Saturday, June 6, 2009

Are There any Examples of This in BKC?

Originally posted on the BKC Moscow Teacher's Forum

Are there any examples of this in BKC?

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed. The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28 in 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. The term "Stockholm Syndrome" was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.

In 2007, a group of scholars studied twelve highly-publicized cases of Stockholm syndrome, publishing their results in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia. They argued that, as the media accounts lacked "access to primary sources" or an "identification of a pattern of features exhibited in Stockholm syndrome," the characterization of any of these events as Stockholm syndrome could have been due to reporting bias.

Psychoanalytic explanations:

According to the psychoanalytic view of the syndrome, the tendency might well be the result of employing the strategy evolved by newborn babies to form an emotional attachment to the nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the probability that this adult will enable — at the very least — the survival of the child, if not also prove to be a good parental figure. This syndrome is considered a prime example for the defense mechanism of identification.


Reply From Another BKC Moscow Teacher

Stockholm syndrome at BKC? Of course not! How silly.

I love it when they peg my wage lower than the official exchange rate...when they deduct chunks out of my bonus because they did not see my name on a saturday seminar sheet...when they waste hours of my life on stand-by...when they ignore my pleas about the slowly deteriorating state of my flat...when i prepare meticulously for classes and then discover i was given entirely wrong information...I LOVE IT. IT GETS ME HIGH. YES YES YES! Give me a new contract! I want to sign it NOW....Oh i'm so horny right now!!!! YES YES YES!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Can Hourly Paid, Off-Contract BKC Teachers Get Some Fucking Flats?

Originally posted on the BKC Teacher's Forum

Free flats?

May 15, 2009

Dear person in charge of accommodation

I read on the Internet that all licensed educational establishments in Russia are required by law to provide free accommodation to foreign English teachers. Is this true? Doesn't this mean that you have to provide for off-contract teachers too? Or at least give them an allowance for their apartments?

I look forward to your considered answer.

May 31, 2009

It is so easy to know when a nerve has been struck in BKC. Deafening silence...
 
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