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currentaffairs
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| Yes, sounds like time to leave China. Perhaps Korea or Hong Kong a decent bet. Better luck next time! |
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thechangling
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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"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
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| theoriginalprankster wrote: |
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"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
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:11 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| 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.  |
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AGoodStory
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. 
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Curtinca
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IMHO, a typo is something like typing "hte" when you mean "the".
"Us...are expendable", when it should read "We...are expendable", is an error.
Perhaps some of we could do with some remedial English classes. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Looking at the original post
Categorising your students like this -
"the rubbish".
will not make your job easy. |
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Curtinca
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| OhBudPowellWhereArtThou wrote: |
It looked like a typo on first. second, and third reading.
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Ooooooohhh! You think maybe TOP meant "USA foreigners are expendable"? That would explain it. TWI, perhaps. So the real problem is anti-Americanism. Right. |
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ourownalone
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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IMO Seems like posting while furious. Or drunk. Or furiously drunk.
These schools have crappy admission policies. It's a train wreck of tuition seeking and they take anyone with a check that clears no matter their level of achievement and hold interviews and ask staff to evaluate, but ignore any warnings about students at low levels and throw a lot of motivational cliches around. Friends have told me from schools staffed by both foreigners and Chinese teachers that Chinese teachers either take too much credit for their students success or freak out when the students underperform and anxiously complain how terrible their students are to distance themselves from the outcome.
In turn managers freak out and up tutoring sessions and hours at school and weekends...mad dashing it all. I think the OP has common expectations of study skills his students obviously do not possess and stood a ground or whatever in the name of having standards and provided the administration a scapegoat in the same way the teachers wanted to distance themselves from low exam scores. |
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bograt
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Curtinca wrote: |
IMHO, a typo is something like typing "hte" when you mean "the".
"Us...are expendable", when it should read "We...are expendable", is an error.
Perhaps some of we could do with some remedial English classes. |
Us Brits use this structure quite often in spoken English. While technically incorrect, it's fairly common. In the North they also use it as a possessive adjective - E.g. 'We need to get us orders in at bar before it's too late.' |
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Mr. Kalgukshi
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Locked due to off-topic, derailing and other inappropriate postings.
If it should be unlocked in the future, continuing with inappropriate postings will see the makers of same no longer members of our community. |
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