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by h1275
Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:59 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: In 50s ready to relocate: comparing pension options
Replies: 10
Views: 19422

Re: In 50s ready to relocate: comparing pension options

At $76k you're on more than the vast majority of teachers. My advice is stay where you are.
by h1275
Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:58 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Creating fake references
Replies: 26
Views: 51565

Re: Creating fake references

I am but a rational economic agent seeking to maximise his utility. Now, why not do this?
by h1275
Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:29 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Negotiating and Accepting an Offer with a Pregnant Wife
Replies: 14
Views: 20601

Re: Negotiating and Accepting an Offer with a Pregnant Wife

Don't say a word, your personal life is quite frankly none of their business.

Dismissing someone because they had a child is illegal in all civilised countries on the planet, and often even in some uncivilised ones too.
by h1275
Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:59 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Creating fake references
Replies: 26
Views: 51565

Re: Creating fake references

Heliotrope wrote:
> h1275 wrote:
> > Just imagine seriously thinking anyone is going to issue a red notice
> > because you lied about work experience on your CV. Half the world would be
> > in prison.
>
> Definitely not half. Most people won't put fake jobs on their CV.
>
>
> > So there seems to be nothing to lose by trying to deceive an admin.
>
> Only your decency and integrity.

Admin are all worthless anyway, paid plenty to do absolutely nothing all day. Getting one over them is a mark of honour.

Most people lie on their CV to some extent, whether that's extending their employment dates to cover gaps or inflating their actual job responsibilities. If you think interpol would be interested in this, you're totally insane.
by h1275
Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:55 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?
Replies: 37
Views: 51823

Re: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?

Heliotrope:

And if I was caught, I'd be fired, as that behaviour isn't up to the standard that (most) admin would believe is acceptable.

Just because I might behave 'unacceptably' to some paper pusher who spends his day watching youtube, doesn't mean I'm going to accept bad behaviour that affects me.

Vandsmith:

Perhaps, but even if there is no 'legal' obligation at all, there certainly is an obligation to ensure your foreign employee has a place to sleep for the night. Just basic standards of decency.
by h1275
Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:50 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: contract back out repercussions
Replies: 34
Views: 46926

Re: contract back out repercussions

Heliotrope wrote:
> h1275 wrote:
> > This of course assumes the OP gets one of those nice positions, otherwise the
> point
> > is moot.
>
> Well, you have to cancel your current contract first before getting another offer,
> since they will definitely contact your current school if you're applying anywhere
> else, and if they hear that you just signed your contract your current school will
> likely fire you for applying elsewhere after signing, and that other school will no
> longer want to hire you for the same reason.

Then weigh up the chances of obtaining one of those positions vs the risk of quitting and getting nothing. 'Loyalty' or 'sticking to your word' shouldn't come into it, however.
by h1275
Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:50 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?
Replies: 37
Views: 51823

Re: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?

shadowjack wrote:
> Schools in Europe are not bound to offer support in finding accommodation.
> They are 'international', but are governed more by local labour laws and
> taxation laws.

If you're going to pull 'the law' out, I'm pretty sure no where is legally bound by statute to help their employees find accommodation. That's also completely irrelevant. It goes without saying that if you recruit someone from overseas you don't just let them arrive at the airport and sort everything out themselves in a foreign language and with little knowledge of the local laws regarding renting.

Or if you want to start talking about legal obligations are all that matter, well, by that line of thinking, you're not legally obligated to show up at work on Monday morning. It's not a legal requirement that you put your best effort into the job. No where in the law of the land will it say I can't have 15 beers on a work night. Do you see where I'm going with this? There's certain standards of behavior that one should expect, and if they aren't met, cutting and running is a perfectly reasonable option.
by h1275
Sat Jan 04, 2020 8:23 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: contract back out repercussions
Replies: 34
Views: 46926

Re: contract back out repercussions

Heliotrope wrote:
> h1275 wrote:
> > Just cancel the contract with the first school and take the better offer.
> > In any other industry, an employee who gets an offer for more money/a nicer
> > location/better career prospects would drop their old employer without a
> > care in the world, and it's no different here. You have to look after
> > number 1, no one else will.
>
> What better offer? Read the OP's question again.

This of course assumes the OP gets one of those nice positions, otherwise the point is moot.
by h1275
Sat Jan 04, 2020 7:09 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: contract back out repercussions
Replies: 34
Views: 46926

Re: contract back out repercussions

Just cancel the contract with the first school and take the better offer. In any other industry, an employee who gets an offer for more money/a nicer location/better career prospects would drop their old employer without a care in the world, and it's no different here. You have to look after number 1, no one else will.
by h1275
Sat Jan 04, 2020 6:38 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?
Replies: 37
Views: 51823

Re: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?

Heliotrope wrote:
> h1275 wrote:
> > Not helping someone find a place to live after you've employed them from
> > overseas goes way beyond 'bad treatment', and more into the realm of a
> > human rights violation.
> >
> > Run, and don't look back. They've left you in a hostel ffs, how much worse
> > can it get?
>
>
> Wow, you really don't know what actual human rights violations are, do you?
> I've seen schools where the HR department was crap, but the rest of the school was
> pretty good.
> Give it a chance, and if after doing so you wanna run, you can always do so then.
>
> Plenty of schools put you up in a hostel for the first few weeks while you look for a
> place to live, but then the school finds and pays for that hostel, and puts you in
> contact with real estate agents. So yes, bad treatment.

No, plenty of schools put you up in a hotel for a couple of weeks. What OP is talking about is a hostel, i.e. a dorm room where he shares that space with several other people, often sleeping in a bunk bed. And the school didn't even arrange that, for all they care the OP could be sleeping on the street.

Problem with finding a place (on your own) and then running, is you'll probably have to pay a couple of months rent up front along with a housing deposit alongside signing a lengthy contract, and all this money won't be recouped after the school confirms what we already know - that it's a terrible place to work. The OP should absolutely take the first paycheck and run.
by h1275
Sat Jan 04, 2020 5:31 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?
Replies: 37
Views: 51823

Re: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?

Not helping someone find a place to live after you've employed them from overseas goes way beyond 'bad treatment', and more into the realm of a human rights violation.

Run, and don't look back. They've left you in a hostel ffs, how much worse can it get?
by h1275
Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:23 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Creating fake references
Replies: 26
Views: 51565

Re: Creating fake references

Interpol? Just LOL, let's be realistic, that's never ever going to happen.

Just imagine seriously thinking anyone is going to issue a red notice because you lied about work experience on your CV. Half the world would be in prison.

If you find out, sure you won't employ me. But you wouldn't employ me if I told the truth that I'd skipped out on a bunch of contracts before either. So there seems to be nothing to lose by trying to deceive an admin. Yes, you'll get caught sometimes, I certainly wouldn't expect a 100% success rate. But that's better than the 0% success rate the truth would have.
by h1275
Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:35 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?
Replies: 37
Views: 51823

Re: Feeling very stressed in my new city - Advice?

Why would you stay at a place where you are left to sleep in a dorm room and the admin clearly don't give a damn about you? Just LOL if you would put up with such treatment because of some worthless piece of paper you signed.
by h1275
Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:32 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Creating fake references
Replies: 26
Views: 51565

Re: Creating fake references

Heliotrope:

I can't change careers since this is really the only job you can get that allows you to travel overseas with ease. Plus, would take too long to retrain and I've no desire to do so anyway, since it's a pretty easy job all in all, and in most places you get to salarymog the locals and bang their women.

It's not about running out of women, but the same type gets boring after a while. Let's say you teach in Korea, but then you want a different look, and so go to Poland, and then you fancy something else, so go to South America - that's the type of difference I'm talking about.

I can't really list my teaching experience because then if they contact the school, the school will probably say I quit without any notice and give me a bad reference. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

Wrldtrvlr123:

It's more a preemptive strike against future possible consequences. So far I've been able to bounce around among the third tier quite easily but I've been able to play off either that I was newly graduated, or that I was attending to sick relatives, or on a gap year, or doing private tutoring etc. This all becomes a bit unsustainable when it's several years since you graduated from your ITT course, and major red flags start to show at that point.

Plus, I don't really want to be on step 1 of the scale forever, it'd be cool if I could get credit for all my years, start of higher, then one day promote myself to the ranks of the lazy incompetents who make up the admin team of every school around the globe, then I too could get paid 3x more than the teachers for doing nothing except holding pointless meetings and shuffling paper round on my desk.