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Yo, I just remembered like 6 years ago this French guy sitting opposite me in Starbucks was like "Hey wanna start an English company with me?" And I said... "Yeh, sure!" Swapped details and stuff and that was it for then.
Yo, I just remembered like 6 years ago this French guy sitting opposite me in Starbucks was like "Hey wanna start an English company with me?" And I said... "Yeh, sure!" Swapped details and stuff and that was it for then.
Few days later he messages me saying he's making a contract and that I should read it through properly. Another few days later I get the contract. It's half a page of A4 and looks proper dodgy. So of course I signed it.
He tells me he's renting a space to start teaching but meanwhile he wants to test my voice and teaching skills to see if I'm good enough - even though he's just hired me. I had to read some children's stories. Turns out they were for his kid and he played them for her. Weird.
Anyway, I eventually go to this random building (lol), and he's there with a whiteboard, 3 pens, about 6 books and he says "Today, we make history." Remember that quote ladies and gents. "Today, we make history."
So, anyway, I'm waiting for him to start and he's like "Ok over to you man!" I'm like "Eh?" He said "Teach! Let's go!" Apparently he wanted me to teach someone (him? the empty room?), with no prior knowledge, lesson plan or even a fucking hint of what to do.
I just stared at him and was like "So, what do you want me to do exactly?" He said "Hmm maybe I've made a mistake." IN FRONT OF ME! Paid me 1500 for the 20 minutes I was there and said "The students will be disappointed." Never saw a single student.
He then messaged me back and said "Sorry for putting you on the spot in class" (again noone was there) "but how about you design a textbook with me instead. We can make a lot of money and I've already planned it out. Just need a native person's voice!" Guess what..? I said "Sure"
Meet in Starbucks and literally every single word and phrase is mental but he did in fact have a fully published book. For the life of me I can't recall it's name but how the FUCK it got published I'll never know. Japan innit though lol. I didn't want to be rude so I...
just read the correct English and ignored his mistakes. He got all flustered in the cafe and asked me why I was reading it wrong and what was wrong with me. I said "Well your English is wrong. I'm just trying to read it correctly. No harm intended." We were there for 2 hours.
He said he didn't have cash on him and I was like FFS. Kept messaging him after and about 2 weeks later we met and he paid me like 8000 yen. I was like "This is too much man" and he replied "Don't negotiation with me MAN!" and walked off.
Fin.
Fin.
