Huntington Learning Centers reviews

Weekly hours fluctuate dramatically, so HLC only provides a supplementary source of income. The owners of my franchise do not compensate employees very well. You start at a mere 14$/hour (note that they require a university degree for employment) while owners/management charge the customers 45-50$ per hour for tutoring; meanwhile, you do all the work while, often, the owners don't even bother to come in. The owners and management have no shame. They will nickel and dime you, and the customer, at every opportunity. If you accidentally go over time on your tutoring session, if you need to clean up or fill out paperwork after your prescribed time has ended, they will refuse to pay you (even though you were carrying out required job duties). I have never finished on time-- given the amount of paperwork and preparation necessary to fulfill your duties. Everyday I have worked, I've had to give 5-20 minutes of unpaid labor. The owners of my franchise also require customers to pay the full cost of their tutoring session if the student missed their appointment, rather than simply charging a missed-appointment fee. However, they send the tutor home immediately with a half-hour of pay. The result is 90 - 100$ in revenue (for a typical 2 hour session) and 7$ in wages. That means, they profit most when students don't show up. The management at my franchise also delights in assigning students to teachers for subjects in which the teacher has no expertise. They required me to tutor several kids in relatively advanced subjects, even after I professed to have no knowledge of the subject what so ever. Imagine paying 50$/hour to receive piano lessons, and your teacher never touched a piano before in his/her life.

Pay is low - barely above minimum wage for tutors, most of whom have teaching licenses and sometimes graduate degrees. And they hide from p/t staff who have been there a long time with little or no raises that they are attracting new staff by paying them higher wages then the "veteran tutors". Place is badly mismanaged due to constant staff (and even management) turnover caused by low pay and inconsistent policies that change as management changes. Too often tutors came only to find out their student had cancelled and overworked, overpressured management forgot to call and let them know. Now all of the NYC area "corporate owned" centers are being franchised which has caused even more chaos. Corporate greed requires many centers to be open on Sundays, but there is no management on Sundays, causing a lot of chaotic situations. Centers are often open about 2 hours later than they should be again due to 'greed', what happens is the center will often have just 2 students for the last 1-2 hours and if one of them cancels, the tutor of the cancelled student has to stay (with pay however) so that (per company rules) there are two adults present to close the center for the night. The fundamentals of how the company works are sound and if done right the business would be highly successful, however, overt greed and gross mismanagement has long poisoned the potential of this company.