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[thegoodprofessor]

Advice: Don't do it. Try to work directly for MOHE. I've now tried out two different recruiters and I can say only that one is slightly worse than the other. I thought the first one was bad as they kept siphoning off of my paycheck and argued with me when I first arrived that they couldn't pay me until I had a bank account but of course one cannot have a bank account here without a resident card which "they" have to do. I had a very difficult time finding housing and they were of no help. They left me abandoned at the airport at midnight and when I called she said, "sorry I'm sleeping".

Experience 2 "british company" (ahhh they were soooo nice on the phone!) they are the WORSE... run by a husband/wife team with the man supposedly the field director but instead is ruled by his wife, people prying into our home life, arrival to a cockroach ridden flat, "blame management" ie. (since they are being paid to get us, the professors situated we must ask them for our needs) but they find a way to weasle out of doing anything, and if something is wrong they make it your fault. If I say my couch is filthy, they say, "we will decide that". Snotty attitude, incorrigible and they think that we are in a class situation with them at the top and we the professors at the bottom. phew that feels good to get off my chest.

[veiledsentiments]

But, aren't you teaching EFL? Professors are normally treated much better than we TEFLers.

VS