A short list of issues we face:

- never ending webs of lies / "miscommunication" from both the Chinese management and the people who should be managing the FT's Nothing new there, This is common in many Chinese schools

- the FT's are always last to know anything - even students get to know what dates we will be allowed to leave before we do We have been told at 5pm on a Friday afternoon that we are required to attend school at 10am Saturday morning because it's 'Parents Day' - something we later find out was arranged 2 weeks ago - again, nothing new

- zero resources available to teachers, they will provide chalk to write on the blackboard, that's it. Yep, no textbooks, no printer, no photocopier.

- deductions from our salaries without cause or reason Illegal. Check your contract.

- few / no rights - utterly hopeless Directors with no sway with the school Not 'hopeless', just incompetent. Yet they are the ones allowed to judge the competence of FTs.

- mandatory meetings / events that fall on your day off Check your contract. If it doesn't say you should attend mandatory meetings on your day off, they cannot force you to.

- the head of the school is truly the most unpleasant person you will ever meet Bad luck !

- the most useless and rude Chinese staff you will ever meet - and that's on a good day

- mandatory overtime which you will never be paid for. If you have signed a contract that allows them to make you do mandatory overtime without pay, then you're a fool for signing it.

The best advice I can think of is to thoroughly check your contract before signing it, then stick to it - RIGIDLY.