Who were these Indonesians who resisted the TBI Mafia?
There were at least three Indonesian school managers who had stood up to Luke Preece and complained about him to Mariam and HR. By the end of 2012 they had all been fired, bringing the total of fired managers from 2011 and 2012 to over ten individuals. Basically everyone except their rotten, crooked clique was shown the door in a humiliating fashion. The three last non-Mafia Indonesian managers were Mariezka, Ratna and GA from TBI Malang. Within a 12 month period Luke Preece had got rid of all them too, usually by a combination of spies, slander and threats and intimidation. I know this because I personally spoke to two of them and had other teacher sources about the third. They all reported Luke Preece lying about them, rigging appointments in favour of his stooges and in one case flat out ordering them to resign and lie it was their own idea.
What happened to Mariezka?
You will remember that she had complained to HR about Luke in 2010 when Luke rigged the appointment of his best friend, Scott Martin, to lead TBI Jalan Jawa. Luke obviously had it in for her because after she became school manager of TBI Depok, she didn’t last long at all. When I asked her what her problems are she said that the managers didn’t approve of her. Every time they spoke to Luke Preece they came back angry at her and had “the completely wrong idea” about everything that had happened. I suggested to her that he was poisoning them against her by misrepresenting events. She agreed with that and said that they “loved Luke” and believed everything he said, so she felt powerless against his lies. Within a few weeks of that call, she was gone. She later made some sort of statement saying, “It was her idea to leave,” but that wasn’t what she had said to me just weeks before. She said that she loved the job but the owners had been turned against her by Preece, which is completely typical.
What else did she say?
She said that Ashley Platts’s training sessions were “worse than useless” and “a complete waste of time”, an opinion with which I heartily agreed. I knew that these training sessions had been judged a dismal failure as so many of his “graduates” had failed in the role, and so I knew that she was astute to see through this charlatan. Perhaps the most telling part came a few days later, however.
