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millie
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| The Master of Invention wrote: |
| Grapevine stories are always better than real life stories, or so it would seem! |
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Super Mario
Joined: 27 May 2005
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Location: Australia, previously China
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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Indeed!
Be more grateful for lies and broken promises.
After all "The Master Blaster" says it's cool!! |
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Louras
Joined: 24 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:19 am Post subject: Feeding his habit |
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| Roger goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. Blaming the teacher.......................I'm so sick of writing the same thing about him. |
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vikdk
Joined: 25 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| Biggest trouble with our mate roger is that the pollution he serves up here often takes away the focus from the real discussion - yeah he's funny and great entertainment value, but after a while we all have to stand back and realize the guy is actually trying to be serious - which makes most of his efforts seem either sad, nasty or downright ludicrous! |
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LeiShan
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree that too many "westerners" come here and expect that they can just transpose their beliefs and values onto the Chinese system. When something doesn't work out the way they want, they are often too quick to scream foul! |
Though I tend to agree, let's not be grandiose here. C'mon, he only wanted his freaking watermachine.* I think we can all agree it's a pretty darn useful little machine, especially in a country with unsanitary tap water. Hoping for that elusive watermachine as per the contract has left many an expat grasping at the proverbial 'small water bottles.'
Side note, it is a little known fact that the now worldly Leishan, five countries to his name, grew up on the eastside Chicago blacktop courts in a world of rusty iron rims and hoop dreams and when he balled it was always: no blood; no foul. I feel you Leishan. All these other foreigners are just a bunch of p-ss- -ss b-tch-s aren't they.
*(and phone line/internet) |
Actually rural Canada but who really cares! |
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Midlothian Mapleheart
Joined: 26 May 2005
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Location: Elsewhere
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Edited to remove offensive content.
Middy
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frank d
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Wow! I just realized what a fool I've been! Why did I waste my time, money, and energy getting two masters degrees and years of teaching experience in America?
All I need to do is listen to Roger, perhaps even be one of his students! Then I could learn everything I need to know about to live a problem-free life in China; and to become a model, upstanding foreigner in a country so loaded with professional ethics and integrity; and how to be an outstanding and dynamic English instructor who is constantly raising the learning standards and practices of my students, and how to avoid listening to these pesty, whining foreign teachers who have nothing better to do with their time than fabricate lies and spread spurious rumors about these paragon institutions of higher learning and English training in China.
Roger, where have you been all my life???
Where do I sign up to learn all the wisdom you have to impart to me, o master? |
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Roger
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| frank d wrote: |
...foreign teachers who have nothing better to do with their time than fabricate lies and spread spurious rumors about these paragon institutions of higher learning and English training in China.
Roger, where have you been all my life???
Where do I sign up to learn all the wisdom you have to impart to me, o master? |
Where have I been??? Silly question! I have experienced far worse than the OP has found to be so life-threatening for himself that he felt the need to warn the public here about his employer!
Whether you can do with or without a "watermachine" - promised or not promised - depends on your own tolerance and mindset. The first time my employer put a water dispenser in my dwelling place was in 2003!
My very first employer put me up in a college guesthouse because my flat was being prepared: the aircon had been riipped out of the wall by a gang of thieves, and no promise was made that I could move in within any given time; I spent weeks there!
My first private businessman employer, after an interlude of my staying in an illegal rooftop structure atop a hotel, moved me into a spacious and beautiful flat - but it came without fridge, computer, telephone; even the mattress was a stained second-hand one that I discarded shortly after taking possesion of my flat.
May I suggest the OP is too pampered to see beyond his own nose? Has he ever had to furnish his own home?
This isn't the first thread that attempts to malign one particular employer just because someone is full of spite and totally inadapted to living in a foreign country!
Where is commonsense? |
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Louras
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: Complaining |
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| I have to agree with Roger. Stop whining and get on with it. Life is too short to complain about being treated unfairly. You would accept this crap in your own country, why not accept it in an unfriendly, foreign environment, you ungrateful incompetents?? |
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