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[elaine.adams216]

Forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I'm a newbie so any help is appreciated.

I have been invited to a "workshop" after having had an interview for a teaching job in the new Rome John Peter Sloane school, they already have one in Milan.

I would be grateful to have any feedback for people who already work for this company, particularly as regarding salary.

I am waiting for an email from them with full details of this workshop, I don't even know if they will pay me for this. I, like many others here in Italy, am fed up with being called to onerous interviews, where the employer demands super-qualified people and want to pay them a pittance. I don't want to waste their time or mine. HELP!!

[elaine.adams216]

Well, here's the latest news:

I received an email with details of the 3 day workshop, including no fewer than 9 attachments with didactic material to study, and an exercise in role-playing to prepare, of dubvious political correctness, using phrasal verbs.

Not only are these three days not paid, but you are required to pay 20 euros for the didactic material they give you the first day, but "(a tal proposito riceverete successivamente regolare fattura di quietanza)." If my Italian is correct, this means you will subsequently receive regular bills!

An email requesting information regarding Terms and Conditions, hours, salary etc, before committing myself to a day's preparation work, 3 days workshop with no guarantee of actually getting the job, and risking wasting both my time and theirs, has up to now, been ignored.

I telephoned and was told that the lady answering did not know anything about salaries, but was very well informed regarding the 20 euros contribution and no guarantee of employment.

I would love to have anyone's thoughts on this - am I being too demanding, is it just the usual cavalier attitude to our profession, or is this some kind of scam?

Oh, by the way, I had already had an interview back in December.