So there is a very obvious trend on this website. A thread will get started in one of two ways. The first one is a person interviewing at a potential school will ask for some general advice on the school. Within hours the regulars will come down hard on that school for its existence or if they are lucky someone who worked there will reply. Whatever happens, the main posters will hi-jack the forum and the person who posted the original message does not know what to make of "Happy Go Lucky English Training Center" or recruiter "da sha bi". The other way these threads get started is a disgruntled employee justified in their grievances or just a 22 year old idiot pissed off because he had to actually work at his job, will take revenge on the school posting about its many wrongful practices. Some of which are true, some are exaggerated, and some are just huge lies. However, the thinking of the disgruntled teacher at the time is "a ha， I have won, once the internet finds out all the horrible things my boss did they will never recruit another teacher again".

This seems to be a goal. Let's destroy these businesses. I want to discuss the results of shaming a school online and how it affected that school. Clearly EF is still growing and so are many of the other favourite schools we crap all over on this website. Perhaps new schools that are struggling to get off the ground get a devastating blow when we warn the unsuspecting 21 year old not to go there.

I worked at a school which has been mentioned on this website quite a bit. It is still thriving today and has no trouble recruiting teachers. I will so the post negatively affected the profits of the boss and positively affected anyone willing to look passed the negative posts online and try the job out for themselves. The monthly salary went up by 3,000 RMB a month because it was hard to recruit people at the original salary. However, pay them enough and no amount of eslteachersboard garbage will scare them off. Also the apartments which were not that bad to begin with were completely refurnished. It was a nice slap in the face to the boss of that school to remind him to appreciate his teachers. Those of us at the school at the time were very thankful of the guy who slammed our school which prevented them from hiring teachers for about 6 weeks. Once they made the offer more sweet people couldn't give two s**** a piss about what past teachers thought. Anyways long email I don't feel like editing lets discuss this. SB is welcome to join this forum, just no grumbling. I want to hear peoples thoughts on affecting schools not whether education should be a business or not. We all know your views. Keep it tame or take it elsewhere.