cfimages is correct. If you are in a public place, your privacy is not a legal issue. Unfortunately, you will have to deal with people taking pictures of you and your daughter. Just take it as a compliment.
If a stranger takes pictures of you or your daughter when you are in the privacy of your own home, or in a bathroom for example, then you have the right to defend yourself. Assaulting the photographer or damaging private property(smashing the camera) is illegal. You would have to go through proper legal channels to defend your privacy.
Comitting assault OK? I think not. Nothing gives you the right to assault people for taking pictures. How do you know the person is a perv?
Maybe you would not like a man taking photos but there are women pervs out there as well who could be taking pictures. If you are in a public place anybody can take your photo if they wish. They do so with CCTV cameras everyday.
So all the buxiban owners and non-teachers gang up on the poor guy and tell him to stop feeling violated. Isnât that a little like blaming the victim?
But really, I agree with them. I donât know how long youâve lived here, but stuff like that is not worth a fight. Youâre going to loose no matter what. Even if you win, what do you think is going to happen; theyâll throw away the 8000 brochures and make new ones that donât include your picture?
Steal a whole box of them. Itâll make a great story in a few years.
At my last place of employment, where we were paid a psuedo salary. During full months we got a full âsalaryâ, but during partial months (holidays/school breaks) we received only a percentage. We were often asked to do extra events and such during full months, but received no extra pay, but that didnât stop them from reducing our âsalaryâ during partial months when we worked fewer hours. When we tried to get either extra pay for extra work, or no reduction in âsalaryâ for less work, the school simply changed everything to hourly and cut hours across the board by 20%. Thatâs when I left, which turned out to be a good move because that school has cut hours for their foreign teachers by another 20-25% since that time.
I learned whenever I want to protest something that doesnât seem right, I ask myself how could they make it worse and then usually just shut up.
Having any boss is not a good thing. Foreign owned can be just as bad as Taiwanese owned. I can remember a few foreign owned cram schools here that ripped off their teachers. There have even been foreign bosses that beat up their foreign teachers or when too pussy to beat them up hired thug foreign managers to do if for them. Like good people good bosses are where you find them. There is good and bad everywhere both Taiwanese and foreign.
Having myself for a boss didnât work out too well, either.
When I worked for myself, my boss:
âworked me too hard;
âdidnât hire the necessary personnel to assist me;
âdidnât pay me nearly enough;
âwas very disorderly, often assigning tasks at the last minute; and
âtook on tasks for which the outfit didnât have adequate resources, leaving me to try to resolve the messes he created.
In spite of all that, I would have stayed on, because he kept assuring me that if I stuck with him, we would eventually be in high cotton. But then one day that crazy, lying, cheapskate, slave-driving sumb**** went out of business!
[quote=âCharlie Jackâ]Having myself for a boss didnât work out too well, either.
When I worked for myself, my boss:
âworked me too hard;
âdidnât hire the necessary personnel to assist me;
âdidnât pay me nearly enough;
âwas very disorderly, often assigning tasks at the last minute; and
âtook on tasks for which the outfit didnât have adequate resources, leaving me to try to resolve the messes he created.
In spite of all that, I would have stayed on, because he kept assuring me that if I stuck with him, we would eventually be in high cotton. But then one day that crazy, lying, cheapskate, slave-driving sumb**** went out of business![/quote]
I would do but the useless bugger is skint.[/quote]
The rest of the story: Little bastid fled to Thailand or Taichi or someplace. Anyways, I hired a skiptracer and finally found him and got him to send me a few bucks every month. It ainât near what he owes me, though.
And he still wants me to go to work for him! He keeps coming up with these schemes. Of course I donât trust him any further than I could heave the Rock of Gibraltar.
I found handouts with photos of me from a school that I wasâŚumâŚerâŚteaching at from the Chinese teachers at the school that had my ARC. A few days later I was taking a taxi with the boss of the school that had my ARC and a bus with that same picture of me on the side passed by.
This is one downside of looking like the âidealâ western teacher. Thereâs a school round my way that has massive advertising posters at every junction with this blond haired, blue eyed woman who stopped working with them around 4 years ago. Iâd imagine that sheâll still be the âface of Victoriaâ in ten years time.
Iâm fat, bald, short, nearing 50 with black teeth. Doesnât stop them plastering my ugly mug all over the place. Guess theyâre targeting a niche market.
Iâm fat, bald, short, nearing 50 with black teeth. Doesnât stop them plastering my ugly mug all over the place. Guess theyâre targeting a niche market. [/quote]
Youâre doing yourself a disservice, Jimbo. Youâve got more hair than me, although Iâve got more on my back.
Foreign owned can be just as bad as Taiwanese owned. I can remember a few foreign owned cram schools here that ripped off their teachers. There have even been foreign bosses that beat up their foreign teachers or when too pussy to beat them up hired thug foreign managers to do if for them. Like good people good bosses are where you find them. There is good and bad everywhere both Taiwanese and foreign.
