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Have you had a bad experience with English Time?
Yes (current/former employee)
50%
 50%  [ 2 ]
Yes (other interaction)
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
No (current/former employee)
25%
 25%  [ 1 ]
No (other interaction)
25%
 25%  [ 1 ]
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thrifty



Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1665
Location: chip van

PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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misterkodak



Joined: 04 Apr 2003
Posts: 166
Location: Neither Here Nor There

PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the books are the least of the problem in this "institution". I've attended several "meetings" and "professional development days" to know this. Working for said firm is pretty much the same as working in fast food (I've done that too).Fast food has more respect for employees, raises from time to time, and standards (albeit low). The behavior of management (or lack thereof) is notorious. I remember when 3 teachers were almost killed in the ET "deathmobile" last winter. Said individuals told management that they didn't feel safe with the weather conditions being the way they were and the van being in the state it was (and probably still is).Management's response was "If you don't go, you're fired". The van slid on ice and across the medium and into a ditch.
Typical. I just wonder what would have happened if they had died. Would ET send them home in a yellow big-ben shaped coffin with "do you speak english" written across it? With management like that, the books are the least of their worries. Still, since it is funded with "Green Money" I still wonder the suitability of reading passages about pervs and murderers.
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Baba Alex



Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tararu wrote:
No, it is not the teachers who bare the brunt thank you very much, and l should goddamn know as l am a head teacher at ET. As you don't work at my branch, please do not tell me what it is like. Yes, the books are causing problems, but I think they will do less so when teachers and students have gone through one level and then go onto the next.


You have seen these books? Do they reaslly have a character called "Roger the Rapist"?
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yaramaz



Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Person Whose Name We Cannot Mention does throw good parties though.

I can say no more as I've never taught there either. Baba, shall we commiserate?
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dmb



Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yaramaz wrote:
Baba, shall we commiserate?



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Do they reaslly
I think Baba has had enough already tonight

Laughing happy christmas mate.
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Baba Alex



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yaramaz wrote:
The Person Whose Name We Cannot Mention does throw good parties though.

I can say no more as I've never taught there either. Baba, shall we commiserate?


Yeah, go on then. I'll see down the park with a bottle of vodka at 9.
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