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Thread: Sunlight English in Yangzhou
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[quote=CRYPTATION,442449]I have lived in China for over 1 year now. I have taught fairly exclusively at private training schools (a total of 4, including part-time and full-time), and I recently quit my job at Sunlight English in Yangzhou, JiangSu. I began working there in April, starting out as part-time because they wanted a "trial period" to see if I was suitable. This seems fine with me. During this time, we discussed the contract. I was originally told that they would provide me with a computer to prepare my classes, the salary would be 10,000, and promised an extension of my Z-Visa. Before signing the contract, they did extend my Z-Visa. I was quite surprised and happy that they did so. They seemed very kind and professional. However, when they presented me with the contract, the salary was different. Only 8,000, before tax. They also asked me to teach some classes/activities for “free,” meaning that it did not count towards my work hours, and therefore could not count towards overtime. Until August, they refused to give me any overtime, and stated that overtime was cumulative over the month and must exceed 80 lessons. However, even when I worked over 80 lessons, they changed it to 80 hours of teaching. Each lesson was only 40 minutes. That would mean over 120 lessons per month to get overtime. Within a week of working there, they told me that they would not provide me with a computer, stating that I could share the computer that the secretaries used, or purchase one by myself. More often than not, the printer did not work, which resulted in me, as well as the other teachers, either having to hand draw/write our teaching tools, or simply change our lesson. If we wished to use a computer in the class, we must give them a notice 10 days in advance of the lesson. I often did not have my full schedule for that week until half-way through the week. The other foreign teacher they had hired to teach English was from Germany. He had a strong accent and often made grammar mistakes. Many of the Chinese could not understand him, but because his skin is white, they hired him. He often exchanged contact information with the students, and even visited them at their homes. There was one 14 girl who attended the school, named Lonely, who he confessed his love to. The school did not take this very seriously. When I would take her phone away from her during a lesson, she would sometimes be chatting with him on QQ, and on one occasion, he was discussing inappropriate topics with her. I complained, but the school told me not to concern myself with other people’s private lives, even if they are my students, and scolded me for taking away her phone during class, even though I returned it to her at the end of class.[/quote]
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