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flyingscotsman
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Location: Suzhou, China
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 Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: My school's "potent" threat |
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A teacher did a runner recently here. Not a surprise as he was the 5th (!!!!) to quit or run since the beginning of the school year.
His buddy was called into a meeting with the headmaster yesterday and the buddy told us the school was angry that he left with no notice.
The school plans to notify the UK embassy about this teacher doing a midnight runner.
Of course this is an idle threat because I can't believe for a minute that the British embassy would care at all that one of their citizens split from a shitty school such as this.
So I should ask you, does a threat like this have any substance at all with a foreign government? I can just imagine this scenario: : "Sir we must interrupt the briefing of the allied attack on Libya to tell you that one of our citizens just pulled a midnight runner from a college in Suzhou, China..."
Why would they even make such a useless idle threat?
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auchtermuchty
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:45 am Post subject: Re: My school's "potent" threat |
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| flyingscotsman wrote: |
Why would they even make such a useless idle threat? |
What threat? |
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flyingscotsman
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:58 am Post subject: Re: My school's "potent" threat |
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| auchtermuchty wrote: |
| flyingscotsman wrote: |
Why would they even make such a useless idle threat? |
What threat? |
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| The school plans to notify the UK embassy about this teacher doing a midnight runner. |
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lee_barttwater
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| Ridiculous. The embassy is not the police. Stupid. Ridiculous. Lame. |
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LanGuTou
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Doing a "Midnight Run" is a breach of contract and can only be dealt with through legal action.
Even if this school were to approach the embassy which I do not believe they would in a million years, the reply that they would get is to take legal action against the teacher which, of course, they wouldn't.
The same applies for foreign teachers that turn to the embassy for help in matters to do with pay, accommodation etc. The most that the embassy can do is recommend a lawyer that may be able to help you. |
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LanGuTou
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:51 am Post subject: Re: My school's "potent" threat |
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| flyingscotsman wrote: |
Why would they even make such a useless idle threat? |
That part is very obvious. If, as you say, so many FT's have pulled runners, it is a lame, desperate attempt to hang onto the remaining teachers by adopting threats rather than corrective action related to whatever it is that is causing the problem. |
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Teatime of Soul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Bah humbug. A completely useless display of ignorance on the part of the headmaster.
You want to give an FT a Real Threat? Threaten to hold English Corners in the school FTs favorite nighttime hangout.
Every single day, for a month after someone does the midnight run.
That will send chills up the spine.
Cheers. |
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therock
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Teatime of Soul wrote: |
You want to give an FT a Real Threat? Threaten to hold English Corners in the school FTs favorite nighttime hangout.
Every single day, for a month after someone does the midnight run.
That will send chills up the spine.
Cheers. |
It'll do the trick, but sounds like punishment from a concentration camp. |
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auchtermuchty
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Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:28 am Post subject: Re: My school's "potent" threat |
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| flyingscotsman wrote: |
| auchtermuchty wrote: |
What threat? |
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| The school plans to notify the UK embassy about this teacher doing a midnight runner. |
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But that's not really a threat, is it? It's just something they are going to do. |
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burntout
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:41 am Post subject: Re: My school's "potent" threat |
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| flyingscotsman wrote: |
The school plans to notify the UK embassy about this teacher doing a midnight runner.
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PLANS is most probably the operative word 
Same as a class plans / promises to do homework
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Teatime of Soul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:10 pm Post subject: Re: My school's "potent" threat |
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| auchtermuchty wrote: |
| flyingscotsman wrote: |
| auchtermuchty wrote: |
What threat? |
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| The school plans to notify the UK embassy about this teacher doing a midnight runner. |
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But that's not really a threat, is it? It's just something they are going to do. |
Then why broadcast this "plan" except for the goal of intimidating current teachers? It was intended as a threat, certainly.
That it is a toothless threat spouted by a paper tiger of an administrator makes it no less than what it was intended.
I hope the Embassy has such calls routed to an offshore call center of non English speakers who can only recites from a script designed to assist those assembling a gas fired outdoor barbecue. |
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