Dave J is a liar. He has never met me, never come to the unfortunate center during my stay there, and then he hasn't listened to my distress call on which he rudely hung up. Prior to his fine phone conversational techniques, he disencouraged me from going to the local Foreign Affairs or any other institution to complain. Having a chance to speak with my actual employer, the owner, I just wanted to settle my last month's salary that Owens management wanted to cut in half, although Dave J thought (and still thinks) was an inappropriate request. Most importantly, Dave J knows little about the GAC-ACT headquarters, their accademic products and teaching at any GAC center, and he only has served the Owens company as a "foreign recruiter" for the unfortunate GAC center in Chongqing. Dave J brags on that Owens company has got 60 teachers, but he conveniently forgets to mention that the "rounded number" includes many local teachers as well as part-time foreign teachers in. These few foreign teacher of Owens have been called to work at the unfortunate GAC in Chongqing, although none wanted to take the job as they knew how filthy the snobish center's manager was. Dave keeps on bragging how he manages all 60 of them, but he factually does not have that power at all because he only serves as a middle man puppet to the few Owens Foreign Language School foreign staff members there, except the GAC center where he has virtually no authority at all. Dave J mostly teaches little kids and that's what he is best at aside lying. Little kids can easily be corrupt by funny games and a candy. Dave's poor approach suggests he neither has never managed anything else than what he is managing nor he has taught a more serious academic course in his life.

Dave J would like all readers on to believe that I am not to be trusted and that I am a questionable character that may not know how to negotiate an employment contract or that may not know how to do his job. His reasons to lie are fairly obvious as he serves to protect (his job). His reasons to come on this forums are quite clear too. This dishonest man is to be avoided at all costs.

From what I have seen at Owens headquarters in Jiang Bei, at their center in Jie Fang Bei and at the GAC-ACT Chongqing that is also owned by the same company, I can only say that there are more liars than just this puppet that I have talked above here and that's why this company either in Chongqing or anywhere else on mainland should be avoided. Just imagine you decide to leave on a one month pro notice because they are poorly managed and after your manager signed your reasoning and the resignation letter, he/she will want to cut your last month's salary and then provides you with only negative "Foreign Experts Termination Letter" where he/she will lie about your performance and reasons for leaving. Yes, my manager has lied right in this official document, but she offered me another more positive one, if I agreed to cancel my work permit sponsored by school although paid by me.

To set the facts straight on how or why I accepted that unfortunate position, I did not apply for it and Dave J was to play absolutely no role (no authority) in my contractual agreement there. In March 2009, my former GAC manager, that I had worked with for about three years, offered me the GAC Chongqing position then. It was about a month before my 4th year contractual agreement was to end at another GAC center and as she called me I decided to follow this fine local lady that I had worked with before. She wanted me to fill in that Chongqing position because the center was in a mess and because she was a Marketing Manager there. Yes, I assume she depended on some commision out of the center's sales, but as I knew her from before she also cared about and respected her foreign employees and the students too. I agreed as she was also an assistant to the GAC Center Manager. The truth is that I wanted to leave as soon as I arrived in the GAC Chongqing and that because I saw a gross mismanagement of the center that could not have been fixed and that my job would've been affected even if I had the support from my Marketing Manager there. After my second day and before I signed the ridiculous employment agreement there, I packed and wanted to leave (my family was not with me yet), although I stayed on being begged by both, the Marketing Manager and her superior the Center Manager, in a nearby restaurant. The Center Manager cried and lied in my eyes about a number of things then. The two even spoke to my wife, in another province at that time, on the phone that I should stay there and that my family could follow to Chongqing. Most importantly on record, the Center Manager and her Assistant Manager knew why I wanted to leave (so tears were reasonable) and I knew why they wanted me there. THE JOB WAS TO BE DONE AS THE CENTER WAS IN A MESS. I liked the academic goals of the GAC product and I still do. I got paid peanuts beofe or then and I didn't care so much. Therefore, any trash talk from Dave J on this topic is just to mislead the readers.

Finally, I ended up putting my own money and effort into this, as I paid for intitial rental deposit 5,000, health check and work permit over a thousand and flight tickets for me and my family to and from the unfortunate destination and as I worked as hard as I could there. Not only the Marketing Manager/Assitant Manager and the Center Manager of GAC Chongqing but also the GAC headquarters know that I am good at what I do as they all observed my classes and had only good things to say about me. Even the Chongqing GAC students had a hard time making any complaints about me at first and most of their official feedback was more positive than negative, although they uniformly changed their minds as I pushed them to do their jobs and as I resigned because they didn't. The Center Manager did not want me to speak with their parents and they were afraid I would.
By the way Dave, my pic was on the 2009 GAC annual calendar for mainland. Where's your pic Dave J??? How does the GAC headquarters know you? What do you really know about the GACs? Do you teach it to your early learners at Jie Fang Bei?

To all, please be careful choosing your future employments on mainland as well as be careful leaving your current jobs you have on mainland. You may think your current job is dreadfull, but your next one may prove to be much worse than the current one.

Cheers and beers to our sixth sense