Those schools usually either hire two groups of people. One is a bunch of unqualified alcoholic losers who are happy to dance like a good little white monkey for a job performance that even McDonalds wouldn't tolerate in their native countries. These idiots are usually delighted to work for the training center--and who wouldn't? I've known buffoons who slept through their own classes at least once every two weeks and still had a job that paid them an unlimited booze allowance.

Or, they prey on enthusiastic, prepared, and naïve kids who just graduated from university and see ESL as a vehicle for travel/education and saving for graduate school. They are stupid for getting trapped into those schools, yes, but they are usually easy pickings for the training centers because they are brand new to the job market, period...and definitely do not understand the extra jaded lens you need to view China's unregulated ESL market through. They start happy to have a job, then get disillusioned...because they got degrees and creds to be a teacher, and usually end up playing duck-duck go as a substitute teacher for their douchebag co-worker who called out hung over.

Let's get one thing straight, Incognita; degree-holders or not, FT's are not proper teachers; and calling people losers because they like a drink is a bit silly and judgemental- I mean, they, these sleepy boozy teachers may well think you are a loser, for not coming to China (maybe you had to because you couldn't be a proper teacher back home-not saying that's the fact mind) and letting your hair down and having a good time, for what is for most of us an extended working holiday in China and definitely not a career move hahaha- all good fun. am I right or am I right?

This Shane place sounds like a good gig, please send contact details.

One word of warning; whereas being drunk or sober won't interfere with your abilities as an oral English teach, too much drink will put inches around your waist, so best kept to getting blotto once a week.