Office Careers provides remote training services to injured workers. These workers are referred
to Office Careers by their vocational counselors and there is no financial relationship between
the counselors and Office Careers. What's important to note is that we are not in control of the
injured workers sent to us by the counselors who are then put through our program. In fact,
since 2013 alone, over 600 students have attended Office Careers with a completion rate of
more than 75%.
A recent conversation with one of the instructors working with an injured worker featured in
your stories, was both revealing and enlightening. It suggests your stories are based on
significant misstatements, and a global misapprehension of what Office Careers is asked to
do. One of your stories focused in part on Joe Cheyney. Very little, if any part of the schooling
experience he and you both described, is factual. For example, he was in the hotel clerk
program. Not the secretarial program, as you reported. And he would have been terminated
after 4 months for lack of progress but was granted additional time (at no cost to L&I) at the
request of his counselor because he claimed medical issues and learning disabilities were
slowing his progress. Basically, he misexplained/misidentified material aspects of the
educational process filmed for the stories and yet you included that as “the truth.”
While it’s not required, Office Careers will help injured workers prepare to take the GED
exam. Office Careers is not responsible for nor does it help injured workers with resumes,
applications and the job search process.
We are opening cooperating with the Workforce Board’s “inspection of school operations,” and
will continue to do so in order to get back to serving our trainees 100 percent of the
time. Assisting injured workers is our top priority.