Job Discussion Forums

[theoriginalprankster]

I joined a newish education company in SH last year, and recently signed on for another year.

I immediately noticed that the manager of our team had all the qualities of a micro-manager. However I put it down to me having worked autonomously for the last dozen years.

So I sucked it up. I'll still can't bear sitting in the office wasting my life. Would rather be teaching. Create my lessons, teach and be done.

Now there is a new head teacher who is complaining. Mind you, not to my face, but rather to the manager.

The pace of the class is not fast enough, and not to his liking. So the manager is grovelling at his feet, and BOTH of them are hounding me.

I KNOW my lessons are good and suited to the students' capabilities. I know I manage them and the time well. I KNOW I'm good.

I'm not sure I can stick out another 11 months of the new contract with these two. I did forewarn the manager I would consider leaving at Chinese New Year if my health was not doing well (SH winters do my respiratory system in). I could last until then.

I'm used to autonomy, not micro-management.

I guess 11 months is not a long time. But life is short.

Your take? Not from the ones who will tell me me "you signed the contract, you knew the blah blah blah". You - don't bother answering.

[The bear]

[jimpellow]

I think getting out at New Year's is a good idea. Hopefully, the terms of the contract will allow you a hopeful relatively hassle free departure.

I guess the thing to decide would be the stated reason for the departure. Should you bring up the micro-management or not? I highly doubt they will change even if your leaving was stated as the main reason. Hence, if it were for me I would see it more for maintaining self-respect. But by doing so, I would suppose one would open the door to more unpleasantness than blaming it on the pollution.

Yes, life is too short...

[rogerwilco]

Take care of the problem the Chinese way.

Tell them that you will follow their suggestions, and then continue to do your classes as you prefer.

[kev20]

[Non Sequitur]

Get out - and go where exactly?
You need a strategy.
NS

[thechangling]

Just follow your gut feeling. If you're not happy, then prepare to leave and start arranging another job to go to if that's what you really want to do.
Life's way too short to put up with other peoples shite. That's the motto I tend to live by (or at least try to). Good luck.

[theoriginalprankster]

[rogerwilco]

[theoriginalprankster]

[jimpellow]

Definitely sounds like a bad situation...

"This is the crux of the matter. No point leaving and heading into the wilderness. After all the nonsense I could do with a month in the Philippines. I tried taking six months off, and managing a friend's bar in Cambodia. Wasted all my saved up money, and headed back to China with nothing."

So after I fled China after five years, I took a route that you seem to be considering. After a 6 month stint in Saudi the last 4 years have been in the Philippines, Mexico, Colombia(my favorite ever), Panama and now back in Mexico enjoying an insane 20 pesos to a dollar.

All my active income has been online. But the Internet has often been an issue, especially in the Philippines.

However, I have an American friend in the Philippines who does the same and he turned me on to a service called Speedify. Allows one to bind different kinds of Internet connections. Works beautifully in terms of much better speed and reliability. Also a product called a Bear Extender, which is a bit of an investment.

I am stating this as it really opens up options if you decide to leave China and want to resettle to a location which is desirable and cheap, but you worry how to be able to make good money without good Internet.

[theoriginalprankster]