Mamba
- 2010-01-11
Ben Taylor - or whoever you are:
Your reply is in a tone that is totally inappropriate.
If you have come here to create trouble, I suggest you take a hike, man!
Cai ni ma!
Supercat
- 2010-01-10
Ben, you have already admitted that you have never worked in Asia, so you do not really understand the horrible things that can and do happen to FT's in China and Korea.
Myself and other posters here have experienced employer abuse in Asia first hand.
It is my opinion that the educational employers in China and Korea certainly do not deserve to have any forum where they can complain about foreign teachers.
Chinese and Korean school employers are mostly "businessmen" who don't care about the quality of education their "school" provides. Most do not care about what sort of accommodation an FT will live in or how many hours they will work each week.
Chinese schools employ people called "TA's" ( teacher assistants ) , poorly trained and naive young Chinese women, usually graduates from D grade universities who can't get jobs anywhere else. They are basically useless and just a nuisance for FT's.
Another problem: DOS ( Director of Studies ) Once again, poorly trained bullies who just do whatever their corrupt Chinese bosses ask then to do. A bunch of brain dead compliance freaks who work in China so they don't have to return to their Pizza Hut jobs in the West.
This is the truth about working at schools in China Ben, at training centres anyway.
Respect is a two way street, Chinese employers must respect the rights of FT's and treat them fairly if the want any respect in return. So far Chinese employers have not earned the respect of most FT's, they have failed miserably in this regard.
Ben Taylor
- 2010-01-09
You know there is nothing like a cunning linguist to get me moved. Ok, employers have the right to exercise their opinion, where? Show me where? And where are they they treated validly? I haven't worked in Asia, only Europe and north Africa, and nobody, even the ass bandit, has tried to retain my passport.
If this forum is for new teachers they should be made aware that they will go to country A to do a job, not to have a holiday, no?
And listen, I say this, because three nights ago, my old boss, frustrated as she was, showed me some of the 'requests,' made to her to work in the EU, it was crazy? A teacher needs a shoe polisher?
I really believe that employers need to be proper in all they do, but teachers don't? My examples of awful teachers - claiming to be pregnant so as to try and persuade the boss to talk to the 'boyfriend,' and get him to pay for an abortion, threatening the bosses toddler children, claiming to have joined a local mafia...........and on to teaching, not turning up for lessons because suddenly all public transport has broken down or they were harrassed by a random.......I can continue, if you want........