International House a well-known organization has now appeared in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia in the industrial boomtown of Jubail. The reputation of professional and timely delivery of good teaching service and proper treatment of instructors is however NOT their forte.
They are a notoriously underhanded fly-by-night outfit that has a "charge sheet" that would read well alongside a cheap and sleazy crime novel. The crimes of the internationally renowned and respected organization in Saudi Arabia read as follows:
In 2005 reports surfaced on Dave's ESL Cafe that a teacher had locked inside his house and denied access to his passport as a result of a heated argument with the management. It later became apparent that total disregard for his human rights were down to the fact that he was a white south african which didn't [and still doesn't] hold much water with the IH management compared to the way a Briton or an American is treated.
Teachers at IH have to be mindful of what they say and who they say it to. The current roster of total deadbeats includes a gang of religious zealots from the UK and a spineless and complacent individual known as Angus who funnily enough also happens to be the DOS.
A culture of spying and reporting is known among the staff who are constantly mindful that anything contrary to the beliefs of the religio-British thought police will most likely land them in a lot of trouble. Incidentally, one of these quacks destroyed a cash register in a restaurant over a dispute involving a check. A Somali-born Brit who is candidly referred to as a "native speaker" abused a Syrian maitre-d and smashed the cash register to retrieve SR 7.
The head honcho A***s, Mr. Moustache himself, was just the other day allegedly given a good pasting by three Tasnee Company students. As if to echo the effect the greasy fists would have had on his furtive brow – his picture mysteriously disappeared from the IH Dhahran website. You’ve all seen it – the one where he stands hunch-doubled with the quintessential 80s man’s “you can do it” pose. Delightful. It will be interesting to see Monsieur A***s in future going on about how great it all is at IH, while he nurses that richly deserved smack in the face.
And get this: the odious Managing Director of the KSA Dhahran chapter
whose links with a major petrochemicals giant has guaranteed his meal ticket in recent years
, is spitting feathers over a teachers’ minimum wage. Long ago a teacher applied to IH to test the water and get a rough idea on remuneration and lodging. Nothing was disclosed and after a face-to-face visit with the crooked Filipino that works at the IH front desk it was revealed that the average teacher’s wage at IH is SR 7000. That includes by the way REALLY tatty accommodation, which you may or may not be imprisoned in depending on how much you suck up to the boss. The MD has been ordered by his clients to pay their teachers a fair wage, which is something upwards of 10 K. Now when your customers tell you to treat your staff properly you ARE doing a lousy job.
So here it is: imprisonment, low pay, poor educational standards [rubber stamping every braindead trainee operator] and violence against the staff – even the connected ones!
People wishing to find work in KSA should think about taking up Pro-Wrestling in the American Mid-West or pursuing healthier and safer pursuits such as ‘pincing’ in the Jim Rose circus. If my sources are correct, the current slurry that is flowing through the corridors of IH include Bahamians, Germans, Lebanese and a few sprinkles of British and American DNA in the mix of cocoa beans, sauerkraut and labaneh. Fuse to this cesspool some religious bigotry and you are there.
Topic: International House - Jubail - KSA (Read 1081 times)