Someone (labor office? Legal aid foundation lawyer?) gave him a call to lecture him on the law. He signed an official resignation notice, agreeing to give us full pay/ tax documents/ termination letter next Friday morning before our last classes. The termination letter will be dated Sept 29 so we have extra time to apply for an arc extension and legally stick around until our Oct. 15 departure from the country.
When our 10 minute meeting Tuesday started turning into an hour long meeting (our boss tried to nickle and dime us for assorted little things), my girlfriend may have suggested to him we try to collect severance indeed and left the room while he called a lawyer to complain for 10 minutes (no exaggeration) about our refusal to fix his rusting bikes we didn’t actually use.
But he hasn’t indicated he’s saving any nasty surprises for us. Seems like all might end well. I think she still plans on reporting the labor standard act violations in hopes of maybe saving someone else from this lousy contract. You all have been super helpful and the legal aid foundation are angels.
Now we’re just trying to figure out thetax refund situation before leaving and looking forward to actually seeing Taiwan outside of our isolated corner before heading home. That and trying to teach a new class of fresh 3 year old 小班 bond students they decided to start bussing down the block from the kindergarten this week…