In response to Re: Re Beware Qiongzhou University in Sanya, Hainan Island, China (bob's other brother)

Just to clarify a few things written by my colleagues...

No...my husband never wanted to work fulltime. The original plan was for him not to work at all at QU -- but then the school called right before the meeting and asked if he could. He agreed to part-time, not fulltime (we had no Nanny for our child), but there was a miscommunication (mostly my fault), and he got scheduled for full-time, and then that all had to be adjusted at the meeting.

Yes, he did get overpaid for November and December (and I got underpaid for October) -- we immediately contacted the school in October (by phone), and then again in November (when he got over-paid the first time -- by email that time, I have a copy of it). Now, you would think that all they needed to do was to see what the accountant deposited into each person's account, and then straighten it up, but the same thing happened in December (my husband got overpaid, at least one of the other teachers got underpaid; my salary was correct, though).

I then sent the school a chart of all the payments we had received from September through to December, pointing out areas where I had not received the full salary, where reimbursements had not been made, and also where my husband had been overpaid. This could have been easily verified by the accountant, but that didn't seem to occur to the FAO department. They asked for copies of our bank statements, which we supplied. (it took a little while to figure out how to do that)

Victoria came up with the plan of having salaries for all foreign teachers deposited into her personal bank account and then remitting it to the teachers. She might have been well-meaning in the beginning, and she may have gotten the salaries right for some of the teachers, but she never paid me my full January salary. Even when I showed her the chart of all monies received, along with my bank statement, she refused to pay. Thus I began to suspect she was pocketing the money (or was very bad with Math). My suspicions were confirmed in early March, when she refused to pay the full month's housing allowance -- we moved out of the wood factory on March 2, because we lived for one and a half days at the wood factory, she said that she would only pay 2/3 of the housing allowance for the apartment in Sanya. (We would have been able to move by the end of February if she'd paid the February salary on time). This was not a case of bad Math -- it was a clear case of cheating!