Now, this is loosely related to business English, and if you remember THIS article, then you'll know how I feel about that, although this particular blast is on the idiots who pay idiots to give them shit lessons for big bucks.
Of course, very rich, or just rich Russians paying outrageous sums of money for crap services or products is nothing new, we've all seen it and we've all had to fork out money on stuff that inst worth it. But what I don't understand is why would you pay so much more for something which is a completely unjustifiable cost? I'm not talking about paying more for a higher quality product here either (don't complain about this to a Russian woman who you might get lucky with - those panties will come right back up at the speed of light)
I mean, if you have the brains to make enough money to throw it away on bullshit, would you not stop and think the whole process was leading to nothing and you were seeing no improvements? Would you still pay a fitness trainer if after six months you had not made a grain of progress in either muscle growth or fat loss?
Hell no (or yes as the case seems to be). So when did everyone stop caring about results?
What sparked this of is a guy I know who makes 100,000 per month teaching (considering this is tax free, we can all agree that that's not too bad, especially when the average Russian wage is 20,000 per month and the whole world economy is fucked).
He doesn't speak a wisp of Russian, hates teaching and couldn't care less about his students, but all they same, these business dick heads fork over 2500 per 90 minutes. Now this price could only possibly be justified if maybe the client was far away and the lessons were top quality with a person who knows and enjoys what he's doing. I mean imagine you taking a language lesson from someone off the street who decided they were going to teach you and squeeze you for that easy money?
I know this guy, he's what I’d call an acquaintance, and I find it about as hard to imagine him doing a good job as I do a Russian babushka pole dancing (and I have a vivid imagination).
I find kermit more blog-appropriate than pole-dancing babushkas...
I'd never change more than 1000 per 60 minutes out of principle alone, then again, that's probably why I'm not rich. A lesson just isn’t worth that much, no matter how awesome or special we think we are, it’s just a fucking English lesson and besides, the work of learning a language is almost 100% dependant on the individual and motivation anyway.
Although, maybe we're all guilty of this retarded spending to some extent, like for example every time we visit shokolandnitsa.
I was sat in there other day, drinking a fricking shot glass of coffee for 150 roubles, looking at some ten year old kid in a suit (I shit you not) and listening to him boasting about how he had сто баксов (100 bucks) to a younger girl. Imagine that, at the tender age of ten he is already a blossoming dick head.
(Here I should mention that he was with his parents and the parents of the girl)
But like a lovably addicted crack addict, I always vow I won’t end up back in Shokoladnitsa, but somehow I always do - usually when I'm on the road and have an hour to kill.
Maybe I should have offered oligarch Jr. some 'elite' business English lessons and got some of that sweet payday action…
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=XDI2QOGB
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