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[tortuga78]

A colleague and I have been disappointed working here and have left five weeks into our jobs here. Be sure to get a contract before you go, and be aware that the owner, while complying with it, might say uninformed and/or untrue things to make it seem better than it is. Get anything you deem important in writing. The pay is low, the city dull and polluted, the flat a 25-min. walk from school, and the owner stingy and incompetent at running a serious place for learning. He's also emotionally immature and a bad listener, though he fancies himself quite a charmer. Oh, and there's no work visa so it's basically illegal work. If you have any questions you can email me at [email protected]. I recommend it only to the desperate.

[tortuga78]

Oh and if you leave you might get a threatening email like this. Owner runs the school as if it were a racket and he a gangster:

"I know that you are in xxxx and it will not be difficult for me to find you there with the police don't worry... You had to tell me that you will not work at least 10 days ago before the holiday began,you didn't want to lose also this job if anything goes bad there,this is not ethic really,I really can not believe that it is you that have done this to me but you will not be able to work also there honey,I promise you! everyday in the school wait the police and me beginning from the Monday.You will learn to behave like this."

[PC Parrot]

I'm sorry that you had to experience this.

There are far too many Turkish men of the type you described - largely due to the fact that too many of the less-well-off families treat their boys like little kings ...

And due to the triumph of ego over what little reason they may once have possessed, too many of them never manage to shake the effects of this pampering off - despite being surrounded every day by walls of evidence contradicting their kingly status

These little boys grow up to become pig-headed pigs - known by the better educated and well mannered Turks as maganda. Turks will tell you themselves that the migration of thousands upon thousands of these maganda have ruined the larger towns and cities of western Turkey.

So tell your ex-boss he's an ignorant maganda who was lucky to graduate from high-school and that he shouldn't meddle in matters about which he knows nothing - namely, education. That should piss him off.