In this series we are offering our reading of recent major changes at the top of TBI. In the first part we suggested that all the new titles and the shroud of secrecy can be simply explained by the vestiges of Mariam’s connections and power. She has been offered a face saving deal whereby she…
Michelle has oh-so-predictably rocked up this morning and boasted that we are losers because we don’t know the inner politics of TBI anymore. This has become something of a ritual for Luke Preece as his former dominion rapidly collapses. When his horribly unpopular stooge Scotty got demoted from the School Manager rule at Riau we…
Having established in Part 1. that there is no way the power-hungry, prestige-obsessed Preece would have given up control of 11 out of 16 TBI schools voluntarily, we demonstrated that at the end of 2012 Luke Preece was clearly forced to give up his Franchise School dominion. In short, Luke Preece was pushed out of…
The facts of the case are clear: at the end of 2012 Luke Preece was replaced as Head of Franchise by an Indonesian by the name of Pak Hery. The delicious irony of the situation had not been lost on the authors of this blog. The man who back stabbed so many other expat managers,…
The ability to make accurate predictions is important in the sciences as a means of testing different theories. The people who believed in a ‘Flat Earth’ were proven wrong when Magellan circumnavigated the globe. The same applies in other fields. Keynesian economists seem to have had a better time of it in the current…
I was teaching Business English the other day to a Pre-Intermediate class and I came across a reading passage on ‘The Quality Circle’. This is a common term which is thrown around in business books these days and no doubt it is already last decade’s news on the corporate training circuit. But like most of…
Luke Preece, desperate to maintain his own job as the lackey of a bunch of Jakarta crooks, never fails to attack anyone who supports us or criticizes his sick organization. We have now marked his alias ‘Michelle’ as spam again, so she is not free to write lies into the comment box. Here is an…
Luke Preece distorts and misrepresents everything with complete disregard for the truth. Yesterday he wrote us a ludicrous and unintentionally laughable post as ‘Michelle’ which claimed that all of the posts and screen dumps we use could be fakes, as it is possible to buy hex encryption codes online (whatever they are). I thought hexes were something…
In April 2012 I received emails from two former TBI Bekasi teachers. They both made very similar allegations against Binsar Simorangkir, the school manager. Binsar didn’t pay promised wages, personal property was stolen from teachers time and again, female staff reported being sexually harassed and there were threats of violence and arrest if the teacher…
The posts from the first ever expat teacher to complete his contract at TBI Bekasi have generated a large amount of views. The TBI Mafia have long claimed that no one is interested in this blog, but it had around 6,000 views in the first six weeks of 2013. Is 1000 views a week (around…
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