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Glen Denton · Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 21

I have seen a job by this school in Taichung that sounds like a really good offer. So what's the catch? Any information would be helpful.
Glen

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

In Chinese the name is pronounced Wega, it is the Taichung branch of Wego school in Yang Ming Shan.
If you have no problem working for a school named after a former director of the secret police who was personally responsible for the disappearance and murder of hundreds and possibly thousands of political prisoners there is another factor to take into consideration.
Here is a discussion on the school in question.
http://www.tealit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9113&highlight=wego#9113
There have been more than twenty verified complaints filed on the school over the last ten years. Some of them are downright terrifying.
Extreme caution is recommended.

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

For all you KMT stalwarts out there.
Wego Chiang
Nazi Sympathizer and collaborator.
http://www.gebirgsjaeger.4mg.com/kopold3.htm
The White terror
The tension burst into the open in the February 28 massacre of 1947, when a small incident in Taipei led to island-wide demonstrations. The Kuomintang was initially taken aback, but secretly sent troops from China, which started to round up and execute a whole generation of leading figures, students, lawyers and doctors. In all, between 18,000 and 28,000 people were killed. During the "white terror" of the following years, thousands of people were arrested, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by the KMT's highly repressive KGB-style security apparatus, the Taiwan Garrison Command.
http://www.taiwandc.org/white-p1.htm
Gen. Wego Chiang, secretary-general of the National
Security Council
http://portal.gio.gov.tw/cna/20030701/20030701101747.html
How many people this school has harmed is debatable as is the murderous history of the man the school is named after.

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

Glen Denton · Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 21

trukesehammer · Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 168 Location: The Vatican

http://www.eslcafe.com/jobinfo/asia/sefer.cgi?display:1084514970-57157.txt

This will tell you all you need to know. If not, please feel free to zap me a line. The bottom line: good school until the Hess Rejects came along and screwed everything up.

But that was back in 2000. Who knows? They may have gotten their act back together by now.

Your Most Humble, Loyal, Faithful, Grovelling-at-Your-Feet Servant,

trukesehammer
[email protected]

ScottSommers · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 82 Location: Taiwan

I have never worked there, but one of my colleagues taught there for several years before he came to Ming Chuan. Like others here, his main concern was that the amount of work was getting too heavy for him. Otherwise, when I asked him about working there, he said it was fine.

I suggest caution with some of the complaints voiced on links to this posting. The link to tealit
http://www.tealit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9413&sid=3ad8ba842877ba826b840702392a578f
had one writer stating that some bad things happened to 2 other people. On a different website, someone posting under the same name claimed that a similar event happen to him.

It's also noteworthy that the long, detailed, and well informed answer to the often repeated alllegation about a health insurance scam at Wego
http://www.tealit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9568&sid=3ad8ba842877ba826b840702392a578f
went unanswered.

trukesehammer · Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 168 Location: The Vatican

Hi, Scott!

Your colleague at Ming Chuan wouldn't happen to be a CBC, would he? Kinda handsome, married to a French girl, soft-spoken? If so, he is the only reason I was able to restrain myself from strangling a couple o' those HESS REJECTS. IMHO, that colleague of yours is a good guy and one of the best English teachers in Taiwan.

tkh

ScottSommers · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 82 Location: Taiwan

It is a small world, isn't it. I agree that he's a great guy. When I see him on the bus, I'll pass on your comments.

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

trukesehammer · Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 168 Location: The Vatican

As for the health insurance and KMT/Mob connections and deportations, I can neither confirm nor deny your reports, Aristotle.

However, I CAN substantiate your claim about the apartment burglaries. Back around the Turn of the Millennium when I worked there, Wego used to own an old Japanese hot spring / brothel in Xin Beitou, which they converted into dorms for the teachers. Of course, most of the tennants were us foreign types and we were ALWAYS having problems with stuff missing.

Especially around Chinese New Year when we'd all run off on vacation. The problem was mostly with the "Zhong Wu Chu" or Office of General Affairs. These guys were the biggest pains in the butts! It seemed their only reason for existence was to make teachers' lives, especially the lives of us foreign teachers, miserable. Lots of stories here (come to think of it, they were ALWAYS skimming money off our salaries and probably were responsible for the "Health Insurance Scam" you're mentioning) and there simply ain't enough time or room, so let's get back to my testimony.

At the end of Chinese New Year vacation, we'd always come home and the entire dorm building would shake with the sounds of our swearing. Cell phones, pagers, CDs, my piggy bank full of NT$50 coins, NOTHING was sacred. It was precisely then that I learned to stop accumulating stuff that has any monetary value. It was also then that I began to pay close attention to our Cleptomaniac Cleaning Lady, who worked for the Department of General Affairs.

I noticed that every once in a while, the CCL would forget to lock various storage room doors. To make a long story short, I happened to have a friend who was a locksmith and we eventually made a MASTER KEY for the entire dorm building. Armed with this new master key, all us foreign teachers let ourselves into the CCL's main hideout and...

MY PAGER!
MY BOOKS!
MY CD COLLECTION!
MY CELL PHONE!
MY STEREO!

It was just like Christmas again. Very Happy

Of course, a semester later they kicked everybody out and closed the dorm building. But we also succeeded in taking the CCL and the Dean of General Affairs down with us. I didn't stick around to see the dust settle, though. I went back to the States for my PhD.

Hope this helps. And keep up the good work, Ari...