u/OGgoob666

After finding out this is a 'for-profit' program all of my complaints make way more sense. It seems like IEC is one of the very few non union 'trade schools' in my area that gives a path to being licensed which is super unfortunate because this place is just a license mill. Get as many people in and passed as fast as possible, quality be damned. Now I'm sure there are instructors who do their best to give the most accurate information possible. But at the same time, they have people instructing the class on trigonometry, when he himself doesn't even know that level of math.

The curriculum structure is hot garbage. In the beginning each chapter has 3 completely unrelated subjects. So you are jumping around topics so fast it'll make your head spin. There are answers marked as correct when they are in fact wrong. The formatting of diagrams in the text book home work questions has some information cropped so you can't even work the question. You have to get the answer from the instructor. I'll speak about that more in a moment. I'm my textbook, or have to flip thru 20 full page ads before I can even get to the glossary. There are also full page ads in the middle of the chapters. The chapters at the start were like 20 pages long. Now they are 2 pages long. And they are repeating information that has already been bashed over our heads. The instructor straight up told my class that the last half of the second semester is poorly structured and it wastes everybody's time. Yayy.

This place obviously wants everyone to pass. Every trade school should right? Well they ensure that you pass by just giving you half the answers. Hell, they Nauru give you all the answers. I would mind that so much if the inductor actuality went over the questions and explained the answers. But nah, we don't have time for that.

I was attending a make up class yesterday. Which I have to pay for. Nevermind the money they get from tuition, grants, tax exemptions, advertising revenue, etc. We have to pay to make up our hrs. Anyways, this kid sitting in front of me apparently had to have emergency surgery to remove his appendix. This dude could have literally died, but they don't care. 'No excused absences'. So you mean to tell me, you could literally almost die, and if you miss too much class, no matter what, you have to repeat the year. Like seriously bro? Hearing that really sent me over the edge. This organization does not give a flying fuck about you. While this place is accredited, and recognized by my state as an organization that can help you test for your journeyman license, this place soley exists to extract money. I mean, we were literally about to take a TIMED MIDTERM EXAM, and they told us to drop everything we are doing to attend a product demonstration from fucking Ideal, even tho they told us it was 'training'.

FUCK IEC.

The thing that fucks me up is the only reason I'm doing this is so I can work prevailing wage jobs. But I am a FIRE ALARM TECHNICIAN. This complaint is more directed towards my employer. But honestly? If the benefits weren't so amazing I would probably have just left a while ago and gone with a dedicated fire alarm company.(I currently work for an electrical contractor) But that's another conversation for another time.