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currentaffairs



Joined: 22 Aug 2012
Posts: 828

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, sounds like time to leave China. Perhaps Korea or Hong Kong a decent bet. Better luck next time!
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thechangling



Joined: 11 Apr 2013
Posts: 276

PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

theoriginalprankster wrote:
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Sorry to hear that it didn't work out TOP. I guess that you won't be coming back to SH anyway? Are you done with China now (ready for the Nam perhaps) or will you give it another bash?


I'm fed up with China and all its BS.

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theoriginalprankster wrote:
Oh, they also mentioned days that I was absent (December 30th and 31st) - I wasn't even working at the school at that time.


What was their reaction when you pointed this out to them?


Silence.



I'm beginning to think that at least 70% of teaching jobs are fraught with dead-end students, incompetent administration and all the lies and cheating that I'm now experiencing in my last two jobs.

Us, a foreigners, are expendable. They know it and abuse it.


I've just experienced a similar experience to you in a college here that I'll review fully soon. Keep strong mate. China's B.S is endemic everywhere here.
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Curtinca



Joined: 26 Feb 2016
Posts: 73

PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Us, a foreigners, are expendable."

If this is an example of OP's mastery of the language he is supposed to teach, there could be another reason for his being let go.
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theoriginalprankster



Joined: 19 Mar 2012
Posts: 895

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curtinca wrote:
"Us, a foreigners, are expendable."

If this is an example of OP's mastery of the language he is supposed to teach, there could be another reason for his being let go.


You are not welcome. Leave now.

Edit: two dollars like this poser/poster make you want to kick a head in. They offer zero value, just their cheap remarks. Pos/ter - go elsewhere, you don't need the grief I'll rain down on you.
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Curtinca



Joined: 26 Feb 2016
Posts: 73

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

theoriginalprankster wrote:
Curtinca wrote:
"Us, a foreigners, are expendable."

If this is an example of OP's mastery of the language he is supposed to teach, there could be another reason for his being let go.


You are not welcome. Leave now.

Edit: two dollars like this poser/poster make you want to kick a head in. They offer zero value, just their cheap remarks. Pos/ter - go elsewhere, you don't need the grief I'll rain down on you.


This post was accompanied by a PM from TOP, which I'll make public...

Subject: Your back
Watch yourself.
You think you can hide behind the internet curtain.
I can track and trace you. It won't be pretty.


Maybe I was asking for it by criticizing his command of English, but I think this is over the TOP.
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bograt



Joined: 12 Nov 2014
Posts: 331

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curtinca wrote:
theoriginalprankster wrote:
Curtinca wrote:
"Us, a foreigners, are expendable."

If this is an example of OP's mastery of the language he is supposed to teach, there could be another reason for his being let go.


You are not welcome. Leave now.

Edit: two dollars like this poser/poster make you want to kick a head in. They offer zero value, just their cheap remarks. Pos/ter - go elsewhere, you don't need the grief I'll rain down on you.


This post was accompanied by a PM from TOP, which I'll make public...

Subject: Your back
Watch yourself.
You think you can hide behind the internet curtain.
I can track and trace you. It won't be pretty.


Maybe I was asking for it by criticizing his command of English, but I think this is over the TOP.


Yeah it is over the top but IMO your criticism was uncalled for. It looks like a typo to me anyway. A rule of thumb I follow is only call people out for their level of English on here if they are specifically saying they have great English themselves or they're slagging off someone else's English. Otherwise it looks petty.
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OhBudPowellWhereArtThou



Joined: 02 Jun 2015
Posts: 1168
Location: Since 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looked like a typo on first. second, and third reading.

I think we have to cut ourselves slack for this sort of thing online. I consider myself a grammarian, but I am sometimes horrified by my own mistakes after I pull the trigger to publish. It's not easy to type, drink a cup of coffee, eat a doughnut, and smoke a cigarette simultaneously.

It's quite covfefe.
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KayuJati



Joined: 21 Feb 2010
Posts: 313

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OhBudPowellWhereArtThou wrote:
I think we have to cut ourselves slack for this sort of thing online. I consider myself a grammarian, but I am sometimes horrified by my own mistakes after I pull the trigger to publish. It's not easy to type, drink a cup of coffee, eat a doughnut, and smoke a cigarette simultaneously.


Perhaps you need to watch some old Dean Martin routines on youtube. He could sing while holding a martini glass, cigarette, and microphone with just his two hands. What a legend!

Us could all learn from he example. Laughing
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AGoodStory



Joined: 26 Feb 2010
Posts: 738

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OhBudPowellWhereArtThou wrote:
It looked like a typo on first. second, and third reading.

I think we have to cut ourselves slack for this sort of thing online. I consider myself a grammarian, but I am sometimes horrified by my own mistakes after I pull the trigger to publish. It's not easy to type, drink a cup of coffee, eat a doughnut, and smoke a cigarette simultaneously.

It's quite covfefe.


Now I can't get this picture of a typing, smoking, doughnut-eating octopus out of my head!

And ditto: clearly a typo. A typo shouldn't bring into question someone's "mastery of English." Or most of us posting here would be required to enroll in remedial English classes. Very Happy

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