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barbaro · Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 17

The toddler was in Yanbu this year and recently the Dean and Vice-Dean dismissed all the students at the EGA project there. All those teachers and NO students. HaHaHaHa.. and as I understand it, he is the Regional Director for that area.

Cletus · Joined: 30 Apr 2014 Posts: 48 Location: Qassim

Barbaro... Sounds like great management to me.

barbaro · Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 17

It seems there are all kinds of underhanded things going on at EGA/INTERLINK. People should be encouraged to expose them for the people they are, (add your own derogatory term.)

saudiman · Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 23 Location: Jazan

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1270280/thumbs/o-EXTREME-COUGAR-WIVES-facebook.jpg

Is it just me or does the guy in the photo on the left bear a strange resemblance to Toddler ?

saudiman · Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 23 Location: Jazan

barbaro · Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 17

They need people who understand Management concepts and what it takes to make a company viable over the long run. They don't have it. They have no intention of getting it and when someone comes along with some vision they fire him. Viewing the long term health of the company is not valued. One guy sent out an e-mail asking
"What is our company culture. What is it that we stand for and why do we do what we do." They eventually fired the guy.
Touchy feely will only go so far. You have to have an articulated plan that people can follow. They don't. AVOID.

Skeletor · Joined: 14 Jul 2013 Posts: 20

They understand enough to keep a government contract for 3 years plus, and they give enough benefits to have a steady stream of applicants who offset the number of teachers leaving / fired.

barbaro · Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 17

EGA/Interlink and their inability or desire to prepare for the future movement of TVTC makes them the Buggy Whips of EFL.

saudiman · Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 23 Location: Jazan

It's really quite astonishing how many administrative issues this company has as a result of poor communication between its administrators and their lack of cohesive planning (visas, iqamas, late payments) given its relatively minuscule size among ESL contractors in KSA. Seriously, this company is a pygmy among giants; merely a cherry tomato, a runt of the litter if you will...a runt whose left brain has become so detached from the right brain that two totally different personalities have emerged to the point where not even the left hand knows what the right hand is doing anymore and vice-versa. I hate this maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. This way, no one gets confused.

saudiman · Joined: 26 Jun 2013 Posts: 23 Location: Jazan

TheEasyLife · Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Posts: 57

saudiman seems to have hit the nail on the head with Interlink.

The company is so poorly run it's laughable.

The people high up in the company have strange PHD standard qualifications to give them 'doctor' status from obscure online universities and their two day training sessions in Riyadh at the start of my contract was excruciatingly useless.

Skeletor · Joined: 14 Jul 2013 Posts: 20

Oh no TheEasyLife,

You didn't like the training? Was it the constant literal hand holding, the sharing of feelings, or the message from management that Interlink loves you and is your new family?

I know - you just didn't drink enough of the kool-ade.

Yasuke · Joined: 10 Jan 2014 Posts: 178

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

quagmire · Joined: 01 Sep 2010 Posts: 5

To say the least it was interesting to read these comments a decade after I was one of the original SAUDI Interlink teachers at Al-Yamamah College in Riyadh. The comment/discussion that sticks out has to do with the mental state of possible/new/current hires. A colleague from 2004 had to be escorted by US embassy staff to the airport because of his mental state, and he was sent home because of his erratic and disturbing behaviour.