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Thread: Sunlight English in Yangzhou
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[quote=CRYPTATION,442450]They attempted to hire a large number of other foreign teachers, including two people from India, an England-man, an African woman, and two of my former coworkers. I never met most of them; only one of my former coworkers, and a Chinese man who was born and raised in England. My former coworker worked there for 3 days. They promised him a salary of 12,000, as he had been teaching ESL for 30 years, but lowered his salary to 8,000 on the contract. He had also requested that he be allowed to return home, as his mother was on her death bed, but they refused to allow him to return home until after she had died - if they were not too busy. He refused to sign and simply left without notice. The Chinese man from England, he came to the school and observed one of my classes. He asked me my opinion of the school, and asked about my salary. I told him that they don't really keep their word and that it had not been a very pleasant experience for me, but its easy work with decent pay. However, after I told him my salary, he was shocked, as he was only going to 5,000. The next time I met him, he had been left alone with some students and they were climbing on his back. I never saw him again after that. The German man was late to school often, and had 50-100 yuan deducted per day when he was late, and 200 for being late to a lesson. Once, he lost over half of his salary for being late to both school and to his lessons. He left the school and attempted to find other jobs, but Sunlight simply gave him bad recommendations. After one month, they “invited” him to return to their school, probably because they were unable to find any other teachers willing to work at their school, but I do not know whether he accepted it or not. Just before I resigned, they asked me to sign a paper, allowing them to lower my salary and also switch me to part-time, saying that they did not have enough work for me to work full-time. I stated that I simply would like to resign, because I want a stable, full-time job. After some talking, they agreed with my choice, but refused to give me my final salary until after I had resigned, and also threatened to blacklist me if I did not either switch to the lower salary and part-time, or quit. Tomorrow, I should be receiving my final salary. Whether I actually receive it in full is still in question. The biggest problem that I have encountered so far is that they will not give me a letter of recommendation and they also have informed other schools not to hire me. It’s as if they blacklisted me anyway, despite the fact that I went along with their bullshit ways. Do you have any advice on how to handle this type of situation?[/quote]
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