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[Marisa229]

Like the subject said, I just completed my TEFL certification, I have a BA, and I'm moving to Rome in a few weeks to find a teaching job. Is it realistic that I might find a position this fall or is it more likely that something reasonable will come up in January? I just want to know if I'll be wasting the first few months I'm there. Any feedback is appreciated!

[Chitchat]

If you are still looking for a job in Rome try here they offer you a list of schools for italy and i know they have a section for rome. http://www.corkid.co.uk/italysample.htm
just fax the schools with your cv and they should call you most schools don't start hiring until the end of October.
good luck

[Norros]

Not sure if you'll have to wait 'til January but DON'T go to Anderson House, Bergamo

[teacheringreece]

And why bother paying corkid for a list of schools? If you're going there, you can just get the phone book and spend a day calling up every school to see what they say.

[Norros]

Anderson House � Staff appraisals form

We would appreciate your comments regarding your experiences working with us this year. If you could please take the time to complete the following questionnaire it may aid us in providing a more pleasurable experience for our future �project workers�, as strangely very few of you seem to be interested in continuing on with us at Anderson House.

Paying attention to the needs of our employees may have the previously unforeseen consequence of our �project workers� providing a more satisfactory service to our clients which, in turn, could well allow us to proceed with our primary objective - the expansion of The Empire;

1. Do you think that Peter Frederick Anderson will actually take the time to read this?
a) Yes
b) NO
c) It depends on whether he�s taken his pills.
d) It depends on which pills he�s taken.

2. Should Peter Frederick Anderson actually take the time to read this, do you think he will�

a) try to act upon the feedback he has been provided with.
b) consider himself far too superior to accept the advice of others and dismiss it accordingly.
c) try to think of another object on which to attach his name (cars � done!, bins � done! Sign in the toilet � done!)

3. Should Peter Frederick Anderson actually try to act upon the feedback he has been provided with, do you think he will�

a) endeavour to provide his �project workers� with improved working conditions.
b) rant to himself quietly because he really has no idea how to do his job.
c) take another pill.

4. How would you describe Peter Frederick Anderson�s rapport with you and your fellow �project workers�?

a) Warm, friendly and full of concern about your daily lives.
b) He couldn�t give a shit �cos The Empire is more important.
c) It depends on whether he�s taken his pills.
d) It depends on which pills he�s taken.

5. How have you enjoyed your time at Anderson House?

a) It�s the best TEFL job I�ve had!
b) Fucking awful!
c) It depends on whether he�d taken his pills.
d) It depends on which pills he�d taken.

6. How many �project workers� have resigned from Anderson House as a result of Peter Frederick Anderson not listening to their concerns?

a) None
b) At least one a month
c) Can�t remember �cos I�ve started taking pills too!

7. Would you ask Peter Frederick Anderson for a letter of reference?

a) Of course, he�s a model character whose opinion I respect more than my mother�s.
b) WHAT?
c) It depends on whether he�s taken his pills.
d) It depends on which pills he�s taken.

8. Imagine Peter Frederick Anderson offered you a contract that paid �5000 a month for 20 contact hours a week, would you accept it?

a) Of course, the man has honour and I�d love to work for him again!
b) Yeah right! If I�d wanted to earn big cash by working for a crook, then I�d be working as a lawyer for Shell with much less stress.
c) I�d ask his doctor if he�d changed his pills and how long he was going to be on them for.

9. How much attention and forethought do you think goes into providing the �project workers� with a comfortable timetable?

a) My timetable has been perfect � no complaints at all.
b) About as much as when I played �pin the tail on the donkey� for the first time at my fifth birthday party.
c) It depends on how high I was on Peter Frederick Anderson's list of most hated �project workers�.


Thank you for taking the time to read this questionnaire. However, as you anticipated in your answers to questions (1) and (2) we really don�t give a toss about your welfare and will continue to act like the wankers we are until we really do go bankrupt.