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Schizm
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*That's it. I'm opening THE bottle*
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Supermarket Dogfood
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GABA is still profitable though Burls. For how long though is questionable.
I've always wondered though how often companies like GABA and NOVA with histories of treating instructors like crap suffer from instructors taking off at a drop of a hat.
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yanpa
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| If they're not reliant on actual trained, qualified and competent ESL teachers, then warm, native-speaking bodies with a degree are two-a-yen. |
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Supermarket Dogfood
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True to a point, but when teachers repeatedly leave at the drop of the hat?
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yanpa
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| If it's a big operation, and the situation isn't really really dire (and we're talking about natural-disaster send-in-military-evacuation-flights here) they'll have enough influx to cover turnover. Look at Nova and how many drones kept soldiering on until the bitter end. |
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Ewok
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| Schizm wrote: |
| *That's it. I'm opening THE bottle* |
Noooooo!! Just mail it to me! 
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yanpa
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Ewok
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| I hoped employers would be so dazzled by my two degrees and three internships that they'd waive the 2-5 years of experience requirement. |
 Doesn't Haughty always say something about this sort of thing?
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| In my defense, however, why do employers list a position as entry-level when they want someone with 2-5 years experience? I was under the impression that entry-level meant 0 years of experience or one year at the most. |
Because after 2-5 years you are still pretty much "entry level", its not until about 8-10 years that you would be considered "mid-career".
I'm surprised they didn't take her NOVA experience into consideration!
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oitafish
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| I heard it takes 10 years of training to become a sushi chef. |
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myhomeuphere
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| I heard it takes 10 years of training to become a sushi chef. |
It takes years (not to become one of the kurukuru guys) and cold hands...My brother in law is a chef (a bloody good one at that), and he can't make sushi - his hands are too warm
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Victor Ward
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| I heard it takes 10 years of training to become a sushi chef. |
It takes years (not to become one of the kurukuru guys) and cold hands...My brother in law is a chef (a bloody good one at that), and he can't make sushi - his hands are too warm |
Just how warm can they be? What are they going to do, cook the fish?
He could specialize in aburiyaki.
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Victor Ward
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| Ewok wrote: |
| That blcg wrote: |
| I hoped employers would be so dazzled by my two degrees and three internships that they'd waive the 2-5 years of experience requirement. |
Doesn't Haughty always say something about this sort of thing?
Also I liked this:
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| In my defense, however, why do employers list a position as entry-level when they want someone with 2-5 years experience? I was under the impression that entry-level meant 0 years of experience or one year at the most. |
Because after 2-5 years you are still pretty much "entry level", its not until about 8-10 years that you would be considered "mid-career".
I'm surprised they didn't take her NOVA experience into consideration! |
Yes, amazing that . . .
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| singing songs about triangles to uninterested two-year-olds |
. . . doesn't rocket you beyond entry level.
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Diva
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Did you read some of the early entries?
The blog initially looks like the most pedestrian fucking 'gaijin in Japan' story EVER but if you go back to the pre-Japan days you'll find her posting pictures of Siamese twins and 'fetuses inside fetuses' as she seems to really like looking at 'medical anomalies'.
And she seems a bit proud that her brother had his first 'confirmed kill' in Iraq.
I have to go and complain to my neighbour about his new porch light but am stalling for time by reading shitty blogs like the above..... |
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yanpa
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No, didn't get back that far. But now you mention it... I like this post: The Asian City That Never Sleeps. I wonder if Iruma, Saitama is a town that never sleeps 
And wow, classy lady.
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Victor Ward
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This is rich!
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| Apparently, the Japanese use three different syllabaries or system of characters: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Kanji is the one with thousands of characters that foreigners like me have virtually no hope of learning, so naturally it is the one used most often. |
(Emphasis added.)
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