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Totemic
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DIPTESOL, first question: are you in Shanghai now?
Second: ni yo camera phone ma?
Request: could you post a pic?
Thanks in advance!  |
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Buck Lin
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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Location: nanchang china
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| So far nobody has given a description of the uniform. Before I send in my application I want to know how I will look. Will the women be required to wear a skirt like in Taiwan? Will the skirt be a mini or one with a slit on the side to show a little leg? Will the men wear a clip on tie to prevent students from strangling them? What will the color of the shirts be? Will you get two uniforms so that you can clean one and wear the other, forty hours in the office doesn't give you much time for cleaning. I think EF could save a lot of money by recyling green military uniforms. |
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DIPTESOL
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:36 am Post subject: |
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DIPTESOL, first question: are you in Shanghai now?
Second: ni yo camera phone ma?
Request: could you post a pic? |
Yes, I am in Shanghai and wo you camera phone.
I've actually managed to steal a photo but can't work out how to post it on here. Anyone? |
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Buck Lin
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Well thanks EF for giving me a new wardrobe. As it turns out if you work for this company you will get 7 uniforms with the day of the week on your right pocket of your shirt or blouse. On your day off you get to wear a T shirt with an E on the front and and F on the back. The day off shirt will also have the place where you work's phone number. The colors are baby blue for the Dudes and pink for the Babes. The company also will clean your clothes on a daily basis. So you bring in yesterdays uniform and they will clean it in three days. Think how much you save by working for EF on laundry and purchasing of clothes. Oh yes you will get ties to wear with all the characters from disney. Monday you will wear a Mickey mouse tie and Tuesday a Donald Duck tie and Wednesday a Mary Poppins tie. The theme will change as time goes on they are still working on this today so they couldn't give me the complete details. |
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sharpe88
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Are you kidding ? That's funny either way.
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| Well thanks EF for giving me a new wardrobe. As it turns out if you work for this company you will get 7 uniforms with the day of the week on your right pocket of your shirt or blouse. On your day off you get to wear a T shirt with an E on the front and and F on the back. The day off shirt will also have the place where you work's phone number. The colors are baby blue for the Dudes and pink for the Babes. The company also will clean your clothes on a daily basis. So you bring in yesterdays uniform and they will clean it in three days. Think how much you save by working for EF on laundry and purchasing of clothes. Oh yes you will get ties to wear with all the characters from disney. Monday you will wear a Mickey mouse tie and Tuesday a Donald Duck tie and Wednesday a Mary Poppins tie. The theme will change as time goes on they are still working on this today so they couldn't give me the complete details. |
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sharpe88
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: |
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China is an odd place to go seeking non-conformity.
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After all - I'm pretty sure the kind of folk who travel half way around the world to be a China FT - have taken on a "uniform" of choice - and maybe just by taking on the odd-ball life of the westerner in China - they�ve clothed themselves in a spiritual uniform that suggests something out of the ordinary - non-conformity!!!!!
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vikuk
Joined: 23 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| China is an odd place to go seeking non-conformity. |
So - for the folks back home - finding work in China is now getting to be a regular norm  |
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DIPTESOL
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've finally got round to posting a photo of the uniform, only the top half but gives you an idea and just imagine it with American khaki trousers.
http://s583.photobucket.com/albums/ss278/dippytess/
Notice how the people behind didn't want to conform and wore their own clothes out of protest!! |
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theincredibleegg
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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scarrrry...
perhaps you guys should start looking at something more important than staff uniforms |
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Silent Shadow
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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Location: A stones throw past the back of beyond
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| theincredibleegg wrote: |
scarrrry...
perhaps you guys should start looking at something more important than staff uniforms |
If uniforms aren't important, then surely people have a right to question EF about why their staff should have to wear them. |
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Totemic
Joined: 05 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| DIPTESOL wrote: |
I've finally got round to posting a photo of the uniform, only the top half but gives you an idea and just imagine it with American khaki trousers.
http://s583.photobucket.com/albums/ss278/dippytess/
Notice how the people behind didn't want to conform and wore their own clothes out of protest!! |
Thanks for posting it!  |
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theincredibleegg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Silent Shadow wrote: |
| theincredibleegg wrote: |
scarrrry...
perhaps you guys should start looking at something more important than staff uniforms |
If uniforms aren't important, then surely people have a right to question EF about why their staff should have to wear them. |
My point is that the uniforms doesn't make EF a bad employer. It's all the rip-offs that make EF bad. Discussing uniforms sort of misses the point.
It is however good to know that they do require employees to wear them. |
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Teatime of Soul
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Who else wears uniforms....
janitors
fast food employees
clerks
military
post office
police
firemen
doctors/surgeons
nurses
border patrol
customs
forestry department
astronauts
and a lot of others.
Not sure what all the hoopla is about.
But, kinda agree with P.J. O'Rourke's words to the effect, "If your older than thirty, and your wearing a name tag, you have made a serious vocational error." |
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vikuk
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:40 am Post subject: |
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Who else wears uniforms....
janitors
fast food employees
clerks
military
post office
police
firemen
doctors/surgeons
nurses
border patrol
customs
forestry department
astronauts
and a lot of others. |
Lets take into consideration that what happens in any of these professions shouldn't have any major influence over the way the EFL/ESL industry in China develops - while the goings on in EF - the biggest FT outfit in China - must surely be a trend-setter for other employers.
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| Not sure what all the hoopla is about. |
Well maybe the some of that hoopla is focused on a feeling of - "I hope this uniform thing aint going to catch on - 'cause if we have to wear 'em - what next?????"
After all - if EF Ft's meekly accept their new company-rags, and the EFL industry plays copy-cat - then employers may start thinking that they can start to implement a whole bunch of EF standards into their schools, and those terrible EF wage levels - which, outside Beijing, start at 5,500/month for 40 hours - might also be regarded as more of a norm  |
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evaforsure
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:49 am Post subject: |
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the village people...they wore uniforms ... and they were pretty gay about it...
so much fuss over a logo shirt..when u know most of you wore polyester pants and a Long John silvers eyepatch to work when you were back on the fast food block working that dream job we so often hear about..... |
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