If you are currently one of the oppressed teachers at the evil organization, BKC-International House Moscow, you know what happened last week is a grotesque violation of your contract and also law, not to mention plain common sense and dignity.
If you are not (yet) an oppressed teacher of the fascist regime, BKC-IH Moscow, then you may not know:
On February 23, there is a Russian National Holiday that goes by several names. Some call it Defender of the Fatherland Day, Men's Day, and Defender of the Motherland's Day.
No BKC classes were held that day, but in a cunning move, BKC ordered teachers to work the following Saturday to make up for it.
Thus, BKC Moscow didn't give anyone a holiday at all, did it?
Current teachers coined it "Monterday," which happens your Saturday suddenly becomes Monday instead because you haven't got any holiday at all.
We call bullshit on this. We call this filthy fucking cocksucking sickening revolting bullshit on this bogus BKC-IH Moscow practice. Bastard fuckers!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Hi, I like your blog, it's interesting. But, about the recent public holiday, I think you're mistaken. If you look at a calendar, the 23 Feb was a Tuesday, and it was a real holiday,teachers didn't work on this day. The Saturday switch was with the Monday, declared by the Russian government for all of Russia, not just BKC teachers, to allow some people who don't normally work on Saturdays to have a 4 day weekend. Of course it means that the following weekend you only really had one day off, Sunday, since the Saturday had actually been changed by the government into a Monday, and you had to work if Monday is a normal working day for you. It's confusing, I know, but in this case, you DID receive your public holiday as the law states you are entitled to, on Tuesday. Otherwise you would have had the weekend, worked on Monday, then had a day off on Tuesday, which isn't really practical if you want to go away for a few days. If you normally work on Saturday, you would have had to work on the Monday and therefore not get a 4 day weekend. I hope you will understand this concept, as I know it's difficult especially when you are faced with it for the first time. They (the Russian government) also do this when a public holiday falls on a Thursday (they swap the Saturday from the weekend before, or after, I can't remember, with the Friday, to give those people who don't work on Saturday a 4 day weekend.
ReplyDeleteThis system sounds crazy any way you slice it.
ReplyDeleteSure, it's crazy, but it's not BKC ripping you off a day's holiday, it's just a fact of life in Russian when public holidays fall on a Tuesday or a Thursday. It's the Russian government playing with the calendar, for all Russians, and expats, in Russian.
ReplyDeleteyou know, what really surprises me is that si many people abused by BKC keep venting their frustration online instead of actually writing a collective letter to IH.
ReplyDeletesome of the teachers involved with this blog have written letters to IH but IH refuses to help. IH forwards emails to BKC, BKC sends reply to the contrary and IH considers the matter closed.
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