I've always taken issue with people who assume that 'strapping young grads' leave language training centers because they don't have a work ethic. Perhaps the reason 'strapping young grads' leave training centers is because they did not get a university degree to be a dancing white monkey? One of the litany of reasons that I left English First was that I did not take graduate level courses in applied linguistics from a top-tier university in my country in order to piss away my life sitting in a bar at a 'teaching event', watching my students get drunk out of their minds. So, I took some initiative and found a job where I actually have to challenge myself and apply the skills I learned.

The reason I--and many others that I know--kicked training schools to the curb was not because they made me do their version of "work" (ie, show up to their locations for 8 or 9 hours a day, teach their crummy pre-planned "lessons" that may or may not be ridden with grammatical and other errors, and find ways to kill time when I am not in the classroom), but because I got sick of their (occasionally illegal) bullshit. I believe in professionalism...and I also believe that professionalism is a MUTUAL expectation. If I cannot expect an employer to adhere to its end of the contract, then we do not have a working relationship, and I will not 'do the work' that I am not receiving the pre-agreed compensation in order to do. No pay, no play...it really is that simple.

Additionally, I did meet many sloppy drunks in EF...they never got fired for it. I once saw another FT come to the center still drunk. The DOS gave him a blanket, put him in a fishbowl classroom where all the students could see his drunk ass snoring on the chairs, and let him sleep it off until he was sober enough to teach. Nothing else came of it. Naturally, he stayed at EF, "working" his 45 hour weeks (since EF will be the best job this slob could hope for in his life), and I left to work 15 hours a week. Is that a function of our work ethics, I wonder?