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Lobster · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:53 pm Post subject: Poll: FTs and Respect

So, what is your personal feeling about your fellow FTs? Just your general impression. Do they have your respect? Like any poll, it's not perfect, so no comments on the categories please; just vote and add your comments on FTs in China.

petebeatstreet · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:43 pm Post subject:

I've met all of the above, in equal quantities. I would have voted for all if given the opportunity.

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

In such an unregulated industry it's easy to come across all five types and I have seen them all.

At my current place of employment one FT goes from 2 to 3 and back again - and the rest I would rate as 4s. We all respect one another generally speaking but the respect for the 2/3 comes and goes depending on what he's up to at that moment in time. As for the students we all teach the same classes (with minor variations) and I know most of them (the students themselves) respect us for the effort we put into the job, again less so for the first FT listed above.

igorG · Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 1473 Location: asia

Nice party on. At least that you respect the forums Wink

Oh, i respect the FTs and their students

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

Miajiayou · Joined: 30 Apr 2011 Posts: 283 Location: Nanjing

milkweedma · Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 151

This is a really nasty poll based around a competitive 'winners and losers' neo-liberal critique (mentality) where a certain proportion of the population are deemed to be surplus to economic requirements.
Do it the service it deserves and ignore it.

Lobster · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:40 am Post subject:

This poll, as nasty as it may be, is based on the comments made by forum members over the years. It is not based on a "winners vs. losers" approach, but more on a "professional vs. unprofessional" one. Certainly you are free to construct your own, less-biased version. "Neo-liberal"? Geez, I saw one of those once. It was riding on a unicorn.

RED

Scott 1955 · Joined: 18 Jun 2011 Posts: 51

7969 · Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 5782 Location: Coastal Guangdong

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

I've seen a lot of early 20's lately who can easily get a job back home but are very selective in their job thus prefer the laid back life.

Miles Smiles · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1294 Location: Heebee Jeebee

Most of the FTs I've known and worked with were good workers, intent upon fulfilling their contracts and being the best teachers they can be. The young sex tourists who arrive sporting backpacks and goatees wash out pretty fast.

I have worked with psychos who made life an unremitting hell for everyone around them. They, too move on.

In my own experience, there are the westerners who have "other" jobs doing some sort of engineering work or who have some sort of business that allows them to stay in China. Invariably, they take the private teaching jobs at home schools. They are part of the mix and are often the ones who bring negative attention to the actual teachers.

igorG · Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 1473 Location: asia

cormac · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 768 Location: Xi'an (XTU)

Lobster · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:42 am Post subject:

I'm not asking for an in-depth assessment or professional evaluation. I'm asking for people's feelings and opinions. If you don't like it, feel free to 'manipulate' your own poll. I already stated that this one, like any poll, has weaknesses, and asked that people refrain from making comments on the questions themselves. But there always going to be some bozo who can't get it. The idea is to provide a range from very bad to very good. Nobody has to justify their opinion here and I'm not going to justify the poll. If you don't like it, move on.

RED