We all have issues, I guess.
[quote=“bohlinghaus”]They have also threatened my ARC card. Now, I know things like to be done a little under the table here, since that is how I get paid. So is that on the up and up?
I am lax to get too deep in this with my wife, she has other things to do than babysit her husband.[/quote]
You are on a JFRV, yeah? In which case there is absolutely nothing your employer can do. If you leave before the completion of your contract they could try to sue you for any fines they put in the contract you signed. Chances are they won’t.
As for most of your other complaints - they’re standard practice in buxibans. You’re right to choose not to work in one again if you are unable to tolerate them.
You have a JFRV through marriage, from what I read in your post.
I will be clear. They can do less than fuckall in any way if you walk out. There is no way they can threaten your arc.
So it seems they have been paying you cash with no tax. Right? They cannot do anything here either, without getting themselves into trouble. So if they threaten you in any way, you just tell them to perform self fornication.
A JFRV is a double edged sword.
On the one hand you benefit by not being tied to your employer. The school also benefits by being able to hire a teacher off the books, so to speak. A school can only sponsor a certain number of teachers, based on the size of the school. If a teacher has a JFRV, this does not apply.
I work for two schools. One is great. Been working there for nearly 3 years.
The other one was a shit hole run by incompetents. Walked out last week. They can do shit as I have a JFRV.
So basically there are good and bad schools. With the JFRV, you have the option of walking out, without deportation hanging over your head.
The only schools that don’t want to hire people with JFRV, are the ones that need to threaten arc cancellation to retain teachers. Those are the ones to stay away from.
QFT. 
I’m curious, why did you sign in this case?
If I could answer, I would not be here 
It’s true that if a company has fewer than five workers they don’t have to pay for labor insurance. Your labor insurance should be about 2000 NT, or less, every two months.
If you don’t like what’s going on where you are, then walk away. That’s the great thing about the JFRV. They won’t even try to do anything to you because the penalties in the contract are almost assuredly not legal and not enforcable.
You will need to get some sort of tax statement from them, however, or the Taiwanese government can charge you whatever tax rate they presume you must have been earning. But even if you get stuck with that, and even if it’s the highest rate, it will still be worth it to you later just to spend your productive hours in a place that doesn’t drive you nuts.
[quote=“bohlinghaus”]
I mention Chinese-speaking assistants, well, we do not have them. They teach English as well. They call it tutoring, but it is teaching. Which leaves the English teachers in a bind when we have to relate grammar to 8 or 9 year olds, who barely have a grasp of the alphabet!
Are their any other people here on family based ARC’s [/quote]
[quote=“Puppet”][quote=“bohlinghaus”]
I mention Chinese-speaking assistants, well, we do not have them. They teach English as well. They call it tutoring, but it is teaching. Which leaves the English teachers in a bind when we have to relate grammar to 8 or 9 year olds, who barely have a grasp of the alphabet!
Are their any other people here on family based ARC’s [/quote]
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I don’t have a problem with that use of the word relate:
[quote]relate
vb
1 tr to tell or narrate (a story, information, etc.) [/quote]–Collins Dictionary
Nowadays I don’t normally use apostrophes when pluralizing abbreviations, but I did when I was younger, probably because I was taught to do so, and I’m pretty sure that I was taught to do so because that was the convention back then, at least in the U. S. In fact, it appears that the old convention has not yet gone the way of all ink:
[quote]The apostrophe is sometimes used with -s to form the plural of letters, numerals, abbreviations, symbols, and words used as words.
Letters are usually pluralized with -'s
although capital letters are sometimes pluralized with -s alone.
The use of -'s to form the plurals of numerals, abbreviations and symbols is not now as common as pluralization with the simple -s.[/quote]–Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage
As for their, that’s a common kind of error. I wouldn’t be surprised to find errors of that kind in my own writing.
[quote=“Charlie Jack”]
As for their, that’s a common kind of error. I wouldn’t be surprised to find errors of that kind in my own writing.[/quote]
Well comma their you go exclamation mark
[quote=“jimipresley”][quote=“Charlie Jack”]
As for their, that’s a common kind of error. I wouldn’t be surprised to find errors of that kind in my own writing.[/quote]
Well comma their you go exclamation mark[/quote]
Another nighthawk at the diner!
Double post, sorry.
Sorry to read about your horrific experiences. Unfortunately buxibans are private businesses, not subject to govt education laws. They can do what they like, treat you any how they like. If you want labour law protections you have to become a real teacher and teach in govt approved institutes.
The labour law is: give 30 days notice to your employer and you can quit your job. They cannot fine you or threaten you. If you obtained your ARC thru your employers, then you will be given 45 days to leave Taiwan.
Hosh, do you (or anyone for that matter) know if it is possible to obtain teaching accreditation through a Taiwanese university/college (whilst in Taiwan)? Or would be better option be to do a distance course (if that’s even recognised)?
Had to post this in here.
Today I asked the bosses wife if she remembered that I would be getting paid in cash this month as my bank account has not been set-up yet. She then fobbed me off.
Later she dispatched the head foreign teacher to give me a talking to about how it is disrespectful to ask a boss about ones pay and salary. The conversation went along the lines of “The boss will give it to you when she is well and ready thank you, minions shouldn’t be so disrespectful as to ask”.
I was then asked if I would dare to ask my Taiwanese father in law when I was receiving my chinese New year red envelope as if that situation is in anyway compareable to the above. :eh:
Finally after explaining that I always try to be straight up with money I was reminded about the highly professional nature of the Buxiban and told to go and make a copy of my own payslip so I could return the one that they gave me to the office.
:raspberry:
i hope you sent her a gift and apology card for the indiscretion 
You get a red envelope from your father in law? Shite! I’ve been handing mine one for the past 5 years. No bugger told me I was supposed to get one back :fume:
[quote=“Milkybar_Kid”]Had to post this in here.
Today I asked the bosses wife if she remembered that I would be getting paid in cash this month as my bank account has not been set-up yet. She then fobbed me off.
Later she dispatched the head foreign teacher to give me a talking to about how it is disrespectful to ask a boss about ones pay and salary. The conversation went along the lines of “The boss will give it to you when she is well and ready thank you, minions shouldn’t be so disrespectful as to ask”.
I was then asked if I would dare to ask my Taiwanese father in law when I was receiving my chinese New year red envelope as if that situation is in anyway compareable to the above. :eh:
Finally after explaining that I always try to be straight up with money I was reminded about the highly professional nature of the Buxiban and told to go and make a copy of my own payslip so I could return the one that they gave me to the office.
:raspberry:[/quote]
On top of the many bad things which have happened to you in the past 2 or 3 years (yeah, I am pretty conversant in the story that is MBK) I have to be the one to tell you that your boss is a fucking nasty cunt who is lying to you. Essentially she doesn’t have the cash to pay you. So when you mentioned to her a prior conversation, which she forgot, she went into panic mode. First order of business is to make you feel like a cunt. Hence the dressing down. This is a smokescreen to stop you from remembering that she owes you money. The red envelope question was then to find out just how rough you are going to get it WHEN she shafts you a few days from now. “Oh, I no have money to pay you, but you OK, you got red envelope.” She sees you as a mug she can walk on in her quest to become rich. Sorry mate. It’s not particularly a Taiwan problem, most people see the peons as crushable worms. but it is a problem. Your boss, based on my experiences, is fucking with you left right and centre.
That’s actually pretty insulting. Presumably the head foreign teacher doesn’t have a clue 
[quote=“Tempo Gain”][quote=“Milkybar_Kid”]
I was then asked if I would dare to ask my Taiwanese father in law when I was receiving my chinese New year red envelope as if that situation is in anyway compareable to the above. :eh:
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That’s actually pretty insulting. Presumably the head foreign teacher doesn’t have a clue [/quote]
Agreed.
Your salary is not a frikking gift (maybe you need to remind your boss this, she is not being some magnanimous buddha of everlovingkindness by giving you the money that you EARNED and she OWES you).
I had a boss like that in the states. Kinda like a buxiban job in a way I guess, as even though it was a steady job (worked there for like 3 years) all of his employees were “independent contractors” to get him out of paying taxes.
When he would pay us (we had to ask for our paychecks, weird situation. Tell him a day or two before “Hey, can I get paid soon” and he would just tell us to put our time sheets (which we filled out and he never checked) on his desk, then we would have our check the next day) but he would act like he was being SO generous and say things like “Boy, isnt it awesome that I paid you? You sure are lucky to work for me, since I pay your bills for you”. Frikkin a-hole.
He would also go over our work, and even if we had been REALLLLLLY productive that day, he would then calculate how much money he would have to pay us for that work and instead of expressing his appreciation of a job well done, would say things like “So, essentially you are telling me it cost me XXX number of dollars to get this done?”
Yah, had bosses like that, they suck. At least he never tried to wiggle out of paying us. He even would pay me in advance if I asked (and then I would work off the hours over the next few weeks).