Ashley Platts directly intervened at TBI Kelapa Gading just as he did at TBI Bogor, arguing that expat managers were too expensive and that I ought to be replaced by an Indonesian. (By late 2011 I was the last expat franchise school manager in the entire company. According to Platts, it was such an outrage…
How do you think TBI Head Office feels about TBI expat teachers? I think they’re afraid of them. That’s interesting. What makes you say that? That’s how they act. They’re scared of what they might do or say. The mere mention of a teacher’s complaint has been known to send them into paroxysms of fear.…
In this part, we look at the poor advice and guidance which Ashley Platts gave his supposed friend Chris Needham and explore whether Chris was really a victim of his supposed ‘mentor’. One of the victims of Binsar mentioned that TBI “always speaks so highly of itself.” Would you say there is a culture of…
In this part of the interview we continue to explore the suspicious inconsistencies in Ashley Platt’s behaviour over time. Was Ashley’s booby, Chris Needham, promoted multiple times so as to fail, thereby advancing Ashley’s real agenda? What did both Chris Needham and Luke Preece tell you was Ashley Platt’s ultimate goal in TBI? Ashley was…
In this part of the interview we investigate the glaring contradiction between Ashley Platts’s goal of getting rid of all expat managers besides himself and Luke and his tireless promotion of Chris Needham through the ranks of TBI. It has only recently occurred to us that Ashley’s useless protégé, Chris Needham, was never intended to succeed. Could…
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