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CANDLES
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DLIguy....
You made me laugh out loud....So very TRUE..same with women who think that being in Saudi is the next best thing to Heaven!.... 
They must be meeting these men!  |
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fledex
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66be.... please
EDEX put teachers in apartment hotels and tried to put them in similar ones in the middle of nowhere or near the motorways, which if the teachers chose to, they had to cross the major road to get to the supermarket. Because of this EDEX provided a weekly shopping trip bus.
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Don't forget the teacher who worked for them in Najran (2011) and got killed crossing the motorway in front of the hotel accommodation. Edex isn't a pretty company. |
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lcanupp1964
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Grendal's comments are spot-on. I think the longer some of us are in KSA (I've been here almost five years), the more cynical we become. I'm not referring to anyone here on this post, but I think we all could be more open-minded and positive. I really do feel that if you are the kind of person that tries to make the best of your experience and sees the glass as "half-full", then you should do fine. I wouldn't work for EdEx - too many bad things have been posted about them in the past, but I would if it was the only hope to get a teaching job (gee, am I being cynical  ). |
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johnslat
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"Last edited by Grendal on Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:16 pm; edited 7 times in total"
Gosh, things must be always changing fast over there.
Regards,
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robbie_davies
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| CANDLES wrote: |
66be.... please
EDEX put teachers in apartment hotels and tried to put them in similar ones in the middle of nowhere or near the motorways, which if the teachers chose to, they had to cross the major road to get to the supermarket. Because of this EDEX provided a weekly shopping trip bus.
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Don't forget the teacher who worked for them in Najran (2011) and got killed crossing the motorway in front of the hotel accommodation. Edex isn't a pretty company. |
I knew the gentleman concerned and in all fairness, his death had nothing to do with edex. However, the resulting fracas post-death showed EdEx in a very bad light.
RIP R.S. |
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plumpy nut
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Don't forget the teacher who worked for them in Najran (2011) and got killed crossing the motorway in front of the hotel accommodation. Edex isn't a pretty company. |
Not only EdEx, it's happened other times with other companies as well. |
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66be
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:30 am Post subject: Edex/Contractors |
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| Open-minded and Positive that is what is missing sometimes on this site. I sometimes wonder if the post about Edex is really about just one person - and therefore not relevant to the question. I suspect there are quite a few genuine people working at Edex who are doing there best and I know there are some very good, well educated teachers who work for Edex because it is their choice and not because they have no choice. So come on people - think about these new teachers who have signed contracts and are going to SA for the first time - give them some Open-minded and Positive advice as well as pointing out the pitfalls of working for Contractors (any) because basically there is not much to pick between the lot of them |
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CANDLES
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Not it isn't my friend!
People will work in any conditions in every industry for this thing called 'money'. ESL is not an elitist field- it's a job, like any other, so people put up with negative things and that's one of them.
Please read my up to date comment regarding this. |
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fledex
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| CANDLES wrote: |
66be.... please
EDEX put teachers in apartment hotels and tried to put them in similar ones in the middle of nowhere or near the motorways, which if the teachers chose to, they had to cross the major road to get to the supermarket. Because of this EDEX provided a weekly shopping trip bus.
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Don't forget the teacher who worked for them in Najran (2011) and got killed crossing the motorway in front of the hotel accommodation. Edex isn't a pretty company. |
I knew the gentleman concerned and in all fairness, his death had nothing to do with edex. However, the resulting fracas post-death showed EdEx in a very bad light.
RIP R.S. |
In all fairness, I lived in the same hotel the year before. Two teachers had their rooms broken into that year. Both times, the teacher was in the room and chased the intruder away. Once, it was a hotel employee, the other time it was a driver following the teacher to his room. Neither incident happened for the purpose of theft.
And yes, I was there the day after the accident. Edex was doing nothing for the first couple days at least. |
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Grendal
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| fledex wrote: |
| robbie_davies wrote: |
| fledex wrote: |
| CANDLES wrote: |
66be.... please
EDEX put teachers in apartment hotels and tried to put them in similar ones in the middle of nowhere or near the motorways, which if the teachers chose to, they had to cross the major road to get to the supermarket. Because of this EDEX provided a weekly shopping trip bus.
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Don't forget the teacher who worked for them in Najran (2011) and got killed crossing the motorway in front of the hotel accommodation. Edex isn't a pretty company. |
I knew the gentleman concerned and in all fairness, his death had nothing to do with edex. However, the resulting fracas post-death showed EdEx in a very bad light.
RIP R.S. |
In all fairness, I lived in the same hotel the year before. Two teachers had their rooms broken into that year. Both times, the teacher was in the room and chased the intruder away. Once, it was a hotel employee, the other time it was a driver following the teacher to his room. Neither incident happened for the purpose of theft.
And yes, I was there the day after the accident. Edex was doing nothing for the first couple days at least. |
the other time it was a driver following the teacher to his room. Neither incident happened for the purpose of theft.
The gender referred to in this statement is not surprising. Only one thing I want to clear up. Is it a typo?
Grendal |
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fledex
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No typo Grendal: it's the correct gender specific possessive pronoun (is there such a thing as a 3rd person male determiner or just the pronoun?). In Arabic it would be a tougher gender suppletive genetive, but as you say the incident is not that unusual in Saudi.
The second incident would have used the gender neutral first person plural determiner: "Kendi" is the Turkish etymology of that possessive form. It all brings back a horrible memory. Don't want to go into it. |
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robbie_davies
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| fledex wrote: |
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| fledex wrote: |
| CANDLES wrote: |
66be.... please
EDEX put teachers in apartment hotels and tried to put them in similar ones in the middle of nowhere or near the motorways, which if the teachers chose to, they had to cross the major road to get to the supermarket. Because of this EDEX provided a weekly shopping trip bus.
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Don't forget the teacher who worked for them in Najran (2011) and got killed crossing the motorway in front of the hotel accommodation. Edex isn't a pretty company. |
I knew the gentleman concerned and in all fairness, his death had nothing to do with edex. However, the resulting fracas post-death showed EdEx in a very bad light.
RIP R.S. |
And yes, I was there the day after the accident. Edex was doing nothing for the first couple days at least. |
You were in Najran a couple of days after the death of R.S?
Send me a PM because you will know who I am.
You are one of the following: K.T, C.H, S.A, A.O, J.D, K.D, A.K, L.S, Buzz or Big fat AG - if you are none of those then you weren't there - or not in the aftermath of the death of R.S. |
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CANDLES
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Oh dear!....
R. I. P and that should be the end of that saga!
It hasn't got any better with EDEX or ICEAT - still in the wilderness and taking the bus at the Godforsaken time of 6am onwards..... & crossing the highway to get to the supermarket.
What a load of rubbish!! And where does the money go which these companies are ripping off us!!! In their pockets!
I wanna go home.....  |
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teachr11
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Oh dear!....
It hasn't got any better with EDEX or ICEAT - still in the wilderness and taking the bus at the Godforsaken time of 6am onwards..... & crossing the highway to get to the supermarket.
What a load of rubbish!! And where does the money go which these companies are ripping off us!!! In their pockets!
I wanna go home..... |
Do you like the "luxury" accommodation? |
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CANDLES
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Love it!!!!! But still wanna be home....in my own bed!!!
Enough of this..... I want OUT! |
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