I just came back from a "contract" with this school, and the school made it quite obvious how little respect they have for wasting your time and money. I showed up and right away felt sick with respiratory problems that I concluded where an allergic reaction to air pollution. I advised the school that I was not well but able and ready to teach and that I wanted to see how my "allergy" would go. Despite having been invited to China at great cost and inconvenience to myself the school immediately terminated me, even if I was able to teach!

A few days later I realized that I had started a cold and would be ok. I advised the school but I was told that since the school had drawn up a schedule without me they would not change it back.

Be aware that of you go to teach in China you are open and ready for being abused! Neusoft is a large company with schools and offices though China, so I took the following steps:

1 - I sent a complaint email to the recruitment address for the whole company;
2 - I send a complaint email to the Bureau of Foreign Experts which is supposed to make sure that "foreign experts" are properly treated and not subject to abuse.

I have yet to hear from either one, so don't expect to have any recourse if this school screws you over!

At the same time, I found the people that I was dealing with on a daily basis really helpful (Karen and Julie Myer and Javen). The problem seems to be at the management level where the attitude is that having teachers on staff is a necessary evil that should only be tolerated. I also had the impression that the school managers could not deal with slight problems without hysterical panicking and making rash and stupid decisions. In my case the school could just have let things go for a few days and the minor problem would have gone away. Instead the school felt the "urgent" need to terminate me and assign my classes to other teachers. The obvious result was that the school started the semester short-staffed and teachers with excess work.

Sorry, but in North America these people couldn't qualify to manage a shoe-shine stand. While I was there I noticed that every computer I looked at had a pirated version of Microsoft Windows, and when I asked Nanhai Neusoft claimed that in China you can't purchase a legit version! I also noticed that Neusoft claims to be a Microsoft partner at the same time that it is ripping-off Microsoft. I wanted to connect my laptop computer to the school's network, but I was told that I should have up-to-date anti-virus software because the school couldn't even keep their own network secure!