Post by Roger on Feb 28, 2004 0:01:41 GMT 7
Steiner has just written a nice piece about a scam that earned a middle school an extra US$ 50'000 a year by advertising that they had "foreign teachers" who in fact were but on loan.
Now read this:
An African guy found a job in Guangdong via an illegititmate agent (that is a freelance recruiter) with a private training cnetre.
That was pretty exactly eight months ago.
The TC's is friends with the owner of some other business (not education-related), who obligingly got a work visa from the PSB for her African English teacher.
Meanwhile, John had to sign a six month contract although he was given a one-year visa... (can you see the anomaly here?).
The first semester expired right before the spring festival got underway; John was given more than one month off - without pay, travel allowance or bonus...
He did travel around, using up his meagre savings; did I mention the fact that he got paid RMB 3000 a month for 20 periods a week?
Upon returning, he luckily found a part-time job on the side and taught adults for a while before he had to go back to that TC that forced him to sign another 6 month contract...
This week, first week after his holidays, his slave driver madame found out that he was teaching on the side...
Now you can imagine that she began thinking of revenge...
And revenge she did take!
She ordered him to move house from GUANGDONG to MANCHURIA, more specifically: to Harbin, 3500 kms away from his accustomed base!
Not only that, but he had to PAY FOR HIS TRAIN RIDE THERE WITH HIS OWN INCOME!
Now don't you love certain Chinese?
I could wring their necks!
Now read this:
An African guy found a job in Guangdong via an illegititmate agent (that is a freelance recruiter) with a private training cnetre.
That was pretty exactly eight months ago.
The TC's is friends with the owner of some other business (not education-related), who obligingly got a work visa from the PSB for her African English teacher.
Meanwhile, John had to sign a six month contract although he was given a one-year visa... (can you see the anomaly here?).
The first semester expired right before the spring festival got underway; John was given more than one month off - without pay, travel allowance or bonus...
He did travel around, using up his meagre savings; did I mention the fact that he got paid RMB 3000 a month for 20 periods a week?
Upon returning, he luckily found a part-time job on the side and taught adults for a while before he had to go back to that TC that forced him to sign another 6 month contract...
This week, first week after his holidays, his slave driver madame found out that he was teaching on the side...
Now you can imagine that she began thinking of revenge...
And revenge she did take!
She ordered him to move house from GUANGDONG to MANCHURIA, more specifically: to Harbin, 3500 kms away from his accustomed base!
Not only that, but he had to PAY FOR HIS TRAIN RIDE THERE WITH HIS OWN INCOME!
Now don't you love certain Chinese?
I could wring their necks!