workedo ur asses off were shit. those who cared were nothing. those who wanted that paper had to deal wit discrimination, and hate! but we still fought through to get that certification for free! that was important. with corrupt security and ra’s it onlky gets better let me tell ya!
ok im done! jus givin my opinion
and not all centers pay for college. thats pittsburg! I was on a ghetto center. out in the middle of nowheres. No leaving off center unless there was a trip. and restricted students always got on and us who workedo ur asses off were shit. those who cared were nothing. those who wanted that paper had to deal wit discrimination, and hate! but we still fought through to get that certification for free! that was important. with corrupt security and ra’s it onlky gets better let me tell ya!
ok im done! jus givin my opinion
omg…my son wants to do this becasue he think im unfair i want him to get a job…probably get his behind killed in mississippi
I am in the jacobs creek job corps its awfull the food is worse than military rations they just made up a rule that we cant bring more than I think three items of food back from our trips wich we get to go to walmart once every couple months and then its only five people from each dorm they pick it by card color and it doesnt matter if your the first to sign up you could get buped completly off the list they also just banned people from having boxes of food sent to them we have been told people are selling them on center and the canteen isnt getting profits so they dont want any student having large amounts of food. they use the money for trips but then they only take the leaders the last one thats what they did I suggested camping a month before and then when they finaly decided to go I was not allowed to becouse I wasnt a leader. at the job corps I am at they we dont have the ability to get a part time job so forget saving up money for when we leave right before christmas break we were told that was taken away. I had sleeping meds presribed to me and once they got to wellness they refused to give them to me. the whole staff are rude is corect one of the stadd members slamed a door into a close friends face actualy hitting her in the face she said she was going to pop him in the mouth and got kicked out he is still in my dorm. I have a male staff asigned to my dorm I am in the only females dorm on center we should have a female staff member. the students are cruel they rely do let criminals on center they take away from the students that act right to punish the ones that arnt. I dont get enough sleep we have meeting two days out of the week that we dont need the information is eaither common sense or things that they have gone over in the last twenty meetings it takes away from being able to get a little bit of sleep in. we clean the entire dorm twice a day again waste of time I live in a military clean house and we dont clean our house twice a day. girls do deficate on the floors and leave dirty tampons every were. our center goes without the washing machines for days at a time and we end up wearing diry clothes. the staff members say they will deal with somthing and they dont there is not such thinkg as zero tolerance one girl ripped a large patch of hair out of another girls head and they did nada she went on to threaten someone else still nada it wasnt until she jumped someone that she got kicked out and this kind of thing happens all the time. someone got drugs sent to them and the center found the drugs and didnt even get the police invovled its horrible
geeez ppl….u want to fucking pay for college?? its free……..u follow theyre rules or get out………
all of that is the same here at blackwell job corps in wisconsin. Which is why im leaving.
Wow you people are all whiney bitches. I am a student at the Clearfield Job Corp. Yes black people are lazy peaces of shit that butcher the english language. Yes the staff suck fat ass donkey cock. Yes they pay you shit. Yes everyone listenes to rap. Yes you have to listen to there stupid rules and were there stupid clothes. But it is free and they are giving you a free education. Its not like you are gonna be there for the rest of your life unless your a complete dumb fuck. The black idiots get kicked out on a consistent basis, so just know that the piece of shit that just called you a cracker will be kicked out anywere from a week to a month, go back to living in the dumpster they were living in befor, slangin themz roks, and blaming white people because they got it bad. Another thing off the subject if your black stop blaming white people cause you have no brain and cant hold down a job. I mean ya we enslaved your people like what two hundred years ago, but your own people enslaved your kind sold you to the english and thats how you got here. If you honestly have a problem with white people for that you could always go back to your starving aids infected piece of shit third world country. Maybe you could make a spear and kill a fuckin wild pig or something. Or you could stay here cram all your problems up your ass, stop bein a worthless piece of shit, stop shooting people, selling drugs, thinkin your hard, get a job, pull up your fucking pants, and get a life. How many hundred years again has it been and you still havent gotten your act together? Wow. Anyways sorry bout the rant thats just been bugging me. Like I said job corp student myself. The program is good in itself but the people make it bad. If you are in control of your own life and know that others cant control how you feel or think then you can make it thru the program and be in a way better possition then you were befor. I have been in job corp for 7 months I am 96 percent complete and will be completing in one month never to look back on the stupidity of the few. I will only think of the acomplishments I have gained for myself. So quit talking trap because you couldnt handle. All it is showing to me is that you are weak and couldnt handle. You let others control you not you controlling your own shit. Anyways I said what needs to be said here.
I am thinking of going to job corps myself! I don’t know what to expect i have heard from some people that it is the best thing in life that they could of done and it gave them a hand up in life for getting and keeping a job, that you have a job set up when you leave and an apartment to go to and all that good stuff and that job corps helps you for a few months after you leave. However i have also heard that you will get beat up there and the staff is a bunch of a holes and what not. I am thinking of attending the one at Blackwell,wi what do you guys think. let me know at carawanray@yahoo.com-email me.
I am a graduate of Job Corps. Sorry some people have had problems with the program, I myself loved it! I went to the Blackwell JC campus in Wisconsin. Yes it had many cultures from south central Chicago gang members in it to farmers from the UP. We all got along. Great staff and fair rules is what made it good.
Make the best of Job Corps. If you can put up with some BS, in the long run it will pay off. I now, after 10 years after job corps, now run a very successful business with 43 employees. Would not be here if it was not for Job Corps help.
job corps sucks ya some job corps are better then others but i have to listin 2 dumb fucks every day like last night i was holdin my boyz cell and a black kid walked up and tryed ripping it out of my hand and then he got in my face and i shoved his ass across the room and he said ima fight u and i said bring it u dont know who ur fuckin wit and now im just waitin for him 2 tryn rush me so i can beat his fuck ass down like i beat his boy down i dont play games wit guys that tryn act hard cause they think cali,s hard ya go to the getto in florida where i grew up i am the nicest guy u will meet untill u piss me the fuck off then i will stomp ur ass in the ground and to the security YALL CAN FUCK OFF U DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS cause all they do is ride around in there vans and i personally dont like job corps cause it sucks to many punk ass bitchs tryn to act hard and a word to the ppl that dont like me i never back down and i am not scared of any 1 so bring it punks and u will hit the pavement
If you make it what you seem, the Job Corps that we go to has all the Qualities of home. Yes everything Is paid for, you have your dorm,your clothes they give you, and the money that is given every other week, we may complain about somethings but AJCC is a wonderful place to be to at, do to the leaders trying to help out in every aspect that they can. At times yes things get changed very fast from rules, to dresscode, to non-smoking campus which highly inforced everyday. we as leaders Do our very best to make this place as best as it can be. There’re inmature Kids that Fuck things up for the rest of the campus for the most part things Chill.
1. Better than ARMY boot camp orientation which takes 1/4 of the time but is 4 times more painful to endure.
2. The people there are morons. Bring earplugs, ear muffs and a tie.
3. The Southern California Job Corps has lots of Hispanic people.
4. Don’t do drugs or alcohol and you wont pass out from needles.
5. Request for a psychologist to examine you, be nice to security and ask the head of the department the REAL rules of the center.
6. If they are rude or reckless, get a lawyer/cop involved fast.
7. Yes, sleep off-center if you can. There are smoking HOBOS and flaming HOMOS EVERYWHERE.
8. Carry jolly ranchers, band-aids and tylenol.
9. Stay upwind and on the side of the staff.
10. Don’t lose your keys or papers, Get a undershirt.
11. Don’t bring in contraband and don’t sell it.
waiting on the job corps to call me whenever the hell that maybe…
i dropped out of high school biggest mistake I’ve made in a while. seeing as ppl have negative inputs and others have positive inputs its kind of confusing the hell out of me of what to expect. I’m honestly sitting here like wtf do i have to expect whether its getting picked on my a bunch of social fuck ups or people stealing my shit. for the most part i dont really have a problem getting along with ppl but then again i am in Georgia where ppl seem to like to start shit with others for fun. there are a few things i wanted to know:
1. Does anyone have a personal input of the Turner Job Corps in Georgia? (if so could you fill me in)
2. How are the showers set up? (not big on the whole showering with dudes)
3. What are the rooms like? (like the size of the room and the size of the beds)
and any other info you can provide would be widely appreciated
email me if you have any info kthx
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