Hi all. I am the original poster of the warning against ENLI. Just a quick response to the information posted by "Balanced View of Enli". I don't know who you are so I cannot say if we know each other or not. What I can say is that you are mistaken in who you think posted the warning/complaint. My name is Adam Hopes. I have never been to DongBei or Liaoning. Furthermore, I have been teaching in China for over 5 yrs and have never been involved in any fights or altercations with the police. I am not a troublemaker, in fact, there have been several times where I probably should have posted a warning about previous and potential employers and have just let it go. My warning was actually quite reserved. I have heard many incidents of ENLI utilizing their uncle's power as head of Tianjin PSB to really screw people. These involved false allegations, cancelling of visas, etc. but I chose not to include this information as to me, it is hearsay. I feel I did give a balanced report on ENLI that was not fuelled by emotions but merely stated SOME of the more important facts related to my employment experience with them. I can add 2 more important facts that I refrained from mentioning previously. I was having breakfast with Shawn O [edited] (owner of ENLI) and we just talking about the business. I was curious because I was entertaining the idea of opening a language school myself in the future. We were discussing income and risk. I told him I think it would be better just to tutor and arrange tutoring for other teachers with less initiative. He then got a look in his eyes and told me. "IF ANY OF MY TEACHERS DO PRIVATE TUTORRING AND I FIND OUT I WILL CANCEL THEIR VISA WITHOUT NOTIFYING THEM" Now this is a very malicious act which will at the minimum have you detained at the PSB until you can pay the penalty of 500RMB per day for overstaying your visa. Moreover, you would likely be deported and never allowed to enter China again which puts an end to your ESL career in China. Now the 2nd malicious act I know for a fact too. A colleague who had completed his contract and was offered renewal of that contract but declined was refused his letter of release and reference letter by ENLI. They were involved in a dispute over the airfare allowance. Shawn had verbally offered an allowance of 3000RMB for a 6 mth contract but did not amend the contract accordingly. This guy told me himself he had said some unfriendly things to Shawn. He had a nice job lined up but had to leave China due to the fact that ENLI would not give him the required documents to transfer his visa. He is back in China now and teaching but this was an expensive inconvenience and absolutely a malicious act by ENLI. Now back to what you said about suspecting you had previously employed the original poster of this warning. It is my opinion that if you are unfortunate enough to employ a troublemaker you pay them what you owe and fire them. If an employee is giving you constant headaches you still must pay him his salary as agreed. If he has broken contract you are well within your rights to dismiss him or her. I am not offended or angered by your response in any way at all. On the contrary, I commend you for taking the time to try and improve the industry. I just felt the need to clarify your incorrect suspicion. Simple logic will tell you, by the length of time it took me to respond to this thread. Posting complaints is not a hobby or interest of mine. This case was just so severe I felt a moral obligation to inform the wise. On behalf of all teachers I sincerely thank you for your invaluable input. People such as yourself have prevented so much anguish to innocent teachers. I am not ashamed to hide my face. Everything I have stated is true. Feel free to contact me at adis356@hotmail.com Adam Hopes