At this blog we have warned people for years that TBI was a corrupt, cronyistic and nepotistic business which was riddled with problems. At first our whistleblowing was met with howls of outrage and denial from the corrupt vested interests which run the school. However, the more people we talked to, the more skeletons we…
Dear Pak Windi, I am writing on behalf of all employees at the three TBI Bandung branches, to inform you that all TBI Bandung staff will be on strike on Friday and Saturday, 23rd and 24th of August 2019. We regretfully have to do this, as the situation concerning our salary has not improved significantly…
One of the many problems with TBI is that it is a bubble of similarly deluded individuals. It always was. It is a place where people tell themselves that their extraordinarily low standards are actually the benchmark for the whole industry! Their delusions of grandeur are nowhere more in evidence than when it comes to…
At this blog, we have always tried to moderate and conservative in our claims. We have never stated that TBI will go bust on such and such a date; we do not want to indulge in speculation, and there’s no way that anyone outside Head Office can know exactly how bad the finances are. However,…
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…
Hi Admin…Sekedar Update saja, saat ini TBI semakin kesulitan keuangan, semua dihemat, tunjangan – tunjangan dihapus, karyawan kontrak pun tidak ada kenaikan gaji. Saat ini keuangan TBI dikelola oleh orang yang tidak paham sama sekali mengenai Akunting maupun Finance yaitu si TM yang dulunya boneka Mariam. Bisa dibayangkan betapa semakin amburadulnya TBI saat ini. Semua…
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…
When this blog started in 2012, TBI was caught completely by surprise. After years of covering up abuses at TBI Bekasi, not to mention the embezzlement of over Rp2 billion at TBI Dago when Luke Preece was manager there, the TBI authorities had a lot of practice at keeping the lid on their dirty secrets. They…
Over the past week or so, we have focused on the fact that TBI Bandung keeps losing teachers to Penabur due to offering a very low salary of just Rp. 11-12 jt. per month. With this post we want to look at the long history of these low wages outside Jakarta; additionally, we want to…
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