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    FFS!!!! Lots of stupid bureaucratic rules all over the world, most especially in Thailand. This one takes the cake.
    Contract renewal time for my wife at her government school. She has to go to the regional office to sign. As with the last time she signed the contract, she has to have a guarantor who holds government rank sign a contract agreeing to accept responsibility if the contractor absconds with money etc. That in itself is a stupid rule (if the contractor steals, it's a police matter, and what coud a teacher steal anyway?). New rule (or an old rule now beig enforced); Contractor needs to have government employee with rank sign AND the guarantor's spouse must sign also.
    In my wife's case, her guarantor is happy to sign, her guarantor's husband is happy to co-sign, but guarantor's MiL doesn't let her son sign any contracts. Thus no guarantor, thus no contract.
    WTF kind of rule is this? For a job contract to teach English at a small, poor regional school, the teacher has to find not only a ranking government employee willing to go guarantor, but the guarantor's spouse has to vouch as well...and the teacher has to hope no members of the guarantor's family or inlaws don't have a phobia for contracts.
    FFFFFFF TIT.

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    Are you sure this 'rule' applies to all, or has Lulu been contacting & warning those involved?

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    I bet there's a rat or a jerk Luigi-ing a would be guarantor.


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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    but guarantor's MiL doesn't let her son sign any contracts.

    hmm... sounds to me like 'tis a case of Mom teachin' her son how to properly shake down a falang... just sayin'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    FFS!!!! Lots of stupid bureaucratic rules all over the world, most especially in Thailand. This one takes the cake.
    Contract renewal time for my wife at her government school. She has to go to the regional office to sign. As with the last time she signed the contract, she has to have a guarantor who holds government rank sign a contract agreeing to accept responsibility if the contractor absconds with money etc. That in itself is a stupid rule (if the contractor steals, it's a police matter, and what coud a teacher steal anyway?). New rule (or an old rule now beig enforced); Contractor needs to have government employee with rank sign AND the guarantor's spouse must sign also.
    In my wife's case, her guarantor is happy to sign, her guarantor's husband is happy to co-sign, but guarantor's MiL doesn't let her son sign any contracts. Thus no guarantor, thus no contract.
    WTF kind of rule is this? For a job contract to teach English at a small, poor regional school, the teacher has to find not only a ranking government employee willing to go guarantor, but the guarantor's spouse has to vouch as well...and the teacher has to hope no members of the guarantor's family or inlaws don't have a phobia for contracts.
    FFFFFFF TIT.
    Remember the thread a while ago about the teacher who acted as guarantor for her students loans and got stuck with a big bill when some were not paid back?

    Government oficers are very often asked to act as guarantors for all sorts of stuff. Lots of them are gunshy because of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Remember the thread a while ago about the teacher who acted as guarantor for her students loans and got stuck with a big bill when some were not paid back?

    Government oficers are very often asked to act as guarantors for all sorts of stuff. Lots of them are gunshy because of it.
    I don't remember the thread. Yes, a guarantor for money is not unreasonable and prospective guarantors should be wary of loan-paying abilities of the people they are vouching for. But this is a government office policy for a teacher's job. No money involved, no money handling involved, no expensive equipment involved in the execution of the teacher's duties.
    And to require the spouse of the guarantor to co-sign also??? It boggles the mind.
    A tangent issue is the requirement for a ranking government officer. For example, Mrs M's BiL is a cop, but he's only a sergeant. Not high enough rank. What this policy does is ensure anyone from peasant families can not progress. Old boys club locking unconnected (yet possibly talented and qualified) people out.

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    ^ Didn't she need a guarantor when she first started the job?

    And didn't you say the school was raided last year after Lulu tipped off immigration?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    ^ Didn't she need a guarantor when she first started the job?

    And didn't you say the school was raided last year after Lulu tipped off immigration?
    Yes, but now the Ministry of Ed requires the spouse of the guarantor to sign also. Pay attention.

    MY school was raided after Lulu's tip-off with incomplete information. He was incapable of joining all the dots, the thicko. Pay attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    Yes, but now the Ministry of Ed requires the spouse of the guarantor to sign also
    So last year you used the same guarantor and now this year he's told you his wife said no after remembering you jumping over the school fence and sprinting down the road on the day of the raid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    Yes, but now the Ministry of Ed requires the spouse of the guarantor to sign also. Pay attention.

    MY school was raided after Lulu's tip-off with incomplete information. He was incapable of joining all the dots, the thicko. Pay attention.
    Manny I would apologise to Lulu tout sweet and all will be unblocked.

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    The wife (LAO) told me today that the thais will no longer accept her Lao driving licence whiledriving in thailand. The reason. Its not in English. Its in Lao and French as is mine. Apparently she can get it convert3d easily enough for the english segment. Makes me wonder if the thais have a room full of twats dreaming upnew rules. They seem to be pretty inventive

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    After a bit more discussion with her indoors it was finally revealed to me that while the lao and issan thai can understand each other the wife reckoned they both have tottaly different script written. It still doesnt explain why they need the english script under the Lao script. Most rural coppers ive dealt with couldnt read or speak english anyway. 200 baht and on yerway old son. . Doudbt any of this will stop the laos or thais being daft coonts on the road anyway?

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    The wife (LAO) told me today that the thais will no longer accept her Lao driving licence whiledriving in thailand. The reason. Its not in English. Its in Lao and French as is mine. Apparently she can get it convert3d easily enough for the english segment. Makes me wonder if the thais have a room full of twats dreaming upnew rules. They seem to be pretty inventive

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