In response to Get real! (Chengdu FT)

Example number one lying in your recruitment advertisements.

Elaborate

Example two, Physically assaulting teachers! Yes the male manager of the Chengdu branch physically assaulted a female foreign teacher. The other foreign teachers had to break up the fight. Then the manager told the staff NOT to call the police. Eventually a parent of the students called the police.

Well there are always two sides to every story, and considering you even state that you only went through the interview process at Hampson, never actually worked there, it is fair to say that you are passing on what you have heard, that it is heresay and may have never even happened. I won't accuse you of libel but I do accuse you of involving yourself in Chinese whispers, and hey, for the sake of it actually being true, lets condemn the entire network of branches for the actions of one person why don't we. Whilst we are at it, I got my pocket picked a while back by someone Chinese, shall we condemn the whole of China for it and tell people not to come here, by your logic everyone in China, including my wife and kids are thieves. Shall we continue to condemn all Germans for the holocaust? I have nothing more to say on that matter.

Example three, massive turn over! Schools that change their staff completely twice a year. With the sole exception of tianjinrobbie.

Yet another uninformed statement, how do you know the exact 'turn over' of staff at all the Hampson branches? You have stated you know nothing about the branch I work for and perhaps they are professional. You say you are in ChengDu and that is where you interviewed but declined the job. Hampson have many branches located across China, are you physically visiting them all and keeping tabs on every FT that works for the entire network of Hampson branches and monitoring the turn over?
I work for Hampson and even I cannot say what the turn over of FT's is across China. What I can say is that I know a number of FT's that have worked at Hampson longer than I, which includes other branches in Beijing.
Hampson often get some FT's that work part time through the school holidays, so in that respect yes teachers come and go, I think you need to do a proper fact check here before making rash statements that have no weight behind them.

Example four, with holding money from people's pay. Not 100% sure about this but reasonalbly sure it is illegal. Most people leave jobs due to problems with management or managers and only occasionally for more money.

First of all, they do not withhold money from peoples pay, when you get your contract you will be directed to a clause in your contract which stipulates that Hampson will take a deposit from you first salary. It states the reason why and states when you will get it back again. It is not illegal, you are signing to agree to it in your contract for one thing and therefore giving consent. Secondly, if such an act was illegal, then every employer in the United Kingdom is breaking the law by making you work a week or a month in hand and paying the first wage/salary upon you leaving the company. Western companies use the week/month in hand clause to ensure you do not simply break your contract and leave without giving the company the required period of notice, if you do, they don't have to pay you that money. Explain what the difference is, because the only difference I see is that opposed to holding your entire salary back for the first month, like a western company does, they hold back a small percentage. Lets do the math, no salary for the first month, a little but of your salary held back for the first month............Hmmmmmmmmm my brain hurts. Using the same statement you opened your post with 'GET REAL' That is the way companies operate in general and using such a fact to try and make Hampson look bad makes it look like you have never actually spent any time working for a company before. I think anyone coming to China who has worked in their own country for any period of time, most certainly in the UK will understand and accept someone holding part of your first salary back.

Recently a lot of teachers have left

Have they now, and would you like to elaborate further on that statement too? How many? Where were they working? Or is this just another assumption?

Look mate, I really don't wanna fall out with you and I am not trying to purposely antagonise you, but so far I see no examples put forward that have any weight whatsoever. Everything is based on heresay and further more you are cherry picking.