Good facilities. - Anonymous employee EMASI Employee Review

1.0
25 Jan 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Good facilities. -Good food. -Beautiful landscaping

Cons

Managing director: -Bullies staff into submission. -NO experience in running a school. -Loves to bypass the chain of command. -Insensitive and inconsiderate. -No compassion at all. -Favors the staff who bow down to him. Those who don't, he'll make sure to make their life at school like hell. HR department: -The most incompetent people I have ever met. -Clueless and lazy. - They would even ask you to do their job for them because they're "busy" at that moment during your time of request. -Only replies when the managing director is being cced on the email. -When they need something from you, they will pressure you until you give them what they want. -If you need something—assistance or information—they will sometimes reply to you 3 or 4 days after you send the email. -Works on your important document that needs to be submitted to the local government at the last minute. When they didn't meet the deadline, they would say to you, "Your documents were incomplete; that's why we couldn't complete the processing." -Their incompetence will highly affect you mentally, physically, and emotionally. Students: -They respect the local teachers more than the foreign teachers. -They would say bad things about their foreign teachers in front of their faces in their own language. -No discipline at all.

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- Good facilities, board willing to invest in if you present the needs properly - Salary decent for a bilingual school.

Cons

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Cons

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