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[comrade in arms]

ENGLISH TEACHER & CLEANER REQUIRED (Taksim, Istanbul)

For light housework, some tidying, vacuuming and washing up. Suitable for a friendly person who doesn't mind occasional weird music by Animal Collective, Therapy?, Pis Yabanci, Awkward Bitch and such like.

No DELTA or CELTA required. Teachers from DILKO ENGLISH 'ACADEMY', who need to supplement their income are welcome!

-Will be paid 20 TL an hour
-Payment on time
-At least 4 weeks notice before dismissal
-Free homemade sandwiches, coffee and tea (milk and sugar included)
-You won't have to disappear when inspectors come because you're not legally employed

# Location: Taksim / Istanbul
# Compensation: 20 TL (twice as much as DILKO pays)
# Telecommuting is ok.
# This is a contract job.
# Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
# Phone calls about this job are ok.
# Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Applications will be treated in a strictly confidential manner.

Note: This is an equal opportunity position, and open to anyone including 'NATIVE' Americans!

[dmb]

This is a piss take, right?

[comrade in arms]

How clever of you!

[golightly]

CIA, I get the teeniest smidgeon of a feeling that you are somewhat miffed with DILKO.
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[dmb]

[comrade in arms]

I've had no dealings with Dilko whatsoever, but I've had friends who worked for them. Didn't they use to be a pretty decent school in the past? But I heard a story about a teacher, an ex-British Army guy, whom they hadn't paid his salary around Christmas time like two years ago. In fact, they had been late paying all the salaries for November or something, and this guy went into the office of the Manager with a gun in his hand at the Kadikoy Branch of Dilko. I don't remember what they told me about what happened in the office, but after that I believe they paid every teacher's salary immediately the same day. This story was told me while I was drinking with some teachers from Dilko at Son Gemi in Kadikoy, and I really don 't know about the specifics.

I think the ownership of Dilko chain of language schools has changed recently, hasn't it? In Turkey, if a business makes money, other people who have some money and power but have absolutely no knowledge of that business tend to start doing the same thing or they take over the money making business. That's capitalism for you, isn't it? Now it's possible to hire native English speaking teachers for very low wages, thanks to the recession and unemployment in the US, all you need is a crappy building and a few connections in the Ak Party government to start a language school. What I am annoyed about is that the chain schools like Dilko are trend setters, and if they can get away with doing their business with unqualified travellers whom they pay a pittance, there won't be any decent language schools left in Turkey. Nowadays, highschools, especially the ones which are controlled by Hoca Efendi (Fetullah Gulen) are doing the same thing.

[justme]

Oh. So it's dershane business as usual then?
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