Expertise Education offers shared accommodation, EF doesn't offer it. It depends on the franchise. And referring to "a load of rubbish".. Pretty much the OP wrote is bollocks and I can dissect that. I see 9 points, 9 points all EXCUSES. Hence why you haven't responded AT ALL to comments posted here these days.

Everything read just simply shows you are not ready or ever will be ready to take on this lifestyle here in China. That's good because we don't need such people like you.

1) Apartment: Faeces and urine over the floor, black walls, broken and smashed windows, on the 18th floor with all 3 elevators broken, no internet connection like promised and broken beds. (Not the homley, clean and safe apartment promised).

Makebelieve - the place must have been burgled for this to be anywhere near true. Purposefully done by them? Don't think so. EXCUSES

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2) School close to apartment: An hour and a half commute each way is not close. When I said this I was told I was lucky because most Beijingers commute 2-3 hours. (Told in interview we could cycle to school).

Haha, it's China,took me an hour at least. It takes at least an HOUR to get anywhere in Beijing. You were actually LUCKY to be so close. Some people are on the subway from CAOFANG east Line 6 to fuxingmen line 2. So what, what they told you, leave earlier in the morning you were there to work not play ......... EXCUSES

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3) Medical: Be prepared to have an internal exam. We weren't warned about this and the staff member who showed us to the hospital left us so we couldn't communicate and only knew what was happening when the doctor started pulling at our skirts. Another teacher with us had a seizure while queueing for his blood test and no one helped. The Expertise staff member came back half hour later and told the teacher to finish his medical even though he was lying on the floor, white and we told her he'd just had a seizure.

Is it Expertise Education fault for him fainting? - The contract should have stated there would be a medical test, you must have been so blind not to even read the contract before signing. EXCUSES

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4) Expertise Office: No one here communicates with each other. We were given so much conflicting information. Told we had to start at a school only to go there and find someone else in the office had given the job to another teacher. Told to go to an interview at a school and then changing the location again, and again, and again. Asked why we weren't at an interview when someone else had called from the office saying it was somewhere else... etc.

As I remember, you're taken to demo class in groups of 2-3 - or 1 if you're lucky. They're actually a close knit staff-base. Your job to confirm with them... again, EXCUSES

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5) Free Mandarin classes? It would have taken us nearly two hours to get to the expertise office for our mandarin class.

You must have been around Bagou in Haidian, so what for 2 hours? They are free classes, brought in an actual mandarin teacher to teach you Chinese which would have stopped all your excuses for leaving and allowed you to actually survive in China. 2 hours...... It's your fault for accepting a position far away from the office then. You must have been out of Beijing, 2 hours on a subway takes you to far out of Beijing. ..... MORE EXCUSEE

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6) There were no other teachers living in the area we were placed. We were completely alienated.

alienated how? which kindergarten did you work at? How can not living with "other teachers" make you alienated by them? This is your fault for not learning Chinese (or enduring the subway.. which I still cant believe was 2 hours. MORE EXCUSES

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7) When we went to the Expertise office to discuss our issues we were told we had no other option and no choice.

There's nothing to stop you asking for a change of school around the new year start. EXCUSES GALORE

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8) When I was Ill from school one day and called the office to let them know they sent someone who banged on the door continuously until I answered it and told me I should be in school and I would loose my job if I didn't go. Also tried to get my passport to keep in the office. DO NOT give them your passport.

You almost got me on this one, you WILL lose your job if you don't go. Calling in sick is no problem. EXCUSES - Haha @ the passport taking. You're just painting them to be unethical.

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9) The visa they get you to come into the country on is illegal to work on. We were told we would have our working visa after training which never happened. We had been there for nearly 3 months when we left and still no sign of getting us our legal working visa as promised. Also, we NEVER got paid in the time we were there because of a huge list of ridiculous reasons.

I got paid each time, even earlier if the 15th fell on a weekend. EXCUSES AND LIES

"on is illegal to work on" You shouldn't have even qualified to be an English teacher - Don't ever come back to China, liars and uneducated people like you are NOT TOLERATED OR WANTED

Nuff said.