Saturday, July 10, 2010

Not Good W's In Thailand

1.WHINING- when one is discriminated on the basis of his color that he receives as much as half the salary of his whiteman's counterpart in an institution....
- when one is discriminated on the grounds of "disability" to mimic the uneducated-backpacker Englishman's* way of saying TROUSERS, BIN, or TROLLEY. Does it matter when the children don't even know their A's from their E's?
*so they say
- when a teacher is discriminated due to his teaching the youngsters the differences between:
RUBBER and ERASER; HOLIDAY and VACATION; BREAK TIME and RECESS; HEAD TEACHER and PRINCIPAL; CARETAKER and JANITOR; etc. etc.
2. WISHING WINTER TO COME- it never comes here!
3. WHEELING SLOWLY- afraid that speeding cars will run over me...
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If the basis for monthly remuneration for foreign teachers in Thailand is 'race/color', then the following wage schedule should fairly fare:
1. For Whites > 60,000 Baht
2. browns (Filipinos, Malaysians, ejusdem generis) > ฿ 30,000
3. blacks > ฿ 15,000
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Or, when generosity is absent in the school manager so that debit may prosper in his bank account:
1. W= 20 grand Baht
2. B= 10 grand Baht
3. Bl= 5,000 Baht
There seems to be fairness here....
Accounting that follows logic should tell us so....
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Hypothetical situation:
We may as well consider the little king's decision to cut costs because the school is into bankruptcy. Accordingly, the foreign teachers' budget is pulling too much from the little king's coffers and he doesn't like the tallies on the balance sheet. To curb this, he issued a memorandum with the attached new wage schedule that looked like this:
W = 10,000 Baht
B = 5,000 Baht
Bl = 2,500 Baht
Upon seeing this, B, being sensible, elected to volunteer teaching and so the little king re-adjusted W's salary to 5,000 Baht....

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