BLOGGING FROM BLAVA--PAST NA OKO

-an exile writes from BLAVA--WHERE POST-sOCIALIST REALITY BLENDS WITH THE CRUELTY OF aMERICAN CAPITALISM TO PRODUCE A GREETING WITH ALL THE SUBTLETY OF A SLAP ....

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

International Schools: Unjust by definition?

As I was typing a letter to a potential employer, I kept recalling something I'd heard recently:

People in the employ of the Great American International School who are hired at a job fair have a very advantageous contract. The school pays for their trip to a job fair to find a new job.

I think of this because one colleague started this term late, as he'd spent a week away, looking for a new job--all paid for by my current employer.

But I believe that I am in no way inferior to this person.... yet as I was sitting in the teacher's room, typing a letter to a potential employer, I had to endure interruption by another colleague with the most advantageous form of contract...

And then there are my colleagues who are citizens of our host country--even more badly paid, with even fewer privileges.

Something is wrong with this picture.

1 Comments:

At 1:18 AM, Blogger Fredastaire said...

You need to get your facts straight before you start commenting on your colleagues and posting them for all to see!

 

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