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ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

Folks:

Thanks to all concerned with your comments.

Ghost's personal doctor has strongly advised it not to take up the position on offer, because the stress of the position might produce deleterious consequences on the health of poor ghost......

Ghost spent a week in a Taiwan hospital last year, and does not want to go through that again....

ghost

expresso · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 2

Still worth working on this project. IAT has disappointed us - project not what we thought, but at the girl�s school we are making headway. Many of us are settled, wouldn�t still be here if it wasn�t for support of project manager and the school management. Want to do something different next year but, so keen to see what the 2007 brings. And, we get good pay, on time and good allowances.

drdallas · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Middle East

You've been smoking way too much wacky backy in your shisha, girl!

Go ask Alice, I think she'll know...

shine on · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

It's not so much the wacky backy in the shisha but the fact that the supervisor at the girl's school spends more time in the shopping malls (MOD edit)

drdallas · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Middle East

We lost this morning our excellent Supervisor at the Boys School - he resigned, greatly disillusioned by the chronic lack of progress, support, honesty, help, and communication from his employers.

He will be very sadly missed.

He returns to Canada a little saddened, slightly more hardened, and perhaps a less idealistic man, because of the way this 'Project' isn't.

Sheikh Inal Ovar · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School

Can I ask how old he was ....

drdallas · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Middle East

Mid-30s.

Aged considerably in his four months tenure.

Blood pressure skyrocketed.

Not the only one to suffer such.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

... the fact that it only took him 4 months to fall apart says more about him than it does about the employer.

Sounds like he hadn't educated himself about how the Middle East works... it is not place for the naive and uninformed...

VS

fired50 · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 4

...or, I assume, anyone who takes education seriously and is prevented from carrying out their profession to the best of their ability.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

perhaps so... and perhaps not...

VS

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

drdallas · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Middle East

There is absolutely no way that the Supervisor at the Boys 'Model' school "fell apart", because he did not. He remains a very well-adjusted and well-balanced individual, which is why he resigned.

He was betrayed comprehensively by his employers who placed him in an impossible position in an environment not conducive to professional management practices, let alone schoolteaching.

Mauvaise foi for him to have remained: he acted authentically in this Sisyphusian situation.

drdallas · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Middle East

I omitted to add that the Supervisor at the Boys 'Model' School was ALSO teaching fulltime!

He didn't have time to go trolling in the shopping malls!

fired50 · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 4

Withering on the vine!

eha · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 355 Location: ME

'He remains a very well-adjusted and well-balanced individual, which is why he resigned. '

Quite. Exactly the case of our much-mourned Director, who was a highly competent, well-informed and humane administrator, who fuly understood the importance of human relations in the work environment. He didn't last long.