Don't take my word for it

People who've worked at Hess, please feel free to post your stories here. I will also sort through my inbox and post some letters I've gotten over the months from friends who've worked at Hess.
Please feel free to post whether you've had a good or bad experience, I won't delete comments with good experiences =)

Here's a letter I recently got, pasted here with permission:
Hi Cami
Was just reading a couple of your comments on the FB HESS Feedback page, as well as a some excerpts from your Blog. Just wondering when you started with HESS as I first took it that you commenced in 2008, but some of your Blog posts are dated during 2000. Just curious to know how recent some of the information is as I'm also working for HESS and having THE WORST time of it. I commenced in XXXXXX 2008 and am still working for HESS at the XXXXXX Kindy. I absolutely hate my job and never in my life before have I ever said that about any employment I've undertaken. Would love to hear back from you as I'm seriously thinking of packing it in - sooooooon. Any advice would be muchly appreciated.

(PS I put some of the posts as 2000 because I wanted them to show up at the end of the blog- I worked at Hess in 2008 and 2009.)

Some letters from another friend, posted here with permission:
April 27 at 11:22am
.... As for how I am, kinda miserable, I hate working at hess and I want to leave as soon as possible... I'm looking in to other avenues of employment and preparing for if or when they fire me...

April 27 at 11:22am
... Oh also i know many other NSTs that aren't continuing with hess and just leaving...

April 28 at 3:09pm
Hey Cami, I'm applying for other jobs, I haven't been in to HESS this week as I just can't face it, they've been driving me crazy! Bugging me to write a script for a class of 24 SA5 low level English kids, I'm not a playwright or master director, especially to children who don't understand much of what I'm saying to them!

I came here to teach a little English and I didn't think I'd be as stressed and depressed as this, doing this kind of work! Shouldn't learning be a slightly more fun thing than listen, repeat, listen, repeat... I wanted to do many more practical things with the kids but kept on getting told no, stick to the formula. Also I've been reading up on all immersion language learning and this practice was generally considered not the best way to learn a language aqnd that was over 40 years ago!

Anyways let me know how your job search is going!?

All the best!

x

October 4 at 10:07pm
Hey xxx,
can I post some of your old leetters on my site, minus name and identifying info? I've got some retard telling me that I hated hess so much cause I'm spoiled and immature (which is probably true) but I want to show that other people hate hess too

October 5 at 2:02pm
Hey cami, yeah sure that's fine. How's you? I got two way better jobs and i'm now making much more than I was making at hess :) i'm far happier! X