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[AaronFisher]

[b]OMEGA LANGUAGE INSTITUTE � SHANGHAI[/b]

I wouldn�t recommend you work at Omega.

I was at Omega for almost a year and left two months ago. At that time it was a shambles. Recently they have refused to pay �12 month service� bonuses. I�m not sure of the ins-and-outs but, currently, business is very bad and I thing the purse strings are being pulled VERY tight.

The location (Qingpu) is a long way from central Shanghai (45-60 mins depending on traffic). There is nothing to see/do in Qingpu itself. The school has a bus service which, while I was there, was not reliable and the 60-70 yuan cost for taxi�s was annoying.

You will be lucky if you still have job in 3-6 months. While I was there they were already making noises about closing down everything except the profitable kindergarten.

They also talk about a swimming pool, table tennis, snooker, etc, on their website. These used to be free to staff and students. Now Omega no longer owns these facilities themselves, they make you pay for it!

The two, Taiwanese, managing directors have the charisma, business acumen and personal skills of a dead squid. They, for the duration of my time there, treated people badly (particularly the Chinese staff) and created a real atmosphere of �them and us�. There was and is little motivation amongst the foreign teachers to do a good job for a couple of bozos who treat them with utter disrespect.

[b]KEEP AWAY![/b]

Hope this helps.

If in doubt, ask to speak with some current foreign teachers who work there (although there are not many left, I am told. � Even the DOS has now quit!!)