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[Demophobe]

Yesterday I am at work, a job I got recently and am still waiting for them to take care of organizing my visa run, and I get a call from my mate. He tells me that his new school, who, in a hiring frenzy, brough 6 teachers onboard recently, and they too haven't sent them fro visas yet, sent him home for the day. Why? They heard at the last minute that the immigration people were coming today, so they freaked and told all of the new teachers to go home, but walk in different directions and use the rear entrances to their respective buildings!! They then began to madly disconnect the computers and hide them, or remove parts from the inside to make them non-functional!!
This school has over 1400 students, so they are by no means fly-by-night. Turns out 3 other teachers are here on a slightly modified work visa, in which they are only employed as consultants(?!) and can't teach, so they too were shooed away.
Anyways, he calls me to tell my boss, as I am also currently visa-less, even though I haven't started teaching yet as we are a new school, not yet open. I tell my boss and he says:
"No problem. We have no business license. They won't come here."
Is this a riot!!?? Nothing ever changes here....hagwons are all underhanded, slippery pirates.

[VanIslander]

Not close to all. But it may seem like it from the several experiences you may have or hear about. I know at least a half dozen decent hagwon owners personally, and have heard of many more.

But it sounds like you've got a bad one. You don't have a binding contract? No visa?

Great. Skip over to another hagwon. But this time make sure you speak with past foreign teachers to hear about their reputation first hand.

Think of this as an opportunity.

Good luck whatever!

[sparkx]

Good Gawd...I need fucking 3-D glasses to read the OP.

[just because]

I had a friend who was in a similar situation but we found a crafty way to get him a vacation.

He was being farmed out to one hagwon 3 times a week.

They wouldn't give him his vacation so we come up with a plan for him to get it.

We got a Korean friend to pretend to be from immigration and say that hey are coming to do spot checks of the hagwons in the area over the next 3 days.

It was hilarious. Every morning we would ring up the director and say we might be in the area today and he would panic, ring up my friend and say not to come in.

It worked SOOOO well, and we did it 3 days straight and he got a 5 day weekend.

Might be time to pull that stunt again.

[Demophobe]

[Demophobe]

[just because]

[jajdude]

That is a funny story. Sad too.

How do you change the type with colors and bold and different sizes and all that goofy jazz? (i'm a bit challenged in these matters)