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[maruss]

They used to pay $500 per month not so many years ago and advertise that as a 'middle-class' salary,so I suppose they will try to claim that they now pay much more!Perhaps they consider that teachers are not affected by inflation and especially steep increases in the cost of basic food prices?Or maybe they consider that foreigners eat too much anyway and it will do them good to cut down!Even if these jobs were in somewhere like Cyprus where I live and they could then claim it involved teaching teenagers on summer school holidays in the morning and then escorting them to the beach in the afternoon etc with all meals and expenses included,this money would still be peanuts!Yet it is in Moscow,one of the worlds most expensive,yet also strangely alluring cities......
Mind you,in one firm I worked for in 2005,a very capable and hard working Russian lady adminstrator who spoke very good English used to earn the equivalent of only around $500 per month and she told me this was quite normal,even in Moscow so what can you say???

[Sashadroogie]

[maruss]

For the priveledge of being allowed to live and work in the land of the revolutionary proletariat we should all be grateful to the people for providing us with a bed to sleep on!!Lots of less lucky folk don't even have a bed at all,let alone with a mattress-and a blanket and sheets(whether they are clean or not is irrelevant!)

[Minny]

After working in Asia I got use to sleeping on the floor. I actually can't sleep in a bed anymore. I actaully find it quite liberating as well my bed is pretty much everywhere, not to mention the sever back pain I use to suffer well not completely gone has improved substantially and requires much less treatment than before.

Hehe it appears to me that they obviously only have our best interests at heart by forcing us to sleep on the floor ;-p

[Sashadroogie]

Your best interests are never in BKC's heart...if indeed it has any heart at all...

[spiral78]

After working in Asia I got use to sleeping on the floor.

Hmmm, I must have been labouring under a misapprehension all these years - I thought Asia generally paid teachers well enough for them to afford beds and other basics!

Or (I'm confused about grammar) maybe it was after your Asia experience...elsewhere much more financially challenging?

Anyway, nice that it's helped your back!

For myself, a nice clean floor vs BKC's shabby sheets....not a difficult choice, should I be forced to make it. However, I'm gonna hope to rate better digs wherever, even as a lowly teacher.

[Sashadroogie]

I think yer salary depends on how much paper you can wave in front of the auditorium...

[spiral78]

[Minny]

Depends where you are in Asia.

I had a bed. It was harder than the floor.