Not surprising in the least! No sense of honor or "what's right" among these bosses. When my fellow teacher and I gave our thirty days' notice, we always had to straddle that line of all-out commitment to leaving so that Mr Li would pay the last bit of salary (where payday was a couple days before our 30 days were up, instead of "the day after" like he attempted to sneakily swindle). Why is it that these Chinese training center bosses are incapable of any long-term thinking? It's always "how can I grab a little money right this instant instead of potentially getting better business later on by not establishing a reputation as a swindler?"...

It was a common thing there where the Chinese teachers wouldn't get paid for months on end, and often would just be working and working in hopes that they would get their paycheck one day. People like Mr Li, and training centers like Liuzhou New Standard, think they can have everything they want in perpetuity as long as they've got their fat fingers around it. They don't realize that things like giving 30 days notice before leaving is to help a company peacefully transition to new employees -- not to get a free month of work and thus encourage workers to quit with no warning on payday.

I guess as long as there are more foreign teachers available to be roped in, and these training centers have government connections, they'll always be able to stick around...