I can certainly substantiate all the accusations about Metro, Helen Zhou, and her little puppy Helen. I was contacted by them due to my experience with their CALL methods (at the time) and since I was close in Zhaoqing I went there for a so-called interview. Turned out that I was to choose a class from their files and do a sample teaching. With my prior experience about the liklehood of the students who would be in attendance, I choose one of the Bg classes. They were completely disorganized, made me wait for an hour, and they had a hard time finding some students for me to teach as the place seemed very empty. I had some time to poke around and found all those beautiful folders in the glass cases were empty, as were the teachers desks. Then I began to teach the three students who were all way too advanced for the beginner course I choose. So, like any good teacher I improvised and tried to upgrade the material in the class. I had to endure Helen critize my teachiing even though she couldn't have been more than 21 years old and I a highly respected teacher in China for 15 years. I couldn't get any information from Helen about how they promoted people since I was clearly more superior than just an ordinary teacher. Of course they did the "bait ande switch" tactic and all in all I came away with an unfavorable impression of the place, not at all like my experience working for King's Internationl English of Xiamen, where they obviously stole their method and material. I knew it was just a matter of time until I would see a negative post about this school.