I would like to dissect this post somewhat,if i may, as it all seems rather implausible to me.

yes the apartment in question did have cocrotches but it just need a good clean which he could have done. peter also claimed that the pay was paid out on the 10 of every month which is true but like all companies here in england its also the same, maybe not the 10 but in the first week of the new month

Aside from your chinglish, your posting here, at this time, is highly suspect. You expect a newly arrived FT to give a good clean of an apartment and put up with "cocrotches" after travelling many miles to get there? As for the pay, I am not sure of that, but an FT's flat should definitely be clean.

i can however tell you that its not at all what it seem to be. Birmy does make certain promises that it fails to keep and i have been at the brunt of it, its just good that i was strong headed and i got what i was promised.

Right. So you stood up for yourself and got what you wanted. But it should not be that way, they should keep their promises from the outset. These TC's are a disgrace to teaching.

Birmy as a company is very homophobic so if your gay stay away because they wont really like you.

Expected from a developing country and a society that has no discrimination laws. But birmy is not a country, they should be professional and responsible. Another reason to avoid this place!

yeah sure like all chinese they are nice to your face but stab you in the back when your not fully looking.

Of course, thats China 101. But as a filipino/fellow asian, I guess you'd know this better than a naive newbie westerner?

they always say to you that the teachers shouldn't have a relationship with their students but they are all at it. every single member of staff was having an affair with there students.

Hypocrisy, I expect nothing less. What is good for the goose is good for the gander, 6 of 1 and a half dozen of the other.

I can also tell you that Birmy International English is not actually International as you would like as they also can be very racist to asian people. again feeling the brunt of this one too. as i wasn't allowed to teach a class to the public because they dont want the public to know they have asian teachers working for them as quoted by the now CD of a particular branch. dont get me wrong i was happy, i didn't want to teach that class, coming to the end of my year i was fed up of birmy that i totally couldn't be bothered with it all.

It's good that you got to see the reality of their racist ways. The question is will you now do some good, and help to shut down this cowboy racist outfit, or just put your savings and bonus in the bank and choose to look the other way? All it takes for evil to prosper and all that jazz?!

other then that i have to say birmy is actually a nice school if it wasn't for those two particular incidents

I wouldn't call a school that discriminates in such a way "nice". Difference of opinion.

i wouldn't have minded staying another year or two, as the place i was placed in was really small and you could walk around the whole town in just 30 mins, it was my home and always will be. i made great friends and friends i would now call apart of my family.

Glad you made some friends, but that town is not a great place, believe me as I know, and you are better off out of working for them.