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[brasscat]

Guess who is operating their own recruiting company, because no one will go to Hail?

Tubla, Inc. is the name and UOH owns it.

Guess who has welched on paying Al-Falak for 5 months, their primary referal place for new teachers?

Of course it is UOH.

Payday was June 5th for Al-Falak employees, guess who won't be paid until the 17th?

Al-Falak teachers at UOH.

Guess who has their male teachers dressing weird in order to video tape lessons for the women's school?

UOH! Why? Most of the woment teachers have quit.

"The road to Hail is paved with pretensions"
Sayings of Chaircat Meow

brasscat

[cassava]

Check your facts very carefully, brasscat. I strongly suspect that the company to which you are referring is owned by an individual who was once closely associated with the University of Hail. I doubt that KFUPM, which still maintains some residual control over the financial affairs of UOH, would allow the latter to own a recruiting company.

Furthermore, if teachers are unwilling to go to Hail when Al-Falak is the recruiter, why would a new company, lacking experience in recruiting faculty, be more successful than its predecessor?

[brasscat]

The subject of the new recruiting company came-up in a faculty meeting.

True, it does seem odd KFUPM hasn't weighed in yet.

UOH, however publicly says it is now independant of KFUPM. Again, it does not explain where the main part of the operating funds are coming from.

I am awaiting a reply from an Al-Falak repesentative. I did ask about the status of current contract teachers.
brasscat

[Bebsi]

[brasscat]

Nothing was discussed at the facuty meeting concerning the details of ownership. This has been a common hallway question for the last week.

Situation now is; no pay, who is returning, and when are you leaving?

The post final environment is very negative.
Brasscat

[trapezius]

[brasscat]

Yes, I am aware of the somewhat odd dress in the class room. But that isn't comparitively weird, just sloppy.

Weird meaning, somewhat like a native dressed female, as in head covering.

Hey, I didn't volunteer for the videos, not in my contract.

When in Hail, the unusual is normal, weird is just entertainment.
brasscat

[Bebsi]

Retribution would surely be meted out to the culprits, as this is a serious offence in KSA.

Hmmm...an interesting clause in the contract:

"the contractor hereby agrees to carry out all duties assigned by the employer to him, including...
..............

(iii) the donning and wearing of female attire in the classroom, for the purposes of gender misrepresentation to the students of the Women's Campus of the said employer's educational institution, or for other purposes designated by the employer, and he shall not object in any way to such investment of said attire;

(iv) in the event that the said misrepresentation be discovered and revealed and the laws, customs and traditions of Saudi Arabia be perceived to have been breached and/or violated, then notwithstanding Art. 7 hereof which states that the contractor shall obey, honour and respect the said laws, customs and traditions, the Director of the English Language Centre at the employer's place of work or such other persons invested with such authority, shall be held liable for the said breach and/or violation and shall fully indemnify the contractor and, where applicable all third parties, in respect of said breach and/or violation and of any any penalties, liabilities, retributions and/or other losses arising from the said unlawful actions;

(v) in the event of an action as described in subsection (iv) above, the said Director of ELC in the course of his assuming full liability and responsibility, shall be forcibly invested of the conventional female attire as is in keeping with the laws, customs and traditions of Saudi Arabia, with the exception that his face shall be exposed, and shall be bound to the village stocks or equivalent thereof, where he shall have wet and soiled female undergarments and accessories thrown at him for a period of a full Hejira year, and shall have the full facts (and much more) of his punishment conveyed in the printed media such as the Sun, the News of the World and orther organs of print in the UK and worldwide."

[trapezius]

[Bebsi]

I suspect that Brasscat is saying that because of a severe shortage of female teachers in the Women's campus, male teachers are being asked to do videotaped or videoconferenced lectures for the female students, and are required to wear female garb to pretend to be of that gender.

However, that wouldn't make sense, because even in KSA it is perfectly acceptable for men to appear to women on video, so why dress them up to pretend otherwise?

Unless...and this would be very serious...they were being sent over to the Women's college to teach in classrooms there. It would also be extremely risky; the girls would easily figure out the ruse, and any man being caught masquerading as a woman and thus gaining entry to female-only places, would face very severe punishment. As I had suggested in my earlier less-than-serious posting, any management member ordering a teacher to do this would also face severe punishment...much worse than the village stocks in fact!!

[brasscat]

Yes, UOH is indeed in the throes of a major female teacher depletion.

From Jan. 2007 til now, 18 out of 24 females have left. Including 2 directors.

Hail joke: Will the last person to leave kindly take down Stan's posters. Reason, someone might make a mistake and learn something.

brasscat

[Bebsi]

Hail hath no fury like a woman scorned?

Hail, the land of sunny Smails?

I am given to understand that things move very slowly there...at a Smail's pace in fact!!

[brasscat]

Yes, indeed the biology of the Desert Smail is remarkable.

Totally indigestable to any thinking creature, it is left to its daily migration between old hell and new hell. In recent times however, it has been observed residing in fem-hell.

Finals, the word alone evokes at time of total kaos and confusion.
Of course at UOH it is a test of the Shabobs and their wiley skills at cheating.

What happens when a final exam gets compromised?
At good old hell, it means a retest of the final, complete with a student riot to make life livelly.
brasscat

[Balzac]

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