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mouse5
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:03 am Post subject: SABIS Erbil, Northern Iraq BEWARE! |
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Read the comments at this site BEFORE you decide to sample the "SABIS experience". The school is nothing like what they claim. One-way tickets out of Iraq are very expensive.
http://sabisstinks.wordpress.com/
In case the link doesn't work, this post came from a teacher in Erbil
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Dear Sabisstinks,
First it seems that Mr ZZZZ (Principal) refuses to fix the air conditioning system so about 11-15 teachers including me were left without air conditioning until now. I resigned and the AQC,s do not care about Education at all including Mr. ZZZZ. It seems a Miss ZZZZ has no experience and does not even care about the treatment of the teachers there or the kids. They are trashing rooms because there are 38 kids in a small room.
I was called a liar to my face in front of the new Principal and was told to get out of her office. After that Mr. ZZZZ wrote me a letter about my bathroom toilet being plugged and it was horrible also with the wrong date October 14th 2008. I will scan it to you it. I got very sick and the school nurse sent me to the doctor who gave me an IV in my arm and antibiotics to be injected by the school nurse every day 2 times a day for a week. Ok Sabis made me sick no air conditioning and they at that point refused to fix the problem. They gave me an apartment with no refrigerator and I had to go back and fourth to eat and then the air conditioner went out in the second apartment too.
I slept in the teachers lounge in a chair and was yelled at and refused help by management (Mr. VVVV) to get another flat until the principal got involved and then it was 10PM the next night and I slept in an unfurnished flat with my mattress only. I was accused of socializing and refusing to work and a bad teacher all in the first 2 days of the opening of the school� I am the only tenured teacher with a Masters Degree that they hired. I should have been the AQC� Before I left the Ministry called me and said one of their teachers at the old school was badly treated by Mr. ZZZZ due to he was taking alot of expensive things and they were coming up missing. When she complained he fired her and caused her alot of problems. Again I will scan and send to you all proof and I hope Mr. Bistany gets wind of this because this Mr. ZZZZ is not a good person and when I saw Mr. ZZZZ and Mr. VVVV apartment they seem to have alot of things that Mr. Bistany�s apartment doen�t. Mrs BBBB is reporting everything to Mr. Bistany but she does not know as much as I do. I received at least two unprofessional letters from this guy. |
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kurd
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:28 am Post subject: SABIS |
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I was a Kurdish English teacher there for not long. sabis take everybody with a foreign passports. The website is good isea. The school has not respect for teachers. They know you can't run away. Please don't go there! SABIS don't pay big salaries. We get less than 1/4 of the foreign teacher!! That's why many kurds dont like that.
Erbil is very expensive. And in Iraq we teach 6 days the week!! Friday is your marking day. |
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Anonymousfornow
Joined: 09 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:05 pm Post subject: Heed warnings about Sabis |
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| I do not think people realize how manipulative and evil a company can be. Sabis is scary. I got a contract from Sabis in Kurdistan recently that I could not sign. I do not think it would even be legal in the US. It would allow Sabis to decide what I did 24 hours per day and 7 days per week for 10 months and did not guarantee any pay because Sabis could fine me any amount for any reason at their discretion. Worse yet, I could owe them a huge amount of money if I left the job for ANY reason (over $12,000). This would have to be paid or they could hold my passport! This was the worst of the contract, but the rest was bad, too. Sabis said this was standard for the industry, but if it is, I need to find some other type of work! Seriously, though, this job may be dangerous. The recruitment was not at all honest, and you may be a slave and unable to leave their property for as long as they wish to have you there. Life is more "brutish and short" there by their choice, and there is no one to help you. |
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happyroofus
Joined: 08 Oct 2010
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Location: Middle East
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: THX! |
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| Guys - a BIG THANK YOU for this posting! I was considering these people.. |
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