I took Clark's advice and more carefully checked out Connexions on the net. It is indeed a real business. But, look what I found at
The Connexions Program - Throughout China
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The Connexions Program - Throughout China
The Connexions Program is pleased to invite you to apply for the following position(s). The information below isnt exhaustive and further and full information is available (ianclark01@gmail.com).
Look at the e-mail address!
I wonder, then, who is writing in the name of connexions on this thread?
Why doesn't he or she sign their posts?
Why wasn't an e-mail address for Miss Fang or a web link to their (only Chinese) website provided?
By the way, contrary to what Clark said in his last post, Connexions
does have an English Web site
Connexions
Looks like a nice outfit.
Someone writing from China would know about the English site, don't you think?
If anyone is still in any doubt that Ian Clark is the voice of Connexions on this thread, that ought to do it. Hmmmmm. Maybe Miss Fang should be notified what is being said on behalf of their organization by their Japanese recruiting officer. Do you really think a professional in Human Resources in China would add emotionally charged language like the following?
"Perhaps you have paranoia or anger management issues."
or
"Mr. Miller’s business, which he holds out to be a learning venue, is a genuinely cheap and shabby little place and a vehicle for his intolerable ego."
I mean come on! It doesn't make sense! No one, other than Clark himself, would use such language to describe a person they haven't met and a business they have never seen.
Why would a Chinese ESL recruiting firm get involved in a Japanese labor dispute anyway?
It just doesn't ring true.
Clark is obviously over his head and ought to pack it in. A libel or slander suit wouldn't be too difficult to prove now I think.
Still,
Brian Miller
Director
The New Village
Kobe, Japan