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TaoyuanSteve
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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I should add, here, that the above was posted by my girlfriend. You go, girl!  |
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puiwaihin
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: re: review of EZ |
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| squid wrote: |
| As a former EZ English School teacher, puiwaihin, you are being too nice giving an objective review of the school. |
Aren't I?
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| Screaming at the students isn't the only thing the boss is gifted for.... If he ever found out that I wasn't following the prescribed method of teaching he would yell at me in front of students and staff and try to humiliate me. He isn't above attacking his employees personally. He's told me to *beep* off before from some percieved slight against him. |
That part is bad enough for me. Hearing your experience has made me dislike the man even more. I'm now feeling quite lucky that I got out of my contract so early.
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| And on a last note about the contract apparently I'm not allowed to work in town for three years. And I also found out AFTER signing it that I'm the only one who has this in my contract. No one before me has had this and I don't know if anyone after me has had it. |
From what I can tell their contract is a work in progress. It's in my contract as well, but my contract was nullified by mutual agreement so I don't have to worry about that. I'm not sure about the legality of this clause and I think he'd find it very hard to enforce were he to pursue the matter.
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| I STRONGLY caution anyone who wants to work at EZ English School. Keep your heads clear, very, VERY clear. |
If I had read what you went through when I was job hunting I would never have considered the place. Let's hope this helps others stay out of a bad situation. |
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clark.w.griswald
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: Re: re: review of EZ |
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| squid wrote: |
| And on a last note about the contract apparently I'm not allowed to work in town for three years...I don't even think that's legal. Does he think he can try to get rid of me for three years thinking I'll forget by then? |
I don't know of the exact situation in Taiwan regarding such a clause, but I can speak from experience with contracts back home.
This type of exclusivity clause is often legal, but needs to be reasonable to be legally enforceable. For example, a techie working at Microsoft may be legally prevented from undertaking work with a competitor on a similar program. The idea of course being that trade secrets shouldn't be leaked to competitors.
Suggesting that you can't work for three years in the same town would more than likely be unenforceable as it would be considered unreasonable. Besides which, your past employer would need to actively pursue you and I don't see that he would be able to provide enough grounds to get support from any authorities. The fact is that teaching English wouldn't be called a trade secret, and the method which EZ English is using to teach is not new, and not even their idea. I believe that Hua Laoshi was using this technique for years before EZ English picked up on it.
Employers usually put these kind of clauses into contracts to deter you, but they are pretty well unenforceable. |
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TaoyuanSteve
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| I agree. I don't think it's a reasonable clause. I think it was included as a scare tactic because a couple of their teachers opened schools in the neighbourhood. Squid will most likely ignore the clause (or else I may have to change my user name to something that doesn't include Taoyuan ). |
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puiwaihin
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| TaoyuanSteve wrote: |
| I agree. I don't think it's a reasonable clause. I think it was included as a scare tactic because a couple of their teachers opened schools in the neighbourhood. Squid will most likely ignore the clause (or else I may have to change my user name to something that doesn't include Taoyuan ). |
Maybe taoyan  |
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TaoyuanSteve
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| 我們很討厭EZ美語 |
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puiwaihin
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| TaoyuanSteve wrote: |
| 我們很討厭EZ美語 |
沒錯﹗ |
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Taylor
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! This has turned into quite a thread!
Still wondering how many kids go to this place? How many are in an average class there?
Does this guy realize how much of an anally-retentive fanatic he is???
Taylor
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squid
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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