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tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

What goes around, comes around eh Jeff?

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

if that were true..most Chinese would be walkin round with a Karmic boot print on their ass....

jeffinflorida · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:04 am Post subject:

Sinko · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 349

Jeff,

You were at a school where they paid you the airfare in advance (Y18,180 to be exact). You had a disagreement with them over an incident that most people would have overcome. But not you. You stubbornly dug in your heels and wouldn't compromise. You then ran away without returning the money. Result: School less Y18,180 and a foreign teacher.

You have worked 2 months for your company and have been having hassles with pay, hours, overtime, tax. Result: Jeff less about Y4000, working an extra few hours and a few headaches to go with it.

Well, Jeff, I really think you don't have a case to answer for. You want us to side with you, and say to he ll with "them"? Sorry, mate. I have no sympathy for you. You stole money in the past, yet you stated that the money was not important to you (so why didn't you give it back?). Why has money suddenly become more important again?

Maybe you should take Bearcanada's advice.

clark.w.griswald · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2056

Sinko great post!

Jeff I don't think anyone takes pleasure in suggesting that perhaps the situation you are in is at least partly of your own doing - but if you could step back and see things from a different angle then perhaps you would find another approach that would not lead to the conflict that you have had in the last two positions you have had in China.

You may have been unlucky, but it seems clear to me that I am not the only one that feels that the airfare fiasco has really called into question your integrity.

My advice with your current post - fight for what you know you were promised and try to work out the rest in a civil manner even if you don't get everything that you believe you are entitled to. Perhaps the school's view of what you are entitled to varies from your own.

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

do you really think one has anything to do with the other..it is a culture of business betrayal ....

clark.w.griswald · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2056

jeffinflorida · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:38 am Post subject:

Shan-Shan · Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 1074 Location: electric pastures