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kowlooner
Joined: 24 Jun 2004
Posts: 230
Location: HK, BCC (former)
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 Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad everybody's trying to help, but has anybody looked at the OP's prior posts?
Less than a year ago, he said:
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| I just left my job after myself and my employer could not agree on how to resolve different concerns. I offered to give them the month's noting as per stipulated in the contract, and immediate buyout for work completed this month, and or the option of me leaving at the end of May with an immediate payout. They too none of them, so I quit immediately. |
link: http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=622926&highlight=#622926
And his solution to the problem:
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| I used their greed against them, I just stood outside their door handing out business cards to everyone who came to my former school's door...After three days the they came to me and paid my the owed monies. |
And less than half a year earlier, he claimed to have started his own school. So what happened to that idea?
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| I have just started my own school after becoming throughly disgusted at the pathetic excuse for education at eikaiwas(sp?), hogwans in Korea and the equivalent in China , after all i can't possible do any worse than them. |
Link: http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=578629&highlight=#578629
His reason for starting the school?
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| After a short time (2 months ) working for a corrupt and dishonest employer I told them where to go. |
Link: http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=573948&highlight=#573948
And, on getting his first job in Japan, his description of his former employer in Korea?
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| At least here if my employer is the unethical, greedy dishonest piece of crap like my last employer was I can leave and still work legally in the country. |
Link: http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=517744&highlight=#517744
Does anybody else see a pattern here? I'm not saying the OP doesn't have a legitimate beef. But perhaps there's a bit more to the story?
(flame-retardant suit on...) |
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dove
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Posts: 271
Location: USA/Japan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it does seem that the original poster has had a hard time keeping a job in Japan. Who really knows why? I think to succeed in Japan, to please the students, the parents, the administrators, the foreign teacher has to know how to be humble, modest, a little bit on Sunday-school -best behavior, if you know what I mean. The teachers who fail often have entitlement issues, or they believe that being humble compromises their Western values of being assertive. They also fear that being humble invites being taken advantage of.
I AM NOT saying the original poster was/is like that. I'm just commenting, also while wearing flame- retardant outerwear. |
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