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[vamanos12]

No one seemed clear on what would happen if you left before HCT's established probation, and by no one, I also mean HCT's HR Representatives.

So here it is to the best of my understanding.

For the first year of the three year contract you must give 3 months notice, and after the first year 6 months notice.

What happens if you don't give three months notice? Well, I tried to copy a picture of a rectal exam since I think that best describes it, but since the picture wouldn't paste, I'll explain.

1.You will have to pay back a pro-rated amount of the 30,000 they handed to you when you got here.
2. They will give you a money for a repatriation ticket
3. THIS IS THE BIG ONE THAT THEY NEGLECTED TO TELL ME WHEN I ASKED: they will charge you for each day (same amount you'd be paid) you didn't work within the probation notice. In my example, I told them I would leave mid-year after the first semester. Evidently this was one month short of the 3 month notice, so they charged me $6,000 for the one month I didn't work and violated the 3 month notice rule.

Now, I'm not saying this is so horrible and unruly. I mean, are all rectal exams bad? However, what was really crap was HR. Before I making my mind up I tried to ask them for specifics about leaving and the consequence, and they failed to let me know that I would be charged for the time I didn't give in notice. Now, luckily this just cost me $6,000 (just), but had I not understood this and left with no notice, they could have surprised me with an $18,000 tab to leave this blessed country.

So.....this is my gift to DAVES ESL.....a hard-earned bit of knowledge I'm offering up.

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[vamanos12]

I know. It's hard to explain clearly since it's so ridiculous. HCT asks you to give them 3 months notice before you leave. I can understand this; however, I gave them 2 months notice and said I'd leave after the end of the first semester because in my own mind I though, "Why would they want me to start another semester and just leave after a month...etc..." When I asked the HR person she only told me about paying back the pro-rated 30,000 getting started money. What she didn't tell me was that if you leave sooner that the 3 month notice period, they will charge you for?? not giving them notice. So the one month I didn't give them in notice they actually charged me the money they would have paid me by working. I just found out about it and have to get clarity.
It's messed up. Someone did advise me to just take off over Christmas, but I have such a guilty paranoid conscious that I knew that wouldn't work for me.
I'll get over it, but I"m going to raise a little fuss over the incompetence of the HR in explaining my contract.

Well, at least I can say I tried it and came out with just a little change in my pocket. I was always curious about what it was like over here, and now I've seen it. Funny, some people stay for 17+ years, so it must work for them, but for me no. The boys are too unmotivated and contentious and the country is too sterile and strangely conservative for this hippy American.

[douglas1969]

Why are you leaving so soon? Just curious.

[veiledsentiments]

If you read her past posts, she talks about her issues with the male students. They can be a handful.

VS

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[douglas1969]