2nd. Dan, who are you? I never once heard your name while I worked there nor met you. You are either A. One of Worlda's many fake posts on this forum or B. a testament to Worlda's major efforts to keep foreigners away from each other.

Worlda makes a massive effort to spilt up friends who come together and people who start to become friends. They ran interference constantly on me when I was trying to meet new people.

Worlda are notorious for doing that. I was once at a barbecue dinner in Huadu district with two British guys and an American who all worked for Worlda. The older British guy warned the new guys not to tell a girl called Jessie (Their supervisor/TA or something) about knowing each other as Worlda likes to spy upon people by asking teachers questions about them etc. Jessie is known to pretend to be nice and another victim of Mary, but is really just an arse-kisser who performs her dirty work.

In what world were you granted a school change? I asked and I never received. I wanted to stay with my school I taught at, and my school wanted me back, yet at the semester I was changed to a school that would bring in more money for them. I know this because Worlda thought I didn't understand any Chinese yet I constantly told them I was learning the language. They them proceded to talk about my pay in front of me.

Yeah, they even told one of the guys (Who speaks Cantonese fairly well) who used to work at Worlda, that they will speak in Mandarin in front of him because they don't want him to know what they are saying. That smacks of pure arrogance really.

Growth at an amazing rate? You call having a total of 30 teachers in Guangzhou an amazing rate?

Of course, they only have 30 teachers in Guangzhou... Reason 1: Crap private schools fail to pay fees to Worlda - previously mentioned friends in Huadu had to move to Tianhe and Panyu respectively because some HK company that owned the school realised the exact level of corruption taking place at the school, thus cutting off funds. Worlda took those guys out of the school and moved them without them getting a say in things.

The more important 2nd reason is that they usually farm teachers out to other provinces. This is highly illegal as the teacher's visas are obtained in Guangdong province, yet many teachers are sent to places like Hunan or Guizhou. This was even proved in the link in my earlier post.

AHAHAHAH, PAID ON TIME!!?!?!??!? In what world? Maybe you were lucky, but I never received my paycheck on time. It was always late. You remember when "the bank had issues so we couldn't pay you today" Yeah the bank didn't have issues, I checked, they just forgot to pay us that day. And in reference to your overtime pay below, its a load of crap. I had to fight for a week once to get my overtime pay recognized and ultimately had to threaten to leave the company just to get the overtime pay I was DESERVED

Yeah, my friend threatened to get a lawyer involved, pointing out that $2000 contract breach penalty works both ways. He magically got paid instantly after that.

After working with Worlda and coming to China without knowing any Chinese I can tell you it is not hard to negotiate with the schools. It was actually a rather easy process because I was able to do it with the Chinese I picked up over the course of a semester.

To be honest, if nobody at a school speaks any English at all, it gives you a good idea of the establishment that might be dealing with.
Good public universities tend to feature Chinese staff that speak excellent English, poor private schools tend to as the language requirements aren't important, they just want a dancing white monkey.

This part is true. I never had an issue with them taking my passport nor heard of any of this while I was there.

Unfortunately, I have many stories to suggest that they will try if they think that you are not smart enough to realise that they are conning you. They told my friend to hand over his passport as they thought he was a flight risk. He threatened to call his consulate. Thus passport was never taken and he was safe.

Sigh, don't get me started on Mary. She is racist and ignorant. She doesn't know how to deal with foreigners. The mention of her name gets my blood boiling. I will leave it at that

I have heard so many stories... She is a bit shy and reclusive on the internet as she knows that she can not defend what she has done to various teachers.

This is acceptable to you? I haven't met one person who thought what you just said was acceptable. You can't just show up unannounced while I am teaching. Teaching is a very controlled process and your interruptions are rude and can throw me off while I am teaching. The apartment I was at was actually great, but not all the other apartments. I have seen a HORRIBLE apartment. I throw up a little in my mouth when I think about that apartment. I don't think Worlda even examined it.

One of the Worlda guys got put up in an economy hotel room for the few months that he stayed in Huadu, it was clean and everything, I went to house parties there but... I think you are not really supposed to stay in such places if you have a residence permit, but then again I know some engineer guys in other cities that stay in 4 and 5 star hotels for months on end.

Of course nobody is going to post about how great their company is? What the hell are you talking about. You know you have a good company when people DONT post bad things about it.

Well said, sir.

HA, you're full of it. Worlda pay is the worst. I know someone getting paid 5,500RMB a month. Also 20-25 what an hour? USD RMB CAN????

Unfortunately, I think that they target new foreign teachers that don't know their market rate. I knew one that was making 6,800 who got his apartment from them and the other guy was getting 10k but had to rent his own place. One got told by a rare case of a nice person at one of the schools, that the schools pay about 10,000 a month for Worlda's services, yet the teachers don't get all the money. Teachers can often easily get 13 to 15k in GZ, even at places like EF.