This was the final bad move by a truly bad group of
IICRC leaders, that needs to be undone.
Netflix lost 800,000 subscribers last quarter for making a large business change without any interaction or communication with their clients.
IICRC does not have that many to worry about, but it is exactly the same short-sighted, arrogant move.
I assume they are on a path to try to get their entire certifying process "approved" by ANSI, by the way they keep pounding on that over and over again in that FAQ statement. If that happens, what happens to
IICRC certifications? Do they disappear? I assume they do... and I assume that is why the past leadership made this change here, to set that stage. To make it disappear in the conversation before they make it disappear in reality.
So, they have effectively killed the organization, without bothering to tell any of its supporters, or even care what they think about it.
I feel that I played a small role in helping to oust the bad leadership in
IICRC, by shining a light, and having some fun, in a way that others might not be able to due to their industry roles or jobs.
If I did not give a crap about the history of the organization, and have anger about how a few polluted and made it their own career umbilical cord of commerce, I would not waste my time. But I'm proud of my role within CFI, one of the original shareholders of
IICRC.
I'm angry because the organization needs to be fixed from within, and not with this outside change by a PR firm whose only claim to fame is they handled Elliott Spitzer. Wow. So they made him from a disgraced degenerate hypocrite into a disgraced degenerate hypocrite with a bad CNN show.
Yeah... that's the type of "talent" the service sector needs in training cleaners.
The old
IICRC leaders would hide in a corner and do nothing about controversy. Remember SOA - they did nothing with those lousy tests. (Which by the way have quietly and slowly died off...)
The new leaders should at least make a public statement acknowledging that what they've done has "upset" some of their certified cleaners and that they will at the very least, take a look at it.
That would show an organization much different than the old one.
We will see what Craig Jasper says on Procleaners tonight. I hope to see something besides "no comment."
You do not toss a decades old designation that the industry recognized, in the garbage just because one of your "leaders" wants to add Installation and have a new revenue stream of standards writing and courses.
That's the old way to doing it. I'm hoping there is a new way soon.
Lisa
P.S. Besides... the logo is clever. And when I look at the original one anyway it looked like a toilet float to me. But at least not the PR firm can say without a doubt =>
IICRC FINALLY HAS BALLS.