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JZer
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| dangerousapple wrote: |
Again with the bribes. Please stop posting "everybody knows that blah blah blah is true in Taiwan", because if you haven't run a business here, then you don't know jack about doing business in Taiwan.
I have labor bureau inspectors, health inspectors, fire inspectors and public safety inspectors come in numerous times every year. For the most part they are professional and courteous, except for the local labor bureau inspector. The last time he came in, he made some offensive comments, and I blasted him for not showing my staff the respect they deserved, and then told him not to come back until he had learned some manners. By the time he left, he was backpedalling and apologizing and telling me not to take things so seriously.
When I set up my company, I was told very clearly not to offer any bribes to any inspectors, and for the first couple of years, the inspectors that came to my school all told me they could not accept bribes, even before they came into the school to do their job. They were terrified that they would get caught and go to prison!
These people are not looking for bribes.
In more than 10 years of running schools, I've had exactly one person try to ask me for a bribe. He was a drunken off-duty fire inspector who came swaggering in, saying he was going to shut us down if we didn't "pay a fine". I told him quite clearly to GTF out of my school before I called the cops, that I had taken down his license plate number and the ID number on his shirt, and that I expected to never see him again. And I never did.
And why would anyone pay the police a bribe? The police have absolutely nothing to do with enforcing bushiban and/or labor regulations. My only run-ins with the cops have been when they come by to complain about parents blocking traffic while waiting for their kids, or when we when call them about suspicious people lurking around the school.
Stop making comments based on how things might have been 20 years ago, because that ain't how it is now. |
Ok buddy, that is why HESS continues to employ foreign teachers as kindergarten teachers, despite it being illegal? No, people don't bride officials in Taiwan. 
Not to mention that immigration bust mom and pop kindergartens who employ illegal teachers.
Not to mention that a certain summer camp in Taiwan employs close to 100 percent of their teachers illegally. Most are on tourist visas. Many of the summer camps are even in public schools. Do you want to explain that to me?
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JZer
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| dangerousapple wrote: |
Again with the bribes. Please stop posting "everybody knows that blah blah blah is true in Taiwan", because if you haven't run a business here, then you don't know jack about doing business in Taiwan.
I have labor bureau inspectors, health inspectors, fire inspectors and public safety inspectors come in numerous times every year. For the most part they are professional and courteous, except for the local labor bureau inspector. The last time he came in, he made some offensive comments, and I blasted him for not showing my staff the respect they deserved, and then told him not to come back until he had learned some manners. By the time he left, he was backpedalling and apologizing and telling me not to take things so seriously.
When I set up my company, I was told very clearly not to offer any bribes to any inspectors, and for the first couple of years, the inspectors that came to my school all told me they could not accept bribes, even before they came into the school to do their job. They were terrified that they would get caught and go to prison!
These people are not looking for bribes.
In more than 10 years of running schools, I've had exactly one person try to ask me for a bribe. He was a drunken off-duty fire inspector who came swaggering in, saying he was going to shut us down if we didn't "pay a fine". I told him quite clearly to GTF out of my school before I called the cops, that I had taken down his license plate number and the ID number on his shirt, and that I expected to never see him again. And I never did.
And why would anyone pay the police a bribe? The police have absolutely nothing to do with enforcing bushiban and/or labor regulations. My only run-ins with the cops have been when they come by to complain about parents blocking traffic while waiting for their kids, or when we when call them about suspicious people lurking around the school.
Stop making comments based on how things might have been 20 years ago, because that ain't how it is now. |
Thanks for stating the obvious. No one said that officers straight out ask for bribes. And yes bride might be the wrong word but many schools give gifts or money so someone in the immigration will inform them when immigration is coming around to do a check. |
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