I am not sure what his problem is. All I know is that Mr He-Ape was a knowledge worker, somehow wasn't promoted for the better part of his life and wanted to strike out on his own. While I can sympathise with him on the kind of conditions he was operating on, having been there part of the time myself, I could not of course understand why he imposed exactly those conditions under which he had foundered. Like having his family and kin on board - women mostly.
He struck out at a most opportune moment, being the first mover in his field and grew substantially in his personal fortunes. But if he were to make himself out to be a poor boy made good, this most definitely wasn't. He was already from a privileged family and to begin his trade, he had amassed a small fortune to be able to employ people to do some of the work for him.
The end-point colored when he got carried away with his riches and brags about the palace he owns. He impressed me as someone insecure about his personal worth having to explain away the semi-detached he owns and not the detached one he should be owning. He is most likely a poor judge of character, someone with a very light ear who would listen to close "friends" and subordinates (read: syncophants) without more analytical proof, a poor reader of situations and a demagogue who could rouse his students to be dung-throwers and perpetrators of petty crimes. This is mostly aimed at those who had opposed him in one way or another. So we must all live in fear of him, his son and Mr-Ex-Police-Officer.
He runs the organisation with a Mafia-like atmosphere, an ex-police officer as the scare-mascot to intimidate one and all into colluding with him in the sin of lies and bluff. I have seen those poor innocents not knowing any better, except for the cheap fees they pay, taking instructions from all manner of trades-people - supposed ex-knowledge workers without credentials to boot, stewardesses, civil defence fighters and ticketing agents. Many of the students just address everyone as "teacher".
Being a knowledge-imparter to young minds, he can be excused for the mostly inane plane he communicates on. Other than the fantastic science he does, I cannot find any other shred of wisdom or experience he has made worthy, apart from the riches he made, wringing suckers dry.
His sister-in-law guards the fort and he is never seen anywhere anytime soon. He is supposed to be the "supervisor" but I don't see any supervision. He runs a chain in disparate locations and all are registered under his name. So much for good governance on the part of Ministry of Education.
Instead M/s Black Widow is the supervisor, ex-factory production worker. I have to report to her for various school matters. Among some of her inane suggestions is for me to make students stay behind and re-do their work. What she forgets is that this could be the last lesson for the day and that will delay her closing-up time inevitably and she pays for this dearly. I could see her scowl.
Miss She-Ape, his favourite spewspigot and cahooter, is naturally at the top of her league. The rest of us are to carry out the microcosmal elucidation while she sits at the throne, taking credit for our work. It is a surprise that she teaches the language when she cannot even write one sentence without some grammatical errors or other. The academy must be seriously flawed if it is churning out people like her for the institutions. Suffer the little ones, I will say.
She gets her way by pure intimidation, a loud booming voice to win her argument. That is about it. Loads of sytle without a slightest hint of substance. And lazy, no grading of assignments needed. She even boasts about it.
Miss Shrill-Ass dates me and makes me spend money. She brought me home one day and my impression of her lessened even more thereafter. She wasn't even helping out with the food preparation but was ordering her older sister about. She was certainly a tai-tai. She even calls her brother a "useless" person and I kept thinking what right she has to even pass any comment about anyone especially since the only crime his brother committed was to be an easy-going, aloof sort of person holding down a job at a furniture store.
Not anymore "useless" than her because I know she can't even cook for all the peanuts in the world. All she did was wash up while I did fried rice. Not forgetting this was on the pretext of wanting to check out my house. She must have reported falsely back to M/s Big Boss, who sarcastically stated that I must be a very clean person, insinuating that I must have kept cleaning up.
Anyone who can assess the situation well and see that this is the norm of an organisation can never hope to prosper or advance anywhere. If these are people who can stay on in an organisation, god forbids , you should know where you stand. Why would you ever want to work in such a scenario?
____________End of Part 2_______________________
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