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| What do (would) you do if an ESL employer refused to pay you? |
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| Stay on but secretly sabotage the business |
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| Get an attorney |
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| Call my mommy |
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Kuplungmaster
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: What do you do if an ESL employer refuses to pay you? |
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American Studio
Culture & Exchange Program
The “American Studio”, a Non Government, Non Profit Organization is being formed in Serbia and Montenegro, precisely in city of Novi Sad in Northern Province of Vojvodina. We have chosen Vojvodina because of its long history of cultural diversity and ethnic tolerance. It is an independent organization formed by active and experienced ESL/EFL teachers from the USA and Europe whose purpose is to educate and inform.
The mission of the 'The American Studio is "to help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world."
In order to promote life concerns and human development, The American Studio will organize its own activities and sponsor a variety of cultural exchange programs. Our mission is Teaching English and American Culture with an emphasis on children, and young professionals who wish to participate in American Business environment
The American Studio will cooperate and collaborate with local schools and universities, educational and research institutions and other government or non-government organizations throughout the region.
The American Studio Educational Organization will also support cultural exchange between Vojvodina and USA. One of the tasks of the Organization is to enable people to participate in various international cultural events, in keeping with the wishes of the cultural sphere.
To conduct these activities, the organization's financial matter originates from the fee of its members, donation and charity from individual, governmental and non governmental organization etc.
We spent a great deal of personal resources to establish the organization. We do not necessarily need money (although we could use it), but we are in dire need of teaching supplies such as English books, tapes, CD’s. Also we are in great need of children’s resources such as picture books, flash cards, etc… Any help will be greatly appreciated (and tax exempt if you donate from the USA)
If you’d like to support our foundation, please contact the president of the “American Studio” Peter Z Bugarchich at pbugarchich@hotmail.com.
Our address is:
American Studio
c/o Peter Z Bugarchich
Maksima Gorkog 8a
21.000 Novi Sad
Vojvodina
Serbia and Montenegro
Ph: +381-21-6350-478
pbugarchich@hotmail.com |
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Speedy Gon Gomez
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Kuplung,
You guys got a website? Something that has a little more information about this organization? From readying this post it looks like I'd be sending my stuff straight to Peter.
Speedy G. |
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Kuplungmaster
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| Speedy Gon Gomez wrote: | Kuplung,
You guys got a website? Something that has a little more information about this organization? From readying this post it looks like I'd be sending my stuff straight to Peter.
Speedy G. |
Not web site yet, but we are working on it. We are still getting through the endless maze of red tape to get all the documents in order.
We were told by the local post office that it's better to have a name attached to the address. It's not like in the States where you can mail to any company and any address and be pretty sure it will be delivered.
We are also prepared to issue a receipt (which can be notarized too) for any goods received. Generally goods up to 50 bucks would be fine. Anything over that is not much to us because it is subject to custom duties and fees.
We already received some stuff from overseas in so called M-bags, approximately dollar per pound via air mail
Thanks for your interest.
Peter (aka Kuplung) |
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akeed
Joined: 22 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:05 am Post subject: |
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| i will believe it when I see it!!! |
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Kuplungmaster
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| akeed wrote: | | i will believe it when I see it!!! |
btw, believing is optional...
I don't recall asking anything from anyone in particular... This was just an announcement for a new (TESOL) school founded as a Non-Gov't organization adopting US English and US ways of teaching...
I see that motley crew is eager for argument(s) ...  |
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Scooby *Scott* Doo
Joined: 11 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Where did you get the capital to start up your language school? I was tnking about getting a grant myself or going into Southern Central Europe like Zagrzehb or somewhere like that, I've heard of a lot of Americans running schools down there as the region is so stable now |
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Kuplungmaster
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Scooby *Scott* Doo wrote: | | Where did you get the capital to start up your language school? I was tnking about getting a grant myself or going into Southern Central Europe like Zagrzehb or somewhere like that, I've heard of a lot of Americans running schools down there as the region is so stable now |
Where do I get the capital? 99% from my own pocket, the rest comes from donations and other sources...
Check it out: http://americantesol.com/ASLS/ASLS.html
The links are bit messed up, but the webmaster is going to fix it soon...
http://americantesol.com/
Zagreb is ok. Generally speaking, Croatia is a very good place to start a business.. |
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HenanMike
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 32
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject: I'm not sure! |
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May I ask why you send out an e-mail attempting a poll on payment by ESL/EFL employers -- a very interesting topic -- and then regale me with antiquated spam regarding the opening of a school in Eastern Europe? And a Fujian, China job offer?
Doesn't the webmaster know how to initiate a new string? |
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Speedy Gon Gomez
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Posts: 16
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: |
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I'd definitely call my mummy...i'd do this for two reason. One I could complain about how tough life is as an ESL teacher...and second it would give me some credits with mums that's im' staying in touch with her yada yada yada.. So to me this is the obvious choice. I can kill two birds with one stone.
What about you Henanmkie? What would you do?
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Kuplungmaster
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Come again...? (bzzt, bzzt, static, static, crackle, crackle, crackleware...)
What was this topic about... ? |
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