Heald College

About 6 months ago I began my Medical Assistant Externship. We are required to complete a total of 160 hours at a clinic setting over a period of 10 weeks in order to graduate. The site I was placed in was Gonzales Medical Group, for the next few weeks I worked hard in order to complete these said hours along w 3 other classes. I did everything according to the guidelines, wrote down everything I came across such as injections, rooming patients, vital, etc., and faxed the hours I completed each week and regularly called in to check on the total of these hours but to no avail. I was never able to get ahold of the woman handeling the hours and resorted to tallying them up myself. One week before the end of the quarter my program director calls me stating that I am missing a total of 30 hours which is complete and utter nonsense because even though I am not a mathematician I think I know how to to do addition. All I can say is that I was completely devestated she informed me that I had to return to the clinic and ask to be let on board again to complete the final 30 hours in 3 days or else redo the 160 hours. I immediately called the clinic hoping for the best but the office manager was hardly ever on site, I went in person time and time again but came up short. Needless to say I cried so hard at the realization that I would have to complete another set of 160 hours all because of the misscommunication with the school. As of now I am redoing my externship with the Soledad Medical Clinic, so far I have 21 hours completed and am oh so bitter and humiliated at the fact that I tried so hard to do so good, I am even angry and frustrated with the way the school handled my dilema because not only am I redoing double the hours but I was fortunate, yes I do mean fortunate but in an obviously sarcastic way, enough to have been in an automobile accident on the way to this said clinic and am at a loss for words to describe this ordeal.

i have been a student at heald college for over a year now and have come to realize that the school is very money oriented. not just through admissions. about 8 months ago there was an admissions advisor who was "let go" his name is michael macneill. he is the person who puts on the central coast throwdown mixed martial arts fights located at a local high school here in salinas. he and his girlfriend who currently works as the LRC coordinator, Rocio Rodriguez have been running their own private business out of heald college for MONTHS NOW, and are using students and security staff to work these events. mr. macneill would advertise these fights all over school campus, he and his girlfriend both sold tickets while on the clock to both students and staff, profiting all the money and hiring students and security to work these events. i was told by mr. macneill that i would be getting paid $100 to work security at the front door, but not to say anything to anyone else working because i would be the only person getting paid. at the end of the fights after all was said and done, i asked mr. macneill and rocio were my money was and they both told me, you knew this was a volunteer event, if you dont like it you dont have to work it anymore. not only were they pulling this scam on the students, but they are also using the security hired through heald to work the events as well. since nobody was paid, nobody from the staff or student population feels they should take part in this little scandal. if you go into the student lounge, rocio rodriguez puts up flyers for every fight as well as sending out emails to students to remind them of ticket sales. mr. macneill has been doing this to students and staff that are unknowing of his plans at the end of each fight, he tells the individuals im only paying you so dont mention it to the other, this way nobody mentions anything to one another about receiving compensation for working the fight. he expects us to work a full 10 hour shift, without at least supplying as much as some food and bottled water for his workers. rocio rodriguez even has flyers posted on her wall behind her desk of each fight that has taken place. together both they have gotten students to advertise their fights promising them commission for every ticket sold and for every 100 flyers put up. im sure some of you have gotten these flyers on your windshield after coming out of your local grocery store or mall here in salinas. those flyers were put up by students who were told they would be paid but never were. each of the security workers and students that have worked the event all stated that if they knew they werent going to get paid, they would have never agreed to work the event, but being in the economy that were in, the offer presented by both mr. macneill and his girlfriend was to good to pass up at the time. i am writing this letter in hopes that heald college representatives from the local office research these fights you can even go to http://www.myspace.com/centralcoastthrowdown
and visit mr macneills upcoming events as well as previous events, im sure rocio probably even has old flyers sitting in her envoy as we speak.
i just want honest people working for a college that has honest students that shouldnt have to worry about getting screwed over like this from a staff member, especially one who was fired because of this and another that is still continuing his dirty work around campus. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP OUR SALINAS HEALD COLLEGE STUDENTS BY GETTING RID OF THESE POISINOUS LEECHES THAT WANT SOMETHING FOR NOTHING BUT YET PROMISE INCOME IN RETURN...