Getting Ripped Off at California Wow Fitness Center on Silom
If you’re looking for industrial-scale fitness, there are two major franchises operating in Bangkok that you can choose from: California Wow Experience (formerly California Fitness) and Fitness First. If you choose California (as I unwittingly did) be prepared to be subjected to a barrage of BS sales lines and, in some instances, outright lies, all to fill a monthly quota that these clubs seemed to have imposed upon themselves. Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh – as “this IS Thailand.” ...(
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From IgoUgo member KauaiBoy journal entry at www.IgoUgo.com
A reasonable teacher's salary in Bangkok?
Now that I’ve aired my opinion on the concept of “fairness” in regards to teacher salaries, I suppose it would be appropriate to discuss what I feel is “reasonable”. Once again, we are dealing with an inherently subjective concept and I can only offer you my take based on what
my lifestyle is and how I expect
my salary to support it. (
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-- From IGoUGo member KauaiBoy at www.IGoUGo.com
A fair teacher's salary in Bangkok?
There have been numerous discussions in some of the popular Thai teacher forums regarding so-called "fair" teacher wages. With hiring season upon us, it certainly is a topic that needs to be thoroughly researched, particularly for newbies, if one does not want to get stuck in a perceived "over-worked, under-paid" situation. I do agree with the argument that a teacher's salary (or anyone's salary for that matter) depends largely on the laws of supply and demand, but this really has little to do with what I define as "fairness". (
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-- From IgoUgo member KauaiBoy at www.IgoUgo.com
