Something Rotten - Tutor MeriEducation Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The tutors here are truly talented, and by and large my coworkers were nice people. Plus I like tutoring, and had good relationships with some kids.

Cons

Where to begin? Turnover rate for employees is sky-high, due to overwork, low wages, no health benefits, and no opportunity for growth or training. Having to work until 9:30 at night with no flexibility sucked. The worst part for me, though, was the fact that I had no supervision or support in my job--I just felt like the job was sucking as much labor out of me as possible and no one had time (or cared) to see how I was doing, or even to answer simple questions about how to do complex assignments correctly. I would often email the CEO with questions about how to do a project (because there was no one else to ask) only to get a response two days later, or not at all. I was scheduled to teach workshops without training, teach math without training, teach children without training, when I had no experience with students under 18. All of this showed an irresponsible approach to education that, frankly, shocked me. "Progress" is completely measured in students' test scores, and I was regularly encouraged to put more pressure on my students (as though more pressure would make them learn better). I completely agree with what other reviews say about poor employee treatment, especially by the CEO. People would be hired only to be fired immediately--sometimes before I could learn their names. I was never introduced to new hires or told when people were leaving, which I always thought was weird. There's also a weird perkiness/ "we love work" culture that felt super fake and gross (employees are REQUIRED to use smiley faces in emails? What?).

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3.0
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Cons

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