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johnslat · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: Bears repeating

Dear scot47,
You can say that again - in fact, you did.

Regards,
John

gulam2 · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 137

When I left KSU
Obekan cheated me out of holiday pay plus 1700 Riyals aprox.
This kind of bad behavior and dishonesty is the norm with these two companies.

Gulam 2

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I think Bell's role in this Obeikan projet is marginal. They recruit and then deliver the indentured teachers to Riyadh. Their fate there is in the hands of Obeikan.

I have some visions of a latter-day slave market somewhere in London where EFL Teachers are bought and sold like in a Roman or Ottoman slave market.

saudimad · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 19

I received this email from Bell yesterday:

Dear Teacher

For those of you in the Kingdom, work will restart at the premises used last year (computer science dept) on Saturday 4th Oct at 8.30am. We will work until 5.00pm. For the rest of the week, it will be a 9-5 day. We will still be on that site for the placement testing starting 11 Oct, but will move to the new campus at the end of that week.

If any transferring teachers will not be able to report on 4 October, could they please reply to this message, saying where they are, and when they will be joining the programme?

With best wishes

The Bell/ORD team

Any comments??