It is an inconvenience to me that that Dewey exists in the first place and a special irritation in particular that they have so much market coverage in the South, where I’d rather be. But if I want to work in a public school next year, I do still have other options.
I can talk with my current school, and current county government. I can use another recruiter. I can move north. Or I can do something else for a living next year, or I can go home or to another country. I can even take them to court/labor council and fight them, if I want.
You see, when Dewey decided to insist that I should pay fees for whatever school I work for (if that school doesn’t pay instead), they pretty much decided the call. One way or another, the one thing they’ve managed to do is cause me inconvenience. But once you HAVE to move again, then all bets are off and you may as well consider all your options and look at the good in things, no? Wherever I’ll be next year, I won’t have to work with Dewey!
There are other reasons, too, why this is not such a big deal for me at this time, one being the simple fact that I loathe my apartment and plan to move anyway. Also, like I said, I always have a plan B. I’m a single mom with little family or support. My eggs are rarely all in one basket![/quote]
Forget about your options for next year, my concern is that you might not make it to next month.
what does your Chinese contract say about this clause? I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s different than the one you previously signed. And they claim translation error.
I agree that you shouldn’t sign the contract but your first phone call escalated to verbal threats. And then you publicly slammed them on a popular forum that you know they read. There are better ways that this could have been handled imo.[/quote]
Dewey can’t fire me. I have no contract with Dewey. The school has a contract with Dewey to find teachers. Dewey wanted me to sign a contract with them which was backdated to match the contract with the school. These are two completely different contracts with two completely different entities (the school and Dewey). Dewey can’t cancel my contract with the school.
The phone call didn’t “escalate.” I just sat there listening to the guy. I didn’t speak. The more I didn’t say, the more agitated he got. As he was ranting at me over the phone, I posted here.
That’s not “slamming” them, it’s just stating reality. They’ve slammed themselves.
The reason I posted about this is because it’s just insulting, IMO, to ask a teacher to sign something like this. It’s utter and sheer disrespect for me as a client, and personally it’s disrespectful of my intelligence to think I’d just sign anything they asked, especially something like this.
And this illustrates pretty clearly what it’s been like to work with them from day one. I felt it was an excellent example of why I feel a teacher should go out of his/her way to avoid working with these people, if possible.