Originally Posted by huzaifa47

WOAH I stopped believing this after I read that!

Seriously?

Soooo you made an account; made a LONG LONG post on Macinsiders just to support the your company. WOW you really love them I guess :S I only wish other workers had such strong & loyal views about their employers!

A facebook search reveals nothing as well!

I really apologize if you are actually saying the truth but this looks sort of wierd to my spidey sense: The 2000 applicants part :S

I apologize, let me rephrase. I believe there were around 2000 applicants from universities all across Ontario, not just McMaster. I've met other managers from UofT, Waterloo, Western, Laurier, Brock, Windsor, Ryerson, Guelph...

I really am just a long time lurker of Macinsiders and I'm really just trying to shed insight from a different point of view since there have been negative experiences, along with positive experiences like my own.

Take it for what it is, and like I said, if you have questions, I'm more than happy to answer as I'm a student myself. (I actually should be studying for my midterm right now...lol)

Originally Posted by jessicayu

I apologize, let me rephrase. I believe there were around 2000 applicants from universities all across Ontario, not just McMaster. I've met other managers from UofT, Waterloo, Western, Laurier, Brock, Windsor, Ryerson, Guelph...

I really am just a long time lurker of Macinsiders and I'm really just trying to shed insight from a different point of view since there have been negative experiences, along with positive experiences like my own.

Take it for what it is, and like I said, if you have questions, I'm more than happy to answer as I'm a student myself. (I actually should be studying for my midterm right now...lol)

You can't "lurk" MI without an account. You're only allowed to view the first page without an account. You can't really expect us to believe you.

Originally Posted by lawleypop

You can't "lurk" MI without an account. You're only allowed to view the first page without an account. You can't really expect us to believe you.

Exactly! Sometimes I get lazy while I'm at mills(plus I have this wierd theory that people have installed keyloggers in there) and I don't login and just browse Insiders for a bit...it tells me to register after like a few pages :S

Originally Posted by jessicayu

I guess our interpretations of lurking is different. When i lurk onto this site, I really come on to look at the latest events and not for more than 10 mins at a time with which, I believe for a year now, I've been able to do with a guest account. I understand you're an "elite member" of this forum with your post count total of over 800 posts so you do a lot more than just "lurking". Nonetheless, I don't mean any offense to you lawleypop, but I am indeed able to come onto Macinsiders without registering an account.

lol okay a solution: Do you have facebook? If so: What is your profile link? Because I can't find you by searching obviously. If you know enough people at Mac the Forum would agree you are for real!

Originally Posted by jessicayu

LOL umm... this is going out of hand. I just wanted to share my experience, not get searched up on facebook (please don't take that offensively).

Anyways, I feel like I really shouldn't have to validate my identity. I shall go back to studying...

Oh Of course you did!

Good Luck with your "Friday" midterm

I personally worked as a window cleaner for action windows (same as college pro) for the first few weeks of the summer, and then quit (as well as my two other team members) because of some problems with my manager. I enjoyed working with my team, but there were several things I did not agree with regarding the way that my manager ran her business.

However, I ended up working for a second manager more recently, with a very different, much more enjoyable experience.

So really, I think that working as a painter or a window cleaning tech really can be a fun job, but it depends completely on who your manager is. I was lucky enough to get out of the negative situation, underpaid, but with another, non-window cleaning job to go to for most of the remainder of the summer.

So, I really have mixed opinions about it. If you want to work as a technician/painter, I'd recommend trying to talk to people who worked for that manager the year before, so you can learn whether that manager was fair or not to their employees.

(and if anyone would like the name or stories of either of my two managers, I'd be more than willing to share...I'd rather no one go through the horrible experience I did with my first manager.)

Originally Posted by jessicayu

LOL umm... this is going out of hand. I just wanted to share my experience, not get searched up on facebook (please don't take that offensively).

Anyways, I feel like I really shouldn't have to validate my identity. I shall go back to studying...

If you actually went to this school, you wouldn't mind getting searched up on Facebook. You know why this sentence doesn't make sense? Because you "don't wanna get searched up on facebook," yet you make an account username that would SEEM like you had a valid identity.

Who makes a username with a full name and doesn't want to get searched on facebook?

Why wouldn't you have to validate your identity? You're one of two people on this thread that have given a good review about CP and like the other person, your account was created yesterday. And you have one post.

Come on. If you ARE in university, I know you can follow this logic.

It definitely wouldn't surprise me if they hired people specifically to try to control the bad opinions people throw around all over the place. Interesting how College Pro doesn't allow commenting on their youtube videos... it's because they know that they are generally hated by anyone who knows anything about how they work... it's only the insiders who have a stake in the company's future and therefore have a reason to try to prop it up.

I have never liked a company/business/employer so much that I would go to these means to defend them on the internet, especially anonymously.

I don't believe that crap about "I was lucky enough to get a job with them!" THEY DON'T TURN ANYONE DOWN. They literally take ANYONE. It doesn't matter how many people apply, they will ALL get accepted.

Lawley makes a good point. Why make an account on MacInsiders with your full name as the account name, then say you don't want to be searched on Facebook because it's too personal? Makes no sense..

Let me clarify a little bit about painting franchises.

As a franchise manager, i ALWAYS fufilled my duties and ALWAYS paid my painters. Now, as far as being a painter and NOT a franchise manager for one of these companies, thats OK, but be weary of your manager! I had my best buddy work as my painter, I paid him very well, I paid him for every hour he worked, and I always worked with him. It was MY responsibility for him to be paid, NOT the company's.

however, STAY AWAY from signing on to a franchise, this is where they will screw you over.

Well I did go to the MSU office and had a small chat with the VP Admin Andrew Richardson and told him about the Macinsiders discussion(@ SRA members who were previously anti-Insiders; Need more proof? ) and how they specifically target the naive First Years and the pamphlets and signup sheets passed around during classes don't really reveal the true state of affairs. Nor do the agents at the table. I requested two things: a) Lobby MUSC To Ban them and for Registars office to email the profs not to let them speak/distribute stuff in class b) I also thought option a might be rather harsh so I also suggested that the MSU advises these companies to be more upfront about the realities of their job and not to concentrate too much about the Earn $10,000 figure! I read on some other forum that only around 2-5% of Managers have ever been able to reach that amount :S Hence the MSU should lobby these companies to be more transparent and let the people know what they are really getting into!

Andrew seemed pretty open to the idea and agreed that he isn't a big fan of their marketing style either(having been here 6 years) andd he'll bring it up in the next Exec Board Meeting!


The MSU does have a policy regarding environmental ethics but nothing in particular that might apply to such issues. But being on operations I can look into that

p.s: Hey atleast they aren't AS BAD as the company a few years ago(now banned) that sent a Mac Kid to South America and he never returned!

Originally Posted by huzaifa47

Well I did go to the MSU office and had a small chat with the VP Admin Andrew Richardson and told him about the Macinsiders discussion(@ SRA members who were previously anti-Insiders; Need more proof? ) and how they specifically target the naive First Years and the pamphlets and signup sheets passed around during classes don't really reveal the true state of affairs. Nor do the agents at the table. I requested two things: a) Lobby MUSC To Ban them and for Registars office to email the profs not to let them speak/distribute stuff in class b) I also thought option a might be rather harsh so I also suggested that the MSU advises these companies to be more upfront about the realities of their job and not to concentrate too much about the Earn $10,000 figure! I read on some other forum that only around 2-5% of Managers have ever been able to reach that amount :S Hence the MSU should lobby these companies to be more transparent and let the people know what they are really getting into!

Andrew seemed pretty open to the idea and agreed that he isn't a big fan of their marketing style either(having been here 6 years) andd he'll bring it up in the next Exec Board Meeting!


The MSU does have a policy regarding environmental ethics but nothing in particular that might apply to such issues. But being on operations I can look into that

p.s: Hey atleast they aren't AS BAD as the company a few years ago(now banned) that sent a Mac Kid to South America and he never returned!

Uh, what? Are you kidding about the last part? I tried googling it, but nothing came up. Give us details (or a news article) O_O