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Huh? Who else gets a jail sentence suspended for 2 years?!? Why not just say it as it appears to be: the rich and powerful perp gets a jail sentence changed to probation. Or am I missing something?

Has someone been there? Do they provide translators? My Thai is limited to mai okay ????

Are there freelance translators one might hire? Or would I have to arrange that in advance?

Errm, and which bues goes there, from Don Mueang airport and Vibhavadi Road?

Cheers,

Hi,

I need to file a lawsuit against an employer. Does the court provide a translator? Are translators hanging out and can be hired for like 1,000 THB for that half an hour at the desk?

Just wondering.

Please share your own experience, if you can. Coming from Don Mueang airport, which bus goes to the Labour Court?

Thank you in advance!

Kudos for sharing. I can second the OP and have good things to tell about the Labour Courts and how they work. (Very pragmatic and efficient and fast). 

Greetings from Vietnam. Last night, I tried to get paid for the day (as to why this arrangement has been necessary, I will leave that to your fertile imagination). The lesson and the remuneration were confirmed via Messenger. 

No cancellation.

The boss showed up after the lesson and handed me a slip, charging me for the hotel and - no kidding - 2 meals @ 50,000 VND or $ 2.20 each. (Gracious boss, paying for street food...)

Bottom line: I am supposed to pay him, not the other way aound.

...

He claims to have a MA in Teaching Methods. Indeed, he has a unique approach:

- 5 year olds, he instructed me to "make them read". Hello! They cannot read!!! 

- putting 8-year olds in an IELTS class (and buying books with such hideous language that you wouldn't read them back to back for 1,000 THB each).

- For a pretty good class of 10 year olds, he selected the K-book (homework: tracing ofletters) 555. The students must think I'm a total moron to use such a "book"! 

Know of any vacancies? Vietnam can suck big time. (Am contemplating whether to call the Police - paying up is not an option, or he will go wild and hell knows what he will do to the next 8 foreigners. The previous 8 haven't been paid and some paid him, no kidding).

UK degree and all... 

Cheers!

Join the club! Listening is a known weakness. And don't be surprised if they feel all that superior to you! 

On 4/29/2019 at 11:07 PM, MeePeeMai said:

I can sympathize with you.  I recently sent a regular envelope via EMS from Thailand to Hawaii and it took more than 6 weeks to arrive (and cost just over 100 baht).  I can't see any reason it should take that long for a small envelope. 

 

I have no experience sending packages out of Thailand but I have sent a lot of boxes back and forth from Indonesia to Hawaii via DHL Global Express and never had an issue.  I remember that those DHL boxes only took about a week, but it was pricey.

That was Air Mail, not EMS! EMS takes a few days and starts at like 600 THB or more irrespective of the weight.

Am in Vietnam. A local gamer says that like $ 250 buys a  n e w  PS4 Slim with that mod.

Surely, when it's too good a price to be true?

Now some questions.

The PS4 is pretty expensive vs the XBOX (looking at European prices, where one gets a XBOX with a top game for like 200 € with a 2 years' warranty).

The new PS5 will be backwards compatible.

A jailbroken PS4 lets one play most PS2 games?!?

Will this be an "open box" PS4, or a used one missold as new or mint? Just wondering.

Don't trust Vietnamese much. "Dry cleaning" meant "machine washed with detergent", a suit was ruined that way.

After having visited a dozen times, I've now moved to a larger city in Central Vietnam. 

* Forget consideration for others. Through open doors at high rise condos, music gets BLASTED. OR kids playing football by the elevators after 9 pm. Or someone decides to burn organic waste next to a primary school. (Fumigating the school, I would expect to get fined a year'S salary AND do time for such conduct back home.

* The level of dishonesty is staggering. Rarely will people keep their word. I've met teachers who have been royally effed over by "centers" in polymorph ways. 

* Soft skills? Forget it! 

* Bring sauces and be very careful whom to give your dry cleaning. Had delicate suits ruined by greedy bastards doing MACHINE WASHING.

* There is an energy, a quest for life. And in business, they are hard and tough like ingrown toenails. 

Last weekend, I stayed at a aub $ 50 apartment with a kitchenette in a small town named HA TRUNG. The building looked ramshackle but was perfectly okay, if you like to be behind bars. 

Closing, you can get delicatessen delivered and buy a long-term VISA, if needed. (Hello Thailand, wake up)!

My landlady just raised the charge per kw/h from 7 to 8 THB. 

Has this law been enforced even once? One wonders.

But the trash collector, who found a DVD, he gets months in jail! 

Can't fault the value for money at my local government hospital. They are dreadfully swamped. Can't afford lower temperatures in big waiting rooms. 

Medicine seems subsidized, TBH. Paid 400 THB for 2 extractions (only 1 was necessary - but that's another story. In Vietnam, I had a moronic dentist who insisted on knocking on the wrong tooth with his metal tool. So hard that it hurt (on any healthy tooth). Was charged the same and that took 1 minute and there were about 8 dentists lazying around in the treatment room)...

2 nights at a Bangkok hospital cost about 200,000 THB. They left me  u n t r e a t e d  for many hours, near the intake where ambulances drop off patients. While in the ambulance, I told the young doctor that I#ve had a thrombossis followed by pulmonary emboslism. (Same as my Dad).

NO, some greedy or vainglorious big boss doctor is to get the farang patient. Then he used ultra sound and 210 seconds later, all was revealed.

One glove was taken, a pack of 200 billed. And the private room was uselessly nice with microwave etc. Wish, some government hospital had taken me!! 

On 2/27/2019 at 4:02 AM, Scott said:

During the probation period, the person can be released from employment without cause, although it's a good idea for an employer to have a reason.   There have been employers who hire people and then fire them at the end of probation as a way of minimizing costs.   I don't know any schools that have done this, but I have heard of a case where this was standard operating procedure.   I believe they got into some trouble with the law over this practice.

 

After probation, there needs to be cause and the cause needs to be in writing and unless it particularly egregious, the person needs to have some time to correct the deficiency.   I believe 3 warnings are to be given before termination.  

 

Private schools do not have to pay severance.   Some situations I am aware of employees who were terminated without going through the proper procedures were given pay, but it was severance, for example, they may be given pay to the end of the contract, since they were unfairly dismissed.

 

 

Excuse me, Scott: have you read the Private Schools' Act?   You have got this wrong. But time will tell as I managed to get a hearing later this week. 

How has your job search been going so far? Got feedback? Talk to them, you have a huge advantage over other foreigners, JMHO. Use it! There is real  f e a r  when it comes to communicating with foreign jobseekers...

Go to the bus stop (turn left when you exit the terminal). Take the 554. I prefer that to the 555.

DTAC has been discriminating against foreigners at DMK for years. NO option to enter the foreign passport,  o n l y  Thai IDs were accepted... Unlike @  BKK.

It has been years since I flew A.A. from DMK. Missed a flight, had maximum stress although I was there hours early for the departure... Similar chaos overseas.  No, other airlines are a pleasure by comparison:

Vietjet, Lion Air, ... VJ doesn't fly from DMK. And BKK means an added bus ride for me.

Still, hell no to Air Asia! 

On 2/13/2019 at 5:52 PM, shadowofacloud said:

170 THB base fare for 29km + 50 THB surcharge for airport trip + 70 THB for tollways. (IIRC)

Thanks for the answer, but the base fare is way to low. Sorry mate! 

Walk to the bus stop and get a bus into Bangkok. 20 km later, get off and  t h e n  take a taxi ????

NOx, some workout booster? Lots of stuff can be shipped to Thailand.

Have you tried Thai supplements' shops like www.fitwhey.com ?

* Chrome OS, Thinkpad X131 E, 4 GB RAM. Boots in 8 seconds and powers down in 1,5 seconds.

I went to city hall and they had translators and helpful staff. They called Tourist Police...

Has anyone used the Tourist Police to get results in a dispute with a landlord?

In my case, they keep doubling actual charges for electricity. 8 THB! 7 THB? A friend pays 3.9 THB in the same city...

Update: The school said "no problem" and they all went to Immigration (that implies they have got their WPs).

Alas, they are now all doing a family VISA run. That tells me, this thing has not worked out at all!

(Thainess: sugar coating an issue? Westerners usually prefer people who are being frank)

Where is your 7 made? If in Vietnam, I know a huge Canon factory in Cac Ninh and could ask over there, cutting out middle men. 

I would consider selling it for parts, if the price can't be lowered.

I would spend a few months in Vietnam and Laos. 

Book a hotel for the month for good deals. The same applies to Thailand, BTW.