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[TESOLman]

Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on schools in Zhuhai. I'll likely go there for a few months as a tourist and shop around before making a decision.

[clark.w.griswald]

[vikdk]

[Gregor]

[clark.w.griswald]

[vikdk]

fences clarkie - are there FT factions - are we supposed to take sides - what sides???? Clarkie I'm all for taking the approriate action in the approriate situation - If a big chain company tries to dress itself up in the facade of rightenous and legality, but infact in their small print talk of law breaking, then I find it highly approriate to blow my trumpet and draw this to everyones attention - If I feel that potential FT's could profit from finding their job from within China then I also find it approriate to advertise that fact - it's nothing to do with choosing what side of an imaginary fence to stand on - it's called being felxible and practical when weighing up possible advice I can give to my fellow FT's. But then again I could follow the Clarkie line - keep steady boys don't budge an inch, fire when you see the whites of their eyes

[Gregor]

[pc-pocket]

[Plan B]

[englishgibson]

Gregor, you give such a nice smile around!
How's the EF treating you, really? The Head Office's got all their ears for ya, and employers listening and listening as long as they can understand the language?.?.?.

[Roger]

I suggest a newbie on a tourist or 'F' visa in search of a paying position make sure he or she has at least one month on their visa before it expires - from the day they get hired.
You might need one week for the medical report (in some places the HIV test takes 3 days in the lab), and you never know whether the person in charge of the scanner is at all available on the day you want her to be there; then there are weekends, and some officials clock off work pretty early (my marriage took place IN SPITE OF the registrar who actually wanted to go to a party on that Friday afternoon, 2 p.m.!

Then the PSB take their own time in handling your application. You might find out that one month was...tight!

A VISA EXTENSION is feasible - provided you stay at an approved hotel (that shuffles all registration slips over to the PSB) If it doesn't then you are not officially registered and an extension is out of question!

[Gregor]

I didn't even know that EF had a school in Zuhai. Why are you telling ME about it? It's not MY school. We're not all affiliated or anything you know. It's a franchise, and a Chinese one at that.
One has nothing to do with the other. Thanks for the info, though, I guess.
Yeah, the school I'm at's been treating me great, thanks for asking. We all get paid on time, I already got my flight compensation back (no secret I'm going back to the U.S. pretty soon - think I found a job too, but that's for a different thread), and everything's cool. No one's been cheated, and no one's tried to cheat anyone, for the entire length of my tenure here. As long as you ask. Everything's hunky dunky.

I feel pretty sure that you, englishgibson, or YOU, vikdk ( ) will have some snide, mindless and uneducated/uninformed remark to make about that, but it's not going to change the fact.
Everything's just getting better. As long as you ask, and thanks for asking.

[englishgibson]

Well Gregor, the "uneducated remark" of mine as a followup is that you have been with EF for more than three years, in a Director of Studies position, participated in EF seminars/meetings of Chinese EF chain schools and still write

[vikdk]

no goodbye kiss smiley to use - so you just have to get another

[clark.w.griswald]