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Midlothian Mapleheart
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tw
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: Re: Revocation of visa? |
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| SimonM wrote: |
| A few people at my school before me broke the contract and it has caused me a few headaches as a result. |
Can you elaborate please Simon? How have their disappearance acts created inconvenience for you? |
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tw
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Volodiya wrote: |
| Speaking hypothetically, with no reference to the OP, a forum thread might be, "What reasonable precautions can an employer take to adequately protect himself against flaky FTs?" |
I think that would be a great thread. Let's put ourselves in the employer's shoe and look at things from their perspective.
For starters, I rather like the idea of a police background check. This eliminates the paedophiles, ripoff artists, women bashers, etc from going to China.
Next, check against a nation-wide registry to see if the FT has broken contract before. If so, why? Was there little or no prior notice or without justifiable reasoning? If the FT was dismissed, then why? Was it for unprofessional/unethical behaviour with students, theft, physical altercation, narcotic consumption?
The flakiest FT I ever met was a year ago. A guy in his mid 20's had just finished teaching in Zhuhai and was in Dalian. Through a fellow Briton who knew one of my co-workers, he got a job at the university I was teaching at (at the end of the term). The university gave him free accomodation (I am very sure it was free) for over a month and even took him to this wlcome-and-farewell dinner, not to mention getting him his FEC and his FRP with multiple entries. He then went to visit my co-worker in Hawaii after she'd finished her 6-month contract and went home (before going to Beijing to teach). Well guess what? He returned to China to teach -- but in Shanghai! He told me that he was to return by the end of August, and the people of the apartment was told early September. It was not until I met a 4th year student who'd been keeping in touch with the co-worker (who I am certain knew of this dink's plan and might have planned it out for him) that I was told that he was not to return to the university. The apartment caretakers wouldn't even believe me until I told them to check the apartment. All his belongs were gone. Dirty pots, pans and dishes were all over the kitchen -- unwashed for a month. Oh yeah he was DEFINITELY gone alright. When I called the FAO, all they could say was "Yeah it doesn't look like he is going to come back here to teach", in a very deflated tone.
There are many bad employers in China, there are also those FT's who are 10 times worse than the bad employers. |
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