In recent weeks, we have covered the fact that 2015 was the year when Mariam Kartikatresni’s disastrous reign at TBI finally came to an end. After years of disappointing customers, running illegal visa scams, firing people as scapegoats for her own comic incompetence and fighting off attempts from frustrated stakeholders to oust her, her many…
In the past few days, a teacher has come on Dave’s ESL Cafe and made some damning revelations about Scott Martin of TBI. The teacher has alleged that Scott Martin lied to him that teaching on business visas was ”a grey area” in terms of legality. This is another bare-faced lie from Scott Martin, the…
We have often been informed that the “Indonesianization of management” policy which was pursued by TBI with cut-throat abandon in 2010 and 2011 has not been the glowing success that Ashley, Mariam and Luke envisaged. In fact, in the last 3 and a half years, TBI has seen 2 schools close permanently- TBI Semarang and…
Over the past few weeks TBI has been advertising for staff for TBI Bali, which presumably will open sometime later this year. Here is a link to the job in case you want to be the Office Supervisor there! Why they can’t get one of their own staff to do the job is a bit…
Towards the end of 2011, Luke made a number of poor decisions at TBI Kuningan. First he had let Rani, the highly successful Corporate Sales manager, leave. She was bringing in something like $20,000 of business a month on a salary of less than $400 a month and he decided to let her go! Furthermore,…
In light of Ratna’s removal, we think it is ethical to issue a fresh warning to anyone who has a TBI email account. In late 2011 TBI set up its own email system powered by Google. I think only managers have TBI email accounts not teachers. For example Luke Preece’s email is luke.preece@tbi.co.id. There are…
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