To all unsuspecting ,good hearted trusting teachers like me , BE AWARE!
Last december I got recruited at this dodgy , shady school called chitirwittaya on Ram intra soi42 through a questionable agency which by the way was owned by the mother of former Miss Thailand!.Upon starting , some teachers began talking to me about the mess and a trap that they were in and repeatedly warned me about it so, I wont fall victim like they had. At first , I wasn't sure of their true motives and felt there might be some hidden agenda. The teachers told me that for the first two months , they will pay me on time and after they gain my trust , they will start slacking on the pretext that the school was broke. Some of them hadn;t been paid as long as a month and half. I would always ask them why they didn't leave the job and they would respond without any hesitation that they were too afraid to leave because , they would never see that money ever as sign of revenge on the part of the school owner.So I decided to confront the school manager whom by the way is the school's owner nephew about it. To make the story short , he never assured me that I would always get paid on time. I finally got tired of being concerned about getting paid on time so , I decided to leave the school after working there for about 8 or 9 days. When I called the school manager to inquier about my pay for those days worked , he asked me about the reason I left the school. I told him , when we come to work , we give you our 100 percent and we dont tell you we will do the rest of the work next month. I also advised him that I expected the same from him 100 percent on time with 100 percent full salary. He got irritated and asked me if that had happened to me already and I replied , what had made him think that it wouldn't happen to me. After all was I that special that he wouldn't do that to me after doing it to all the teachers with out exception!.So,to cut the story even shorter , he gave me runaround for the payment of that few days that I worked saying the owner wasn't in which by the fact was her Aunt!. So , after running after it for couple of months to no avail. I decided to be little more persuassive!.I told them if they didn't pay me. I will let all the parents know what kind of scam they were running! .They got scared and gave me a date to go there to pick up my money. When that day came , the owner was no were to be found and I had to go home empty handed which took me one hour by the way!.I finally decided to make good on my threat and passed out some flyers near the school to parents and the students. That really ticked them off. The owner went ahead of every body else to the police station and by using her influence and her money convinced police to scare me by threating to lock me up if I didnt stop. They said there was a law in Thailand under defamation law which you can't make any bad wrap for any body. I vigioursly defended my action by saying that I excersied my right of freedom of speech and by telling the truth. Any way , for the next hour I was struggling to make my point. I kept saying by using so called defamation law they can shut up any body they want or simply do censorship!. I was so mad , that I wasnt willing to budge, because I knew my cause was just. I realized they were not gonna let go neither and they were really determind to stop me this time. I called my wife to come to police staion as interpreter . We both realized after some time that police was so corrupt and the school had the money to wrap the cops around their fingers, there was no winning at that police staion. But that wasn't the end. Now she the witch the school owner demanded apology and police told my wife that if I didn't apologise , they would lock me up which to me was an obvious scare tactic.Any way being a Farang in this corrupt country with no money , some times you have to swallow your pride and do the wrong thing for the right reasons!. She made me sign a paper recounting every thing I had claimed under threat of being locked up. But ,for me that is not the end. I will use any means I can to tell other teachers what these con -artists low lives are all about. The school manager name is Joe. I forgot the owners name. Here are some other facts that other ffarang teachers told me . even though she made me recount that but the truth can never be changed. When the owner told the teachers she didnt have any money to pay them according to the teachers , she was taking lavishing trips to Vietnam and Cambodia. When she was behind over a month paying her teachers , she was giving some heavy money to local temples!.And to top that off , she used the money to buy another property to build another school.Please remember that this is a ripp off school and you will get cheated 100 percent guaranteed! Fortunatly or unfortunatly , this is Thailand and there is no rule of law , specially , if you are Farang!. Show these scum bags where they belong , please put them in the hall of shame.
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