sell me on working for FCPS in Gatehouse role

[Anonymous]

have kids in system. hate current private sector job. pay is a match, private sector benefits way better in terms of time-off/healthcare. but FCPS has pension and some retiree health option though it sounds not as great as people want to pretend it is.

what is awesome about being an FCPS employee that I might be missing?

[Anonymous]

Nothing. Many of us do it because we think public service is important. Figure out if that is important to you and decide.

[Anonymous]

There isn't an enormous amount of respect for Gatehouse employees. The general perception is that people at Gatehouse "failed up" (i.e., many were senior administrators who weren't setting the world on fire in school-based positions, and were given administrative roles where they'd cause less damage to students).

I'm sure that's not entirely fair, but you should know that going in. Some of the more public-facing Gatehouse employees have been disasters, such as the IT head they finally had to let go last year, and the guy in charge of facilities and transportation services, who is totally incompetent. Seems like the best positions there are probably the specialist positions that don't involve dealing with the public, but only with teachers, principals and other Gatehouse employees.

[Anonymous]

Gatehouse should be laying off people, not hiring. Too much redundancy and fat there. Ineffective and incompetent. The students and parents would be better served if Gatehouse was downsized by half and a new school board was elected.

[Anonymous]

Do it only if you can take it down from the inside.

[Anonymous]

It's disgraceful how they ignore the facilities needs of so many schools while working in a spacious, modern building. Gatehouse should be used as a school, and Brabrand and his minions should be the ones working out of trailers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gatehouse should be laying off people, not hiring. Too much redundancy and fat there. Ineffective and incompetent. The students and parents would be better served if Gatehouse was downsized by half and a new school board was elected.

+1. With the exception of some of the IT roles, there are basically two groups of people who go to Gatehouse: the first group is almost entirely former teachers, especially SPED, who were really good at the job but burned out. I don't blame them because it's definitely a sweeter gig and they were woefully underpaid for the amount of work and crap they had to deal with on the job. The other group is the people who "failed up" as described by a PP. Gatehouse should keep the first group and fire the second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gatehouse should be laying off people, not hiring. Too much redundancy and fat there. Ineffective and incompetent. The students and parents would be better served if Gatehouse was downsized by half and a new school board was elected.

Look at the numbers and budget and you will see this is just one of those things people like to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gatehouse should be laying off people, not hiring. Too much redundancy and fat there. Ineffective and incompetent. The students and parents would be better served if Gatehouse was downsized by half and a new school board was elected.

Look at the numbers and budget and you will see this is just one of those things people like to say.

NP. They say it a lot on this forum. I don't think they want to know that the numbers prove them wrong.

[Anonymous]

I have never met a useful person at Gatehouse and I think that work environment would be awful.

[Anonymous]

If you are looking to work in HR/benefits/salary....really anything on the non-former teacher sidr, please do if you are actually competent and answer emails. Although I would guess that if you did actually get the job done, you’d be miserable as you’d be surrounded by incompetent nincompoops. Sorry, school personnel do not think very highly of Gatehouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are looking to work in HR/benefits/salary....really anything on the non-former teacher sidr, please do if you are actually competent and answer emails. Although I would guess that if you did actually get the job done, you’d be miserable as you’d be surrounded by incompetent nincompoops. Sorry, school personnel do not think very highly of Gatehouse.

I’m a classroom monitor and was shocked how bad the whole hiring process was compared to my private sector experience. School-based staff are much more reliable.

[Anonymous]

Pension and benefits were much better for Legacy and Tier 1 compared to the plan available now. Gatehouse is political and bureaucratic. A few bad apples spoiling the image, especially at the top. What position are you applying for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are looking to work in HR/benefits/salary....really anything on the non-former teacher sidr, please do if you are actually competent and answer emails. Although I would guess that if you did actually get the job done, you’d be miserable as you’d be surrounded by incompetent nincompoops. Sorry, school personnel do not think very highly of Gatehouse.

I’m a classroom monitor and was shocked how bad the whole hiring process was compared to my private sector experience. School-based staff are much more reliable.

Years ago the sub office was a mess in hiring. I imagine it’s the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are looking to work in HR/benefits/salary....really anything on the non-former teacher sidr, please do if you are actually competent and answer emails. Although I would guess that if you did actually get the job done, you’d be miserable as you’d be surrounded by incompetent nincompoops. Sorry, school personnel do not think very highly of Gatehouse.

I’m a classroom monitor and was shocked how bad the whole hiring process was compared to my private sector experience. School-based staff are much more reliable.

Years ago the sub office was a mess in hiring. I imagine it’s the same.

Yes, I have a co-worker whose adult child (college grad) tried to get a sub job this fall, when FCPS was desperate. HR never called the applicant back...