I will remember what you said though and not teach the leaders' nippers for free.

I've heard of foolish and naive FTs doing this and other crazy things. Real snivelling, grovelling weasels, of which there are far too many here in China! By contrast, Chinese teachers would never teach gratis!

As for training centers, I have worked for two. I worked for the first one for spite to rile the public college I was working for because the FAO there was delaying the signature of my contract. I had moved to that city a few days before the teaching was due to start, and taught for a fortnight wihout a signed contract. The contract stipulated that I should ask permission before taking on a second job. After signing the contract that was at long last offered me, I asked if I could CONTINUE teaching at the training center! The FAO was furious, but I told him I hadn't broken the contract as it hadn't been signed during the period I had the two jobs! In fact, the job at the training center was a bad job, I hated it for the fortnight I was there! I managed to relinquish it without losing out financially by using the clause in the public contract pertaining to second jobs. Later I heard the FAO at the college called up the training center to ask if I was still teaching there! Sneaky bastard!

MY second job at a training center was for two days, to act as hoiiday relief for the foreign edutainers employed by a training center in Shijiazhuang. My recruiter had begged me to help him out - he had earlier found a job for me in Hengshui at a key senior middle school, though I had an L visa which I was permitted by my employer not to have to change. I felt I owed the recruiter, so I accepted his temporary job offer, though reluctantly as teaching children bores me very much. There was an African-American teaching some children there. I was asked to observe. The boss, Victor, interrupted the lesson a couple of times to shout out to the Chicagoan that the children wouldn't know the English word he was using! So rude. That Saturday and the following Sunday morning I was whizzed across the city from class to class in the bosses wife's car, almost colliding with another car on the way! I was relieved when Victor didn't ask me back the following weekend - maybe my teaching was below par. Thank the Lord!