It sounds like Shane the company is crap in general, I worked for Shane school Ningbo. I suppose at least we all had Z visas and weren't working illegally, but the other complaints are pretty much the same, being mislead by the holiday stipulation in the contract; while the rest of your friends at other schools are on holiday you are stuck at Shane teaching classes of a couple of kids cause all the other students went on holiday themselves. The management was so incompetent, constantly trying to get teachers to do activities well beyond the perimeters of their job title, there were arguments on a weekly basis, which creates so much stress you just don't even feel like going to work. All I wanted to do was come to school teach and enjoy my classes ( cause the kids are great ) and go home but instead I was treated like a child, constantly made to feel like I was in trouble.

I could go on for days about the problems at that school, in short I can draw only one conclusion from all the reviews I have read about Shane Schools across China and that is AVOID THEM! There seems to be no standard or any kind of support from the so called head office.

I am currently working for a university in China and it is a huge step up, working for Shane was a terrible decision, I almost left China to go home. Some friends talked me into apply for a University job, I am glad I stayed here and tried lecturing life, its so much better.