TCAT-McMinnville — Local services in McMinnville

Please, do not listen to the manipulative AYERS Foundation that says this place is great. Because it is the exact OPPOSITE of what they say. In my opinion, all they do is manipulate and brainwash you into thinking TCAT is great and that you should go. You shouldn’t.

Most of the reasons I have for this place being awful is based on my perspective. I went into CIT.

Main (major) reasons:

I’m writing this on my second day of being here, and already can tell this stuff ain’t for me. I am not into most of this stuff at all. Again, it’s only the second day. And i already have a personal dislike towards my instructor and amanda. I absolutely hate the way we need to get things done for one, and second, everyone in the class is in different areas, which just makes this even more stressful. I also caught my instructor and amanda talking bad behind my back, calling me names like stupid and other hateful things, even though I didn’t do anything. Very unprofessional and hurtful if you ask me. I literally cannot concentrate on my work for ONE MINUTE without people talking, yelling, or just loud noises distracting me and making me unable to even concentrate. I even tried putting on “noise cancelling earbuds” and blasting music in them and even that didn’t help. And of course, nobody cares. I forgot to lock my computer when i left for lunch , and these people literally unplugged my computer completely and made me plug it back in because of it, which was extremely annoying. (More will probably be added soon)

Not so serious, but still pretty irritating (minor) reasons:

When I came in this morning, I realized my work area has a roach infestation, which is very aggravating and disgusting. I have a bad, like really bad feeling that this is only going to get worse and worse if i stay here, which is a main reason I don’t want to be here anymore, ill find a job somewhere else, this is way too much. I also dislike the people here, simply because they are just loud and/or very distracting. The people who made our ID’s messed every single one of ours up, which just shows me that they either don’t care or don’t know what they are doing. When i came in this morning, the very first thing i did was clock in. And then my instructor literally yells at me because apparently I DIDNT sign in, and when i told her i did, I completely got ignored. This just shows me they don’t care at all about me being there. Honestly i think the AYERS foundation are just a bunch of manipulative people or brainwashers. They made TCAT sound so friendly and sound like such a great place to be or learn at, but this is almost the complete OPPOSITE of what i was expecting. I’m only two days in and can already say this is worse than my ENTIRE year of 12th grade. I literally got locked outside when i tried to come back in for lunch and it made me LATE. And apparently that was my fault. It wasn’t at all my fault, but again nobody cared or listened.

I thought on the first day it wasn’t going to be that bad, but holy, this is hell. Worst experience i’ve ever had in my whole life probably. Biggest waste of my time and my families money. If i could give zero stars, or hell even negative, I would. I highly advise if you are going into CIT, find somewhere else to attend. This place is absolutely horrible. When I leave today I ain’t coming back. And yes, I am writing this mid class.

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Two trimesters out of part-time welding evening program, graduated spring trimester 2021. Administration very nice and hard working people when it comes to enrollment and tuition. Training in review, me and my foreman (as of the time of this review, November 2021, yes, I currently hold employment in my trade). My training is completely inadequate for entry level metal fabrication. Drains a lot of time and MONEY out of my boss, foreman, and coworkers when I was hardly trained in blueprint reading summer and fall trimester 2020, during Covid shutdown, we did a rudimentary online print reading book and questions, which was general and bare minimum requirements (in lamest terms, print reading training, NOT GOOD ENOUGH), even when we returned to class, instructor, (as of when I graduated, a 21 year old kid, 2 years of experience, apprentice-level) forbid me from welding pipe or going near the machine lathe that bevels the pipe, declared that my welding is not good enough. Course also lacks fabrication training/projects to LEARN IN SCHOOL how to build things out of metal BASED ON PRINTS. Overall, I would strongly recommend PRIOR to enrolling in ANY class to chat with the instructor (LOOK at his experience and constantly ask yourself, he is going to show you how to do the trade or is he going to TEACH you how to do the profession so you can grow as a person, cause at the end of it all, I’m the person responsible for my lack of insight into not transferring my life and MONEY to a more qualified person who would actually TEACH me the trade. (Pics are merely EVIDENCE that I am a genuine graduate showing parts of the TCAT McMinnville welding shop, giving a genuine review, including selfies, guy in black shirt was my instructor, runs the part time evening welding course, his info is on TCAT McMinnville’s website under faculty and staff, good guy, lacks experience to be an instructor....

I'm currently taking industrial electricity. A lot of the same training methods utilized here are the same methods I used during AIT in the Army. Such as the Nida system. So far the staff has been more than willing to assist me in anything I've needed from books to financial aid. And my instructor has been more than willing to help me progress and learn. But this is one of those places that you only get out of this what you put into it. And as someone that did not grow up in this town or the state. It has been a wonderful experience getting to know the individuals of this community. The staff and students have all been more than welcoming and supportive. I would recommend this school from my personal...