Topic: When your co-worker flies into a raging bull for no apparent reason

[airpuka]

hey if you got a real degree and wnat to work your self out of debt maybe you should work korea for 6 months, they have 6 month work visas and will pay good money, thats where im at now, though ill be back to thailand within 4 months

pm me if you need any help with that

[ben]

Thanks airpuka, it's not a whole load of debt to be honest, just the phone, i'll have it paid off in a few days, though still i''ll probably need to work till at least september, it would be nice to see out my contract but I was and still am somewhat unsure what is going to happen next at this place, since it would seem I have inadvertently made some enemies, I guess really that is going to happen.

Anyhow any big move like that is going to have to involve some saving for me, I have a bunch of friends that have just up'd and left moving on to pastures greener so to speak, i've heard Korea can be a little boring however there is a fair bit of cash to be made, one of my friends mentioned working in Saudi Arabia saying that in 3 months he got 16,000 pounds, 30 odd thousand US dollars, which is fantastic for 3 months worth of work, apparently it was teaching corporate gigs out there and actually he has several years of experience, I think if i'm right a degree in history, I might be wrong it may have been 6 months worth of work but previously he had been teaching TEFL in Poland and by all accounts although a brilliant experience somewhat of a let down on the salary front.

I may however be in touch, thanks for the mention

Ben

[dwwin]

computer is playing up, I have vista installed on it,

For this alone you deserve getting fired. Yeah, that's right, another ICT pro.

Now seriously, I wouldn't resign or do a runner. Make them fire you is the better solution. You sound like you could very well do with those 3 month severance pay. It's become sort of a paranoia within the foreign teacher's community here that you can never win in a court of law. The Thai labour court is surprisingly very much 'labourer' inclined.
If you get fired, probation or not doesn't matter, take all your paper work and go to Sunbelt and they'll sort you out. A sub soi Sukhumvit lawyer won't do. The first consultation is free and you pay after you've won. This way you basically don't pay out of your own pocket. I've just received the remaining 16k from a school I haven't been working for since January and that just by following their advice. The nice thing about LOC is that 99.9% of the employers don't know how to write a real contract.

Your other, as well as M$ Vista related, option is: 

Disclaimer: I'm in no way an advertiser for, nor related or married to Sunbelt.

[ben]

LOL, thanks for the advice, not a fan of vista, are you? LOL, I have just reverted back to XP, however I have just installed some autopatcher software on it and it is either that or the worm that infected the computer previously which is now causing further problems with windows and internet explorer, now every time I write an address in the address bar I get a critical error message saying "the request lookup key was not found in any active activation context" however if I use the windows live toolbar that bypasses that error so does not trigger that event?? Anyway going back to the original story at hand, I shall take your advice, it may well blow over but I doubt it, we'll see

thanks again

ben