We often LOOK for things to complain about half-the-time - it's why Brits are still called 'whingeing Poms' in Australia!

I certainly do my fair share of whingeing, but that's mostly down to the wonderful 'notice' that our schools give us, (calling at 6pm at night to tell you that tomorrow is a 'make-up day', etc), and the fact that most of our Chinese 'leaders' act like they have a PhD in 'incompetency'.

Our FAO, for example, has about as many 'man-management skills' as a retarded donkey, but moving to another school wouldn't change these things.

On the plus-side, we're not micro-managed, we're not forced to do office hours, and they don't mess up our salary payment.

All we have to do is T.U.A.T, (an acronym for 'Turn Up And Teach'), so I guess there's really not too much to complain about.

Foxy, you're right in the case of most public educational establishments in China.

As for the private sector, especially training centers, there are likely to be problems with dishonesty regarding full payments for teaching, and of air fare allowances, not to mention increased levels of stress due to insecurity of employment related to inaccurate evaluations of an FT's work performance by unqualified picky parents and inexperienced Chinese teachers and teaching assistants.