OK place to start - English Teacher English 1 Employee Review

2.0
21 Jan 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Foreign Management. Opportunity for promotion (with extra compensation). Mixing the Chinese and Foreign staff in the office seating arrangement (I liked that as it didn't feel like we were being segregated, and it made for a much nicer office environment). Paid on time AND received full value of benefits (didn't have to beg for airfare subsidies etc). Pleasant and helpful HR staff (though maybe I was just lucky... I heard that some others were not quite as fortunate as myself). Took care of all housing and visa related expenses.

Cons

Very low pay. Bratty kids. CC's who don't communicate with you properly (whenever classes were cancelled, I wasn't informed. Sometimes I had spent a lot of time on preparing them too). CCs not translating the true meaning of what we were asking them to communicate to the parents as it would be bad for business. No assistance for foreign teachers teaching up to 16 small, undisciplined kids who could barely understand a few words and couldn't understand basic instructions (CCs would disappear from the floor during class time and could not even be in their offices if you needed their assistance). Aggressive marketing strategies including illegally obtaining children's phone numbers when doing school demos. Dismissive upper management.

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