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Teaching In Thailand Being a international school teacher in Thailand can be a great career with salaries in the range of $2,500 to $6,000 per month, or you could become a TEFLer teaching English with a salary range of 350-600 pounds per month, although with many teaching jobs it could be worth doing a TEFL course even if no experience is necessary, but will teaching students fulfil your overseas jobs yearnings? Is a English language teaching job something you really want to do? Can you teach English?

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Old 09-11-2009, 08:20 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Thumb print scan for sign in??

I have been told by my school that we have to scan our thumb for the daily sign-in and sign-out, thay have also said that this is requested by Thai law??
can anyone let me know if the thumb scan is required by law? personally i think they are talking a load of shite.

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Sign-in/out may be required under Thai Labour Law but I highly doubt it specifies thumb scans. We use them at our office too though; interestingly enough a Court in Hong Kong recently ruled that they (thumb scanners) were an 'invasion of privacy'.
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Sign-in/out may be required under Thai Labour Law but I highly doubt it specifies thumb scans. We use them at our office too though; interestingly enough a Court in Hong Kong recently ruled that they (thumb scanners) were an 'invasion of privacy'.
Cheers! I fully agree that the sign-in and out is a requirement by Thai law, but this shite that they need a thumb scan is utter BS.
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Sign-in/out may be required under Thai Labour Law but I highly doubt it specifies thumb scans. We use them at our office too though; interestingly enough a Court in Hong Kong recently ruled that they (thumb scanners) were an 'invasion of privacy'.

I'd love a job in your office-posting on TD all day!
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Sign-in/out may be required under Thai Labour Law but I highly doubt it specifies thumb scans. We use them at our office too though; interestingly enough a Court in Hong Kong recently ruled that they (thumb scanners) were an 'invasion of privacy'.

I'd love a job in your office-posting on TD all day!
Sure, I could always use another pair of hands. There is currently an opening in the tea-room; someone to fetch my refreshments. Are you qualifed?
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Sounds better than my current job, starting salary?
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They're talking shite about it being Thai law.

I knew a bloke who was teaching in some school, Sarasass I think. They had a thumbscanner... for all 250 teachers. You can picture the queue at 4pm on a Friday afternoon.
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Same as my school, we have one. They're telling you a load of bollocks I'm afraid.

It was installed at my school 3 months ago to stop all the Thai teachers from clocking in and out for each other.

Thai law my arse....hahahaha
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^Spot on, it's to stop the Thai teachers abusing the system and arse covering for each other, sweet FA to do with the law.
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Yes. Westerners would never do things like sign in for eachother. Simply impossible. It's solely a (sneaky) Thai trait.
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Old 10-11-2009, 11:10 PM   #11 (permalink)
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What's the big deal? We use a fingerprint scan in my job here (UK) to sign in. Only prob is the clock's set a few mins slow, so you always have to wait a few mins to sign out or be docked 15 mins pay... *sigh*
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I am thinking of starting a rubber thumb business. Is there a future in it?
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School teacher, whether here or in the West is supposed to be the type of job that carries respect and dignity, and the privilege of being trusted to work your required hours seems like a part of that respect.
My school has a sign sheet, but so long as it's filled out no one really checks. Your can fill all 10 in/outs for the week on Friday afternoon if you want to.
Also as professionals, teachers are allowed to freely come and go during the day so long as they do not miss their classes. Maybe I'm just lucky to be working at a school with good management.
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I am thinking of starting a rubber thumb business. Is there a future in it?
This type of business is already quite well established in the UK. To obtain state benefits you now need a thumb print. Some enterprising souls are digging up corpses, removing their thumbs and then making a benefit claim.

Good for them, thumbs up I say. MH.
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Some enterprising souls are digging up corpses, removing their thumbs and then making a benefit claim.
Mumrah.
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Same as my school, we have one. They're telling you a load of bollocks I'm afraid.

It was installed at my school 3 months ago to stop all the Thai teachers from clocking in and out for each other.

Thai law my arse....hahahaha
oh . . . you mean there's an arse scanner as well?
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I knew a bloke who was teaching in some school, Sarasass I think. They had a thumbscanner... for all 250 teachers. You can picture the queue at 4pm on a Friday afternoon.
I have to do the thumb scan thing to take my kids out off school, its not a real a hassle, They also record the kids in class as well I can view them on line. All good I recon.
Complaining about nothing I recon
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School teacher, whether here or in the West is supposed to be the type of job that carries respect and dignity, and the privilege of being trusted to work your required hours seems like a part of that respect.
My school has a sign sheet, but so long as it's filled out no one really checks. Your can fill all 10 in/outs for the week on Friday afternoon if you want to.
Also as professionals, teachers are allowed to freely come and go during the day so long as they do not miss their classes. Maybe I'm just lucky to be working at a school with good management.
agreed. I had same before....
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I don't sign in or out...I'm supposed to but fuc* em. They know when I'm there or not I have to walk past the office every morning to get to my office...
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