My sympathies go out to those still having problems.Keep your chin up guys things will improve soon.
2 months flood two months no salary! too bad for me.
I stay in Bangkok, but work in Nonthaburi. My school has been flooded badly, 1.5m. I can consider myself lucky as I have been paid full salary for October and I was supposed to be back at school on the 24th October. Because of floods everything was postponed. I am too positive if I say that I can back to school at the beginning of December.
October was contractually a paid holiday. My school was suppose to start back up on the 1st of November. That date changed to the 7th and now the 15th. I had to leave for a visa run in October and I decided to stay away until things looked safe to return.
My apartment area isn’t flooded yet, but it’s on the alert list and the school is in serious danger of flooding badly. I’m scared to return, but I should get the rest of my valuables out of there and try to get paid. But what if the airport floods and I’m stuck there? I have plenty of job offers elsewhere. Do I try to go back and get my stuff and risk it or just plan on kissing my pictures and valuables goodbye as well as a month’s salary?
I personally know of 4 different teachers in the BKK area who haven’t been paid—and were told they wouldn’t be—for November and some or all of December. Two of them have gone to work in Vietnam, one to China, and one to a different part of Thailand. There may be a ‘void’ when a lot of these places reopen and they find out their teachers have split. What do they expect?
By Matt, Thailand on 2011-11-22