Walmart to Help Associates Get College Degrees

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I laugh because my brother tried not to get hired at Walmart when called into an interview while on unemployment because he wanted a less big-corp more small business job. He wore crazy mismatched plaid suiting and provided a highly unprofessional email address. He got hired as a  department manager for lawn and garden. He actually enjoyed that position for the 18 months or so he worked there.

LOL, but he should have tried harder?  I think an unprofessional email address is common.

Glad he liked it.

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Then, there are people who work at Walmart because they don't want to go to college. I'm sure many, if not most, Walmart employees qualify for almost $6,000 a year in Pell Grant money. The average CC is about $3k per year. Many public, 4-year colleges are still under $9k per year.

From firsthand experience as an instructor at a for-profit college, I learned that many students elected to pay 10X the tuition they would have paid at a CC because CCs required too much of them. Imagine how many Walmart employees won't be accepted to UF or won't want to put in the effort to meet admissions requirements.

Yeah, I felt many companies only offer the Pell amount or a little less. Originally I thought it was because working would reduce the Pell amount, and the companies were trying to make up for it, but now it makes more sense. Many people don't realize that they can get Pell, but the companies can sell it as an added benefit.

Required too much for admission, or degree requirements? Just wondering if CCs are more challenging in some way.

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They also have a 2 year expectation of continued service. If you voluntarily quit work within one year, you have to pay back 100% of what you used from the company. If you quit after a year but before two years you are required to pay back 50%.
I started going to Ashford but quit. Right now I am doing everything out of my own pocket and will continue to do so. At the beginning of next year I will use the unions tuition reimbursement. I don't want to be limited or obligated to my company.

Oh, this is significant. Smart for companies to require this.