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foster · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 485 Location: Honkers, SARS

I was promised and received the cheapest one-way fare to my current destination and was also re-imbursed a portion of the extra baggage that I paid for.

If it is in the contract, it is expected to be honoured.

I consider myself lucky, since I only waited 4 months to get my money back. I know some people who waited 14 months. Rolling Eyes

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

So the OP was in Jakarta huh? Weren't working for EF by any chance were you? Wink

More than a few dodgy schools there if I remember correctly...

Snoopy · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 185

Never had a problem with employers in the Middle East. However, the best free ticket was a bribe from a Saudi student which allowed me go back to the UK for a few weeks during the Hajj holiday. He got good marks. Unfortunately, it had to be Saudi Airlines where he had the connections, but don't look a gift camel . . .

willy · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject:

Ok so there is hope, now I will just wait and see what happens with my visa. More to come�..

no no no!! never EF my friend got hit by her boss at EF.

Alex Shulgin · Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 553

A friend of mine worked for EF back in '97 and he is still waiting to be paid for his plane ticket. He wasn't working for one of the dodgy franchises, he was working for an EF owned school.

Snoopy · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 185

Sorry for the customary note of frivolity, but at the end of my first contract in the Kingdom of SA, I got a ticket. Although I had booked it well in advance and heard the travel agent dictating the spelling of my name (you can't say Whisky, it's Washington), I found that my surname had been transliterated from Arabic and back again. I was Mr Peanut.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Peanut ? Snoopy ? Am I dense ? i do not follow this at all.

Incidentally teaching students Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, etc is a good filler if ever you need something for a lesson. Just remember that in Saudi W is Washington ( as I suspect it was in the US during prohibition !)

khmerhit · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

When I was in Kampuchea, I heard about a predecessor at my school who was an ex-military guy. He would show up in the morning with a big bottle of Angkor beer, apparently. He was teaching kindergarten, so he taught the alphabet using the alpha bravo charlie stuff--- in fact that's what he taught them! Needless to say, i bet the kids were mystified.
---happy new milleniuum,
kh