I thought it might be interesting to provide the diagnostic criteria for sociopathy to show how well it explains TBI’s tumultuous and bizarre recent history. We have long argued that much of the chaos, upset and poor market performance is due to Luke Preece, whose rise in the company has coincided with a sharp fall…
“Dalam hidup kita, cuma satu yang kita punya, yaitu keberanian. Kalau tidak punya itu, lantas apa harga hidup kita ini?” Pramoedya Toer (Indonesian novelist and philosopher) With this post we would simply like to celebrate the bravery of Ratna, the former manager of TBI Jalan Riau, in standing up to the TBI Mafia.…
Just allow yourself to let this fact sink in. Luke Preece considers it fun to make women cry. He considers it sport and fun to torment and inflict pain on defenseless women. (See full article). This psychological terrorist considers it “fair play” to hound them to breaking point, driving them to cowed submission. Atika cried…
Sociopaths are mental, emotional and psychological terrorists. And just like real terrorists, if they have no weapons, their impact will be minimal. Do not provide them with personal information or they will use it to hurt you. Avoid at all costs supplying the sociopath with the weapons they can use to terrorize you. Basically any…
After talking with a number of former Luke Preece victims in November 2011, I became aware that this guy was “off the chart” in terms of sociopathic cunning. His list of victims, expat and Indonesian, became longer the more you looked into him. We have probably only uncovered a fraction of his true crimes, but…
In 2012 we told people that Luke had installed his best friend Scott Martin as School manager of TBI Jalan Jawa / RIau in 2010 in a rigged selection process. Preece told people that Martin had been the only candidate, neglecting to mention that other people had sent CVs to Preece but Preece had “lost”…
TBI Malang was established in 2002 and has an established history of providing first class English Language training to the people of Malang. TBI’s students range from very young children right through to corporate professionals and we pride ourselves on ensuring quality instruction in all of our programmes. From August 2013 TBI Malang will be…
Most of you won’t remember Colm O’Mahoney. He worked at TBI for around 10 months from mid 2010- June 2011 and ended up breaking his contract with TBI to go to a better paying position at a National Plus school called Sekolah Terpadu Pahoa, which is located somewhere in the west of Jakarta. By 2013…
If you go back to 2007 the Indonesian TEFL market was rather different than the scene we see today. The market was dominated by two players: EF and LIA. LIA does not employ expat teachers so it is rarely even mentioned by expat teachers, but it has an extensive network of schools throughout all major Indonesian…
We have documented in recent weeks how WSI (Wall Street Indonesia) has decimated TBI’s market share over the past few years. While TBI has been in the Indonesian market for 28 years, WSI has only been around for 6 years, but WSI already has more students than TBI. WSI is racing towards 9000 students while…
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