Ah, I remember back to the time when I was in high school trying to act like I was much older. I wasn’t that bright and I would spend so much time looking for a special gift for a girl in order to make her my girlfriend. I would search stores high and low, but today, it’s very easy to go online and a find a birthday gift for girlfriend and never miss a beat.

That’s indeed much easier than it used to be. Just surf the web and find a recommendation for a great birthday gift, what could be easier? Kids these days do have it easier.

I’ve always been concerned offending other TEFL sites when working with TEFLWatch because they were a significant source of traffic. I gave many of the sites a long leash and I listened to the myriad of arguments that they had to earn money too. I guess they do and they should be run like a business, but any business that exists with the primary objective of fleecing new teachers is a lousy business and one that needs to be called out. So here is your chance, people.

You can call out a TEFL site on this thread. If you want your comment to appear then you need to make it between 100 and 200 words and give support for at least 3 reasons why you are calling them out.

No calling out TEFLWatch, there’s plenty of other sites where you can do that if you are a school lackey.

A midnight run, a midnight flit, pulling a runner or just plain quitting without notice, whatever you choose to call it, it means just one thing, quitting your job abruptly. Since our visas are tied to schools, quitting your TEFL job sometimes entails leaving the country on short notice. Sometimes with draconian contract provisions and the fear of living in a foreign country as a TEFL teacher, it can seem like the only option is to leave your TEFL job abruptly.

Is it ever acceptable to pull a midnight run on a school? Have you ever pulled a midnight run on a school? Under what circumstances do you think it is acceptable? Check out our poll this month and leave your comments here.

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