r/SYEP

Anyone in this provider heard back from them? It’s almost 3 weeks since orientation and I haven’t heard anything. I tried emailing them also no response.

Waited on line yesterday at my provider for 2.5 hrs, was told ~30-40 diff job titles with no details and had to pick one quickly. After I picked my site I got handed the specific address and was sent off, so I found out too late that its a bit of a difficult/distant commute for me.

I emailed immediately asking to swap. They responded a day later about an available option and I replied in under 2 min. 6 hrs later they replied again saying the job got taken during today's placement event (which started hours AFTER I replied) and now there's nothing left.

I know spots fill quickly ofc, but I'm just upset that I DID go early and was given zero info in a very rushed process. I have no idea why they couldn't have just done this online or at least posted the options beforehand. This is my first time doing SYEP so idk if this is standard protocol.

Vent aside, I'm stuck with a worksite that's just not even really worth commuting for. Is there any chance of getting a spot elsewhere if I wait? Should I suck it up and do it anyway, or would I be better off trying to find a summer job outside of SYEP?

Hi yall I applied to work at the nypd precinct this summee through the police athletic league. Does anyone know if they started to accept all the people and if I have a chance? Thanks

I have finished hats and ladders. Does anyone know when orientation starts? I didn't get an email or anything as of yet

I got enrolled late for this summer but my provider they selected says they’re not accepting anymore applications, will I still be able to get a job?

My application got submitted. I keep checking back on my email and on the website to see if anything changes but it's just the same.

Also to add on, I've tried signing up for direct deposit but it keeps sending me back to the sign in page. I even tried going to different browsers and it's still the same.... Is there something wrong with their end? This is my first time doing SYEP in NYC so I'm not sure what's supposed to be happening.

Reposting this Reddit Post from 2 months ago. Please spread the information about this to people you know that is going to be a SYEP Participant at a worksite soon. There are new information that I have included that wasn’t there before.

As you all know, SYEP will be starting very quickly soon in July. You will split into either Cohort A or B.

Many SYEP participants while working at their worksites generally don’t report the horrible issues they experience at their worksites by their supervisors or other co-workers.

Such as:

- Your supervisor tells you to do anything that is not in the job description of your role. That also includes telling you to leave to go somewhere else that is not related to the work of your job description

- Acting passive aggressively

- Making you feel uncomfortable in any way like standing too close to you, touching you where you don’t want to be touched, etc.

- Yelling at you. Verbal and emotional abusing you

- Not communicating clearly and enough with you leading to many misunderstandings and confusions

- Talking about political beliefs and their beliefs offends you. Any beliefs that made you uncomfortable or make you angry while during work hours has to be reported immediately

- Telling you that you owe them hours and they authorize your 25 hours per week by falsifying your timesheet even though you didn’t work 25 hours for those weeks so you need to stay back after the 6 weeks to pay back your debt to them

- Collecting personal information from you like your ID, social security, etc. Only give them these if they are planning to give you a permanent job offer after the 6 weeks are over!

Beginning and during the 6 weeks, they are not allowed to ask you for your personal information! Read up on I-9 verification on the USCIS website when you are offered a permanent job because many employers on purposely ask for more documents than what is necessary to steal your personal information.

- Asking you to stay after the 6 weeks to help them with their work without paying you. There is no such thing as free labor. Any work you do that benefits the worksite and during the worksite’s business hours after the 6 weeks ends, you are to be paid by your worksite. SYEP does not pay you anymore after the 6 weeks of the program ends! You are only paid for 6 weeks worth of work at most!

- Making or manipulating you to stay later than your scheduled hours.

- Gives you no break if you worked 6 or more hours. Legally they are required to give you 30 mins break if you are working 6 or 7 hours that day and 1 hour break if you are working more than 7 hours that day. The breaks are unpaid.

- Any supervisor or co-worker retaliating against for addressing issues that you noticed

- One of your co-workers that is a SYEP participants too, is bullying you and causing you problems to the point where you hate going to this worksite.

- Your coworker doesn’t do anything and you are always end up doing the work for them. You are not obligated to pick up after them

- Other similar issues like the ones I listed

You need to report these kind of issues, so you can be sent to a new worksite. It is for your safety and the safety of future participants. If your SYEP provider doesn’t know about it, then they will assume everything went well and they will keep working with those worksites in the future. Your SYEP provider needs to know everything that is going on at your worksite to see if they should work with them again in the future. Hold these worksites and other co-workers accountable for their actions especially the moment you know that something is off. Listen to that feeling.

I know many of you are afraid of reporting your worksite who have done something wrong and the idea of switching to a different worksite sound bad, but your goal in SYEP is to get a job you enjoy doing and where you had actually learned something.

Once a week, there is one SYEP Site Monitor that arrives at your worksite to inspect any issues that you may have, so please report any issues, concerns, and questions to them as they will report the issues on your behalf. Everything you say will be confidential and anonymous. You can speak with them privately. If you prefer to email your SYEP provider instead, you can do that too. Make sure to have proof of your claims otherwise there is no case.

So please report any issues that immediately happens to you, otherwise you will be stuck in that worksite with that supervisor and co-worker for the next 6 weeks. Which is going to be hell. Make your summer job as comfortable as possible and not to have memories where your supervisor or co-workers who was acting like an asshole or a bitch.

Please remember, for the 6 weeks, you are paid by the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, not your worksite!

Afternoon. I’m coming here to highlight an issue that I don’t really know how to navigate. Someone I recently dated was arrested for assaulting me and was charged with several counts of harassment and assault. The law seldom does its job and this is someone who scams their home attendant job by faking and forging hours. By having SYEP placement he’d be making double income and honestly I just don’t think someone who’s capable of putting someone in the hospital deserves a job working with kids. If he’s already been accepted and submitted all the documents is there anything I can do to make sure he doesn’t get placement. I know you have to register if you have any criminal charges but it’s cutting it close to June. I tried calling and all they gave me was a email.

This person is dangerous, they don’t need to be around younger people and a second job regardless of how hard things are simply isn’t fair to the people who really do need it. Any REAL advice would be appreciated.

"Something went wrong during verification. Please share this with your YEC: Too many simultaneous invocations: Spreadsheets"

If you are getting this issue, or any other issue similar to this, it's because there are too many SYEP applicants at once in the application.

Surprisingly, their capacity was not designed to handle this many users at once, so the best option we have is to wait until whoever is in charge of the backend needs to add rate limiters or upgrade their capacity.

Hi all , so my primary provider jsut emailed saying the entire syep lottery is over is this true and if not how can I reach out to my alternative providers on the syep portal it only shows me the primary

With the form being inaccessible for 40 minutes, and then failing to submit even after I got in. My first choices are all getting filled up while my form is paused. Is SYEP UAU normally like this?

For anyone who has Cpc as their provider. Do you know when we will get the job placement selection forms?

I'm seeing everyone talk about the online work forms but I haven't received an email from my providers about mine

Anyone else having issues logging in to the UAU Job Placement form??

I got this error: Something went wrong during verification. Please share this with your YEC: Too many simultaneous invocations: Spreadsheets

Any consequences to quitting in middle of summer? ( A program to go to in August ).

Should I tell them beforehand, or are there any consequences.

Still no job assigned yet.

hi everyone!

i just got accepted for infinity SYEP last week! does anyone know if infinity (provider) has any virtual options or options in midtown manhattan area? where are the summer camps typically located? i live a pretty far commute from most of the city and would love to know more details about the sites available.

is anyone a part of older youth at infinity or has anyone in infinity done orientation and job fair yet?

additionally, is it a 40 hour work week typically because I'm seeing SYEP is more part-time online.

thank you !!

I was waiting for the moment to finally go to my job fair hosted by my provider (B&G Club of Metro Queens) this Friday, only for them to say that it's canceled and that they're moving to a digital format. Last year it was in-person, and it was an experience to speak with the supervisors of these worksites. I wonder what made them go virtual this year? Perhaps with the amount of interns that applied? They said it was over 600.​ 🫢 I'm wondering, are your job fairs still going on in-person? Or has it always been digital?

As a PSA.

If you completed your hats and ladders and were given a job fair date thats way near or in June.

Call your provider and ask for a earlier date. Or say you can't make "this date". Don't accept the lastest date possible and end up with the last pickings.

I’m just wondering if I will have to go in and physically pick my job site bc I might not be able to.