More TBI schools have bitten the dust. After the defection of TBI Medan, other TBI franchise schools have closed their doors. After 13 dreadful years of graft and crime-ridden business, the scandalously bad TBI Bekasi has now gone out of business. It joins the long list of closed TBI schools which includes TBI Semarang, TBI…
In this final part of this four part series of posts on TBI’s organizational structure- one which we have shown has been plagued by rent-seeking practices which have sapped the energy and competitiveness of the company from the start- we look at the real reasons for Mariam’s ouster in late 2015. Why was the TBI…
Nowadays, there can’t be many people in the Jakarta TEFL industry who haven’t heard the whispers about TBI Bekasi, the school which has earned itself the dubious honor of being TBI’s most disreputable franchise school. During 2012 and 2013 we spoke with no less than 5 previous expat teachers who had worked for Binsar, the…
Never let it be said that TBI has any deeply-held values. Yes, they are incredibly greedy (in a short-term way) but that is surely a vice, not a value. There are no moral beliefs that I can see that have ever trumped short-term expediencies or the lure of an easy dollar. Respect for their customers?…
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…
Today we were alerted to the, ahem, TBI Suncity Bekasi Facebook page. Now you wouldn’t exactly expect it to world-class, would you? But what we saw was shockingly bad: a reminder that no matter how low you rate them, they are actually somewhat worse than what you think. I mean, honestly, they shouldn’t by running a nasi goreng stand let…
TBI’s pathetic decline towards irrelevance grows more pronounced by the minute. Better and more professional competitors are crowding them out of the market, revealing them for the unprofessional, out-of-date and inept company that they really are. More on their continued descent soon, but in the meantime, we offer you the truly contemptible: Binsar Simorangkir, having…
More than six months six months ago we first posted allegations that Binsar had threatened to kill expat teachers at TBI Bekasi Suncity. We also pointed out that Ashley and Luke have audited the school of Bekasi and given it a clean bill of health. They are totally complicit in the Bekasi disaster, so they are desperate…
Some people reading this might be wondering: who in their right mind would send their children to TBI Sun City when there are plenty of other courses nearby? At first the answer might not be that obvious since as another TBI Bekasi victim stated Binsar spends no money on advertising. This is true, and he…
As the weeks rolled on by, Binsar began to have a change of attitude towards myself. First of all he asked me one day if he could hold on to my KITAS. I asked him why and he said that he needed to hold onto my original KITAS since it was company policy. I kept…
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