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lmbeharry
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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Location: Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
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| A question for our "Bihari". You couldn't handle Korea. You couldn't handle Mongolia. What makes you think you could handle Saudi ? |
I handled Korea just fine. I only left to find a wife. And I succeeded in that exercise two years ago (just four months after leaving Korea).
Mongolia? It's not that I could not handle Mongolia. I have just grown extremely tired of wasting my time. As you all know, I am a very proud man - perhaps too proud (I acknowledge that). But I really do not think that I have to prove myself in Mongolia. I came here with credentials and they put me through tests and trials. Well, to be quite blunt, Mongolia did not pay my University and graduate school tuitions, and Mongolia did not spend 15 years in the U.S. working and gaining experience in corporate America. And as far as I am concerned, Mongolia never earned the right to test me. Hell, I'm just pissed off that this culture does not have the sophistication to recognize U.S. higher education and bonafide credentials.
It's not a matter of me not being able to handle them (Mongolia). It is, rather, a matter of me not wanting to waste any more time in this culture. I came here to help. All this culture (i.e. University of Humanities, Institute of Finance and Economics, Elite School, Hartford Institute, and others) had to do was to check my credentials for credibility, and give me an honest opportunity to produce. They did not do that. They did the opposite of that - either through negligence, or unprofessionalism, or insecurity.
Basically, I'm tired of being put through the ringer. I came. I told them what I could do. And Mongolia failed to avail itself of an opportunity.
I am really not vain - just pragmatic. Life is tooo short to putz around. I posted that earlier, above.
After reading over my response, I decided to add a little.
If I were a Director of a education facility (hypothetically), and a Johns Hopkins grad with an MBA, and a year of legal training came up to me looking for a job, personally, I'd call the embassy, fax the diplomas, verify their authenticity, call his hometown for a background check, then I'd interview the applicant. If everything checked out, I (hypothetically) would listen to the man - especially if he was asking peanuts for pay. I might think... "Is this for real?" "Could I be so lucky to get such talent for peanuts?" "How could I use this resource to improve my school and our education program." That is (hypothetically) how I would have approached someone like me.
Mongolia? These schools didn't even check my credentials until after the fact. How's that for professionalism?
As I have said before: These school administrators are too lazy or too corrupt to complete their homework. Yet, Mongolia allows these Directors and schools to continue to operate.
Why should I stay here??? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| "not vain - just pragmatic" - with very little humility or self-awareness I would say ! |
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Mia Xanthi
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
Posts: 955
Location: why is my heart still in the Middle East while the rest of me isn't?
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject: vanity and humility |
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| Sorry lmbeharry, but I would have to agree with scot47. As I mentioned earlier, I am predisposed to liking you if only because of where you are from. However, if I were one the the evil "directors" you are talking about, I wouldn't touch your CV with a ten-foot pole. You don't seem to be aware of how such public maligning of various "directors" comes across to others. No matter how valid your criticisms may be in reality, they make you come across as someone who cannot deal with authority. If I were a "director" I would assume that you would be exceptionally critical of me as well and that you would think you could do better than me. Accept scot47's comments and try a little humility in your next job search. |
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lmbeharry
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 73
Location: Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: For All the Concerned |
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I said before, I really am grateful for all of the advice you all have given me in this thread. And, as I said before, I tried to be honest and forthright in everything I said.
Anyway. Cheers and goodnight. I'm off this thread. |
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bulgogiboy
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| lmbeharry wrote: |
The prestigious Johns Hopkins University conferred my Bachelor of Arts degree twenty years ago.
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Dear Imbeharry,
You should have skipped all the university studies, I dont think they've done you any good. You should have put the 300k in a high-interest account, you would have been rich by now 
And you sound just like a co-worker I had in Korea who had some kind of graduate business degree (he screamed the name of the business school at me once, although it just sounded like 'wanksville' to me). He was a puffed-up buffoon too. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Any reason to revive a thread like this after two years ? |
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bulgogiboy
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Nah suppose not. |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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The person that you are trying to deflate has surely long left the building... 
VS |
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bulgogiboy
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, was a little foolish of me. He's probably still boring his co-workers in Mongolia... |
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drandreasbrown
Joined: 06 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| This thread was bloody great. Don't let it die! I vote one of us takes up the mantle of verbose, self-important business school graduate, one of us can be a Dalek, and maybe we need someone to play a character from the Highlander movies (not Sean Connery, obviously), or perhaps that liquid guy who rode that bizarre camel thing in the 1970s film Wizards. |
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