It makes no difference if you teach at a coprerate school or a franchise school the Aston system of schools are run by Chinese head masters. managers etc. They are allowed to run the school any way that they wish to as long as their methods make Aston's parent company in Dalian money! The foreign managers or DOS's or what ever other name that you wish to call them are not tried to be a manager, most have no experince as a manager of any sort they are mostly mushrooms that are allowed to use the name manager. These foreign managers for the most part back the Chinese head masters/managers. Once and a while you will have a person who will stand up for the foreign teachers and their rights as listed in their contracts.

This is not to say that you will have a terrible time at all Aston schools but be expected every once and a while to have your schedule changed, to go and do one of the terrible public English corners at McD's, KFC or some friends fast food joint. Be prepared to be ordered at the last minute that you have to do promo work which will consist of handing out flyers on some street corner and to preform like a trained seal to entertain a few primary school students, to trick them into this is proper teaching! Aston is not alone in usinf these techniques on their teachers. EF, Kids Castle, Shane schools all do this.

Be prepared for anything!