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[No Place Like Home]

What I find most disturbing in this and other threads slamming TTC and its organisation, is that people are full of criticisms about how e.g. management or certain colleagues behave, yet feel it is ok to openly discuss on a PUBLIC forum viewed by thousands of readers an individual's qualities, qualifications, even sexual preferences.

Whilst there is no love lost between myself and certain members of TTC, having had the misfortune to cross paths and be seriously stitched up by one of your beloved HoDs 4 years ago, I cannot believe the things I have read here.

And perhaps I might be so bold as to suggest that GIZ may no longer feel it wishes to be associated with the attitude, behaviour and general atmosphere which one gets some kind of idea of from these discussions.

Please consider what you say about people and the consequences of such slanderous and unnecessary information!

[leggeymountbatten]

No Place Like Home - Can you be more specific??

[No Place Like Home]

Fortunately, it appears that the worst such thread has been removed since I last read it. But there are still others floating around if you take the time to look back through the forum. I do not have to be more specific.

Having been on the receiving end of similar backstabbing I am merely saying that careless blameshifiting and commenting can be extremely damaging. TTC employees across the board, from management to teaching staff, constantly show themselves to be unprofessional, irresponsible and inconsequential. Not all, but many.

My experience with TTC was on a social level. I saw, heard and experienced enough, and see for myself that even after 4 years nothing has improved, and perhaps the attitudes and activities of a certain proportion of people is beginning to catch up with the reputation of the organisation.

What I am saying is that perhaps GIZ's decision is based on many factors, not just the performance of the college in the marketplace. It is not appropriate to add fuel to the fire by apportioning the blame directly onto people's abilities as managers, HoDs, whatever, as seems to be the most popular practice on these threads.

[desertfox]

No Place Like Home - In the 4th paragraph of your post you refer to "the decision of Giz."

The "decision" I believe did not belong to Giz, but to the College of Excellence. They chose to put the contract to run TTC out to tender. I understand that Giz were making plans for the future, and the decision of the CoE came rather out of the blue.

Giz's future plans included a change of name, maybe an effort to escape the past to which you refer. But alas that was abandoned too.

[Balzac]

[No Place Like Home]

Balzac, you misunderstand.

I will repeat - "Having been on the receiving end of similar backstabbing I am merely saying that careless blameshifiting and commenting can be extremely damaging. TTC employees across the board, from management to teaching staff, constantly show themselves to be unprofessional, irresponsible and inconsequential. Not all, but many".

There are several threads like this one, full of direct or thinly disguised accusations, criticisms and specific examples of what people feel is wrong with the management in particular, whereas in reality there are many other people involved.

Clearly it is time to remove myself from the discussion before any further misunderstandings arise.

[Lord T]

No Place Like Home, you misunderstand:

there has been widespread criticism of the upper management (Germans),
and the HoD and 3 team leaders who were in the English Department in 2015. They are still there, but 2 team leaders were demoted, I believe.

There has been nothing but praise for the other teachers and admin staff.

You were not there to witness what happened, but you have said that you yourself were a victim of backstabbing at the college 4 years ago.

I suspect many of the posters were themselves the victims of backstabbing by the aforementioned HoD and team leaders which took place in 2015.

So the posters are only expressing what they felt about the backstabbing they were victims of, just as you yourself must have felt when you were a victim.

[No Place Like Home]

Lord T - sure, fair point. Still, two wrongs don't make a right. I don't think a public forum viewed thousands of times is the place to hold such a discussion or make direct criticisms where individual people can be easily identified though, and this is the main point I wanted to make. This is not the only such thread, and others I read dealt with different situations even prior to what happened last year, so it seems the unrest dates back to earlier years and involves other people too. But, like I said, I am removing myself from the discussion forthwith

[Balzac]

[Lord T]

Thanks for the update Balzac - good news for the deserving.

Just a minor factual error to correct: Croatia is not a Baltic state.

[Balzac]

[nomad soul]

The Titanic hasn't yet sunk??? Geez.

[babur]

Again, please don't shoot the messanger:

[Balzac]

[desertfox]

There is another coordinator still there with only a BA to his name ordering around master degree holders. How long will that continue I wonder?

Balzac - Maybe he will call it a day and retire to the Philippines with all his wealth?