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posted by takyon on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the transfer-time dept.

Today, ITT Educational Services, Inc. (ITT) announced that it is closing all of its ITT Technical Institute campuses. For most of the world, that news will be covered as a business story or a political one, but I know that for you it is deeply personal. You are probably wondering what this means for your future; how it is going to affect your finances and your ability to continue your education.

In recent years, ITT has increasingly been the subject of numerous state and federal investigations. In August, ITT's accreditor, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) determined that ITT "is not in compliance, and is unlikely to become in compliance with [ACICS] Accreditation Criteria." This came amid increasingly heightened financial oversight measures put in place by the Department over the past two years due to significant concerns about ITT's administrative capacity, organizational integrity, financial viability, and ability to serve students.

[...] Whatever you choose to do, do not give up on your education. Higher education remains the clearest path to economic opportunity and security. Restarting or continuing your education at a high-quality, reputable institution may feel like a setback today, but odds are it will pay off in the long run. There are people and tools – like our College Scorecard – out there to help you pick a program that gives you a real shot at success.

I am proud of your hard work and dedication, and we will do all we can to continue to provide information to you on your options.

Sincerely,

John B. King Jr., U.S. Secretary of Education

Source: Department of Education


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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:35AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:35AM (#398551)

    The quality of people from ITT Tech was pretty astounding too. We hired one (in spite of my protestations based upon the technical part of the interview) and the stupid bastard couldn't explain the difference between tcp and udp to me. For a network related support position. NETWORKING WAS HIS FUCKING FOCUS IN SCHOOL.

    Eventually we got to the point where I just asked him to explain to me "everything he knew about networking," with whatever that meant to him being totally valid discussion material. I was responsible for training the dumbshit and I figured I might as well have a fun story to hand off to his manager when I was done. I don't remember exactly what he said, but I recall he got through mangled bits and pieces of an explanation of http and dns, and that was about it. I'm not sure if the guy was actually retarded, didn't even care enough to be able to pretend, or what.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:45AM (#398555)

    We had a saying 25 years ago when I went to college. (fuck I am getting old...)

    If you cant hack university there is always community college if you cant hack that there is always ITT.

    I had considered it here and there for a class or two. But usually just ended up self learning anyway. Like I was taught at university.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:49AM (#398559)

    UDP is the "Unreliable Datagram Protocol" because datagram delivery isn't guaranteed like segments of a TCP stream. Not only do I know the difference between TCP and UDP, I've debugged a System V STREAMS driver too. It's pretty obvious why nobody uses STREAMS anymore, way too much overhead complexity.

    It's also clear to me that I know too much and you only hire dumbshits. Fuck you very much, job creator!

  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday September 07 2016, @05:32AM

    by mendax (2840) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @05:32AM (#398575)

    I'm only a lowly programmer and even I know the difference between UDP and TCP. Of course, this is perhaps because I'm written some code that has used BSD sockets. But geez! This is incredible.

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    • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:53PM

      by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:53PM (#398666)

      Well, that job was something else. Officially, we were actually providing support for low latency market data systems; Software developed in-house. However, in reality we were doing just as much Solaris/Linux support and network troubleshooting as we were actual software support.

      It's so damned hard to find anyone around here who had the perfect combination of a frightening amount of knowledge and desperate enough to work for peanuts that often times we'd take on anyone we could get, just on the off chance that they'd pan out when we (I) trained them. Of the probably 20 or so interviews I sat in on for the technical part of the interview, there were probably about 2 people that I actually liked enough to give the thumbs up for initially. Of those 20 or so, we hired 5 of them, including my 2. I guess to be fair enough to the system, all but that one moron worked out well enough that we kept them on, but I think they're all still doing first level support except the 2 I gave the thumbs up to. One of them left after about 4 years for a better job, the other one got a promotion to what was basically my "lead escalation" position after I left for QA.

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