One of the worst organizations. - Teacher TAG Members Employee Review

1.0
8 Feb 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Moderately acceptable housing and consistent pay.

Cons

Extremely poor communication. They yell at you for looking at your phone during work but then a week later, will yell at you for not looking at the group texts for very last minute notifications. They solely communicate with the Korean teachers and a lot of times won't even talk to the foreign head teachers. There are about one major event a month where you have to work all throughout your working hours, even your break, for about 2 weeks to prepare. This place does not spend money on ANY decorations and will make their teachers make EVERYTHING from scratch. The only thing they are lenient on are streamers. They will buy streamers for decorations but everything else, MUST BE MADE BY HAND. With this considered, you would think the facility provides enough materials but teachers here fight for and hoard materials so they can have the "better" product because that's how you get on the "good-side" with the management. No materials as in basic adult scissors and colored paper. The management will give you no information on their standards of the event decoration and when it is subpar to their standards, they will shame the head teachers and degrade them in front of everyone in a meeting. The standards are not set but the higher-up was a design major so her expectations are outlandish. Don't expect a raise, let alone any type of negotiation mid-way (even if it is apparent you are working harder than everyone else) because the principal will scream at you, accusing you of being only money hungry and greedy. If you are lazy and want to do bare minimum, feel free to work at TAG. They will deliberately not give you work and have very low expectations of you but you will have to compromise with being demeaned and sporadically rebuked for insignificant matters. Korean teachers love to gossip and not work, so if you are a foreigner, expect to handle a class of 11-15 babies that are 5-7yo by yourself. The level of the babies vary from almost fluent to peeing themselves, crying everyday; some may not even know the alphabet but the expectations for them are finishing 3-5 pages of a textbook that are 2 years above level. Because of covid, some of the students are eating in the classroom and the teachers have to set up their lunch trays themselves with barely any help. They recycle food from the previous shift of classes that eat in the classrooms and there is never enough food for the students or the teachers. If you are lazy and don't care about occasionally being bullied by management but your priority is good housing and on-time, accurate pay; Tag is the place for you. Also, if you are single and looking to date, this place is a smorgasborg of people dating within the workplace. Lastly, if you are a foreigner, you must look everything up yourself and do everything you need to do by yourself. Immigration, banking, housing needs, etc. You will absolutely get no help from management and no one speaks English well. All the foreign teachers here look everything up themselves through a translator or through FB. The reviews below that are positive were uploaded by management or head teachers. The one negative review, IS TRUE AND FACTUAL WHAT WAS WRITTEN. The rebuttal reply from the vice principal is a lie. Nothing the vice principal stated has ever been implemented for the year 2020-2021. She doesn't even work at TAG anymore because she quit.

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3.0
25 Nov 2024
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Pros

Excellent support with classroom materials, can live on campus in school provided housing, school provided meals are delicious

Cons

Lots of work, little to no downtime, illegally fired one teacher, parents are awful (I knew multiple teachers that cried from parent harassment) and the previous principal was much better.

2.0
26 Feb 2019
Recommend
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Pros

*School building is lovely and spacious. *Native English teachers are friendly and are great at collaborating with each other. *Salaries are paid on time.

Cons

*New school (opened in March 2018) that has not yet found its footing. *Management team (top to bottom) are extremely emotionally unstable, unprofessional and petty. *Management creates a stressful work environment and often threatens to fire employees over the smallest things and will take their stress out on employees by. *Terrible communication from the Management team towards members of staff. *School will not uphold their end of contract signed and will try to get out of paying airfare back and will try to break contract at the drop of a hat. *School will ask you to work on the weekend and to stay late after work - with no overtime pay.

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TAG Members Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience at TAG Members. Sorry, it took us a while to respond and your time at TAG Members didn’t live up to your expectations, but we didn’t see your review until just now. We would like to take the time to address each point specifically. *(1) Yes, we just opened less than two years ago, but we don’t look at that as a weakness at all. We have great facilities, up to date American curriculum, and a lot of opportunities for professional growth. *(2) We always stress professionalism at TAG Members and treat our employees with respect. We are not sure what you mean by the entire management team is extremely emotionally unstable, unprofessional and petty. We are happy to speak to you more about this if you desire. *(3) We are sorry to hear you felt stressful, but we never intentionally stress out employees, and we have never threatened to fire employees over the smallest things. We always try to speak with teachers first about areas that can be improved. Like most companies and schools, we have clear policies for sick days, termination, tardiness, and professional appearance in our employee handbook that we follow and make sure teachers understand clearly. *(4) Communication is important to us, and we always welcome staff feedback and take it seriously. That’s why we have weekly age-group meetings, daily announcements, and an open door policy at TAG Members. *(5) Depending on the individual’s contract, we typically purchase an airfare ticket from Seoul to the person’s home country. If an employee decides to purchase their own flight ticket, we typically offer 600.000 won. If an employee’s friend or significant other got more for airfare reimbursement from another school, we are obviously not legally obligated to match that amount. We always uphold our end of the contract and always try to be understanding with teachers. *(6) Yes, sometimes teachers do have to stay late and work three or four Saturdays a year, which is stated clearly in the contract and is typical of English kindergartens throughout Korea. We try to make up for this by offering 15 – 20 paid vacation days a year plus national holidays. Usually, kindergartens offer about 10 days plus national holidays. We are always open to answer any questions. You can visit our website at http://tagmembers.co.kr/ or contact us at tagmembers1@naver.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
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