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Re: Pre-franchise experiment
By:Former English@ Teacher
Date: 9 September 2015
In Response To: Re: Pre-franchise experiment (English@Shenzhen)

So you got replacement teachers, but demanded I stay for two additional months as per a contract that was given to us five months after we started working for you, which we never signed? And Vicky didn't show up on our doorstep begging Andy to stay until the end of the summer? We left, so did Eric... but you sent letters to parents saying that you decided to let Andy go and that Eric broke his leg because poor you - you didn't have any teachers to cover classes at your "center" (which, by the way, is a "fish bowl" - it's merely a glass room with a blackboard and a homemade wooden table in the center of the room). You don't own a real English center. Stop trying to pawn that mess of a language center off on people.

I am happy to see that you still haven't managed to break 100 students and you've been in business for what? Four? Five years? That speaks volumes of your ability to teach and run a legitimate English center. I did read somewhere (possibly on this site), you boasting about how you offer people less money now - and how those people are older and more reliable. I don't think reliable is the word you're actually looking for. What that roughly translates into is: "we are only able to attract and hire 55 year old sexpats who will take whatever they can get because they are too old to work at real language centers where proper working visas/residence permits are available to them, so we exploit them."

I see that you still have people working for you illegally. Poor Alexander can't get proper visas for his stellar employees at his "legitimate" business.






Messages In This Thread

Pre-franchise experiment -- English@Shenzhen -- 3 September 2015
Re: Pre-franchise experiment -- alexander -- 10 September 2015
Re: Pre-franchise experiment -- Former English@ Teacher -- 20 September 2015
Re: Pre-franchise experiment -- Former English@ Teacher -- 6 September 2015
Re: Pre-franchise experiment -- English@Shenzhen -- 7 September 2015
Re: Pre-franchise experiment -- Former English@ Teacher -- 9 September 2015
Re: Pre-franchise experiment -- Former English@ Teacher -- 9 September 2015
Go to another board -