ISmart School in Sihanoukville accused of not paying teachers
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ISmart School in Sihanoukville accused of not paying teachers
Someone named "Pixie Amy" posted on the Cambodia Black List Facebook page that this school hired her on a temporary basis to work 15 hours a week for six weeks and then stiffed her at the end of her employment. She blames someone at the school named "Ivy." She says ISmart school has done this sort of thing before.
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Wonder why she is using a swinger meeting site pic for moaning about her employer ?
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Apparently , Pixie Amy is saying that the employer Ivy told her that the final four weeks of her pay ($580) would be withheld/forfeited because she didn't give two weeks notice she was leaving, even though she was hired for a temporary fixed six week term. That's disgraceful if it's true.
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That story rings a bell... Wasn't that already posted somewhere here?
Here or on tof? I remember a similar lengthy text exchange between an Indian guy and a female teacher. Wasn't it in pp, and he wanted to meet her at night in his place or something ?
^ that was either here or on Facebook.
And no, the guy who wanted the prospective teacher to go to his place for interview was another story.
And no, the guy who wanted the prospective teacher to go to his place for interview was another story.
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There's a longer discussing of ISmart in a matching thread on the Cambodia Scammers page:
I usually don't have much empathy for English teachers who complain about their working conditions, but this is terrible if they are just taking advantage of people by hiring them to teach and then saying "We're not paying you, and you can't do anything about it because this is Cambodia, so fuck off."
I usually don't have much empathy for English teachers who complain about their working conditions, but this is terrible if they are just taking advantage of people by hiring them to teach and then saying "We're not paying you, and you can't do anything about it because this is Cambodia, so fuck off."
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Well, after one such experience English teachers usually smarten up to schools which seem a cowboy operation from the start.gavinmac wrote:There's a longer discussing of ISmart in a matching thread on the Cambodia Scammers page:
I usually don't have much empathy for English teachers who complain about their working conditions, but this is terrible if they are just taking advantage of people by hiring them to teach and then saying "We're not paying you, and you can't do anything about it because this is Cambodia, so fuck off."
Don't do dat again, here's your 'karma'.
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I understand that the school's director/teacher supervisor is Ivy Marie Acla, a Filipina. It may be Indian owned, I'm not sure.
I'm surprised by the blase attitude that so many posters and other teachers have to this story.
Teaching English is the most common job for an expat in Cambodia. There must be thousands of expat English teachers.
When the police in Cambodia rightly impound a tuk tuk after an accident, word goes out among the tuk tuk drivers and there will be 200 of them protesting outside the police station the next day until the driver gets his tuk tuk back.
Yet here we have a school in Sihanoukville that by all accounts just rips off teachers and takes advantage of Cambodia's lawlessness by hiring teachers and then not paying them for weeks' worth of wages.
And the response from most teachers online is silence or "Those teachers should have known better."
I'm surprised by the blase attitude that so many posters and other teachers have to this story.
Teaching English is the most common job for an expat in Cambodia. There must be thousands of expat English teachers.
When the police in Cambodia rightly impound a tuk tuk after an accident, word goes out among the tuk tuk drivers and there will be 200 of them protesting outside the police station the next day until the driver gets his tuk tuk back.
Yet here we have a school in Sihanoukville that by all accounts just rips off teachers and takes advantage of Cambodia's lawlessness by hiring teachers and then not paying them for weeks' worth of wages.
And the response from most teachers online is silence or "Those teachers should have known better."
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^Sounds like gavinmac has turned into our very own Wolfie Smith and is leading the TPF (Teachers Popular Front), against the tyranny of the bourgeoisie.
My posts are just jokes, maybe they're rude, offensive, and politically incorrect. They're not my opinion, viewpoint, idea, or judgement, but they're just fucking jokes so lighten up.
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I think he just likes herGarry Crabtree wrote:^Sounds like gavinmac has turned into our very own Wolfie Smith and is leading the TPF (Teachers Popular Front), against the tyranny of the bourgeoisie.
There are thousands of bad schools. The problem is systemic, and wide spread from country to country. Do teachers want to waste life on 'taking a collective stand' (that's what you have in mind?) when they might be working a thousand miles away in Argentina, come next year?gavinmac wrote:I understand that the school's director/teacher supervisor is Ivy Marie Acla, a Filipina. It may be Indian owned, I'm not sure.
I'm surprised by the blase attitude that so many posters and other teachers have to this story.
Teaching English is the most common job for an expat in Cambodia. There must be thousands of expat English teachers.
When the police in Cambodia rightly impound a tuk tuk after an accident, word goes out among the tuk tuk drivers and there will be 200 of them protesting outside the police station the next day until the driver gets his tuk tuk back.
Yet here we have a school in Sihanoukville that by all accounts just rips off teachers and takes advantage of Cambodia's lawlessness by hiring teachers and then not paying them for weeks' worth of wages.
And the response from most teachers online is silence or "Those teachers should have known better."
By all means if one has protesting and 'nations unite' as a hobby, then go ahead, enjoy the game. But it works more efficient to vote with one's feet. Walk out and let others know, through social media or specialised TEFL sites, so that the school has difficulty hiring and will run out of business.
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Geez. You take things at face value sometimes Tano.
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Regardless of whether it happens a lot or whether there is an outcry, it is plain wrong that the person in charge of the school seems repeatedly to not pay teachers. Wrong. Plain and simple.
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Regardless of whether it happens a lot or whether there is an outcry, it is plain wrong that the person in charge of the school seems repeatedly to not pay teachers. Wrong. Plain and simple.
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