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EVERT LOUW writes:

I am writing under my own name without any fear.many foreign teachers have suffered under the hands of this woman,she should not be allowed to do any recruiting of any staff anywhere.she uses two contracts,one for the government to allow her to claim certain grants which should go to the te teachers,but never get to them,and another which she presents to the teacher.she also recruits under several names,but for communication purposes she invariably reverts to her Chengdu address,so keep a good lookout. Shirley 11:39:55
Dear Sean and to whom it may concern at the Linshui Experimental School Linshui Middle School

The reasons for me not coming back is not the school's fault but the fault of Sunny's English Club.

I will explain as follows:

1. We have had to pay our own flight tickets, although the standard Chinese contract for Foreign teachers stipulates that we should be paid a return ticket (round trip) for every year worked, +- 7000rmb per teacher per contract.
2. We should be paid a travel allowance for every term worked, 1 200rmb per teacher per term .
3. Although not compulsory but there should have been an allowance for medical expenses, 1000rmb per teacher per term.
4. Evert, was also done out of a lot of money - a whole salary for the month of June 2011, 4000rmb.
5. He had to finance all the repairs of his house in Huaying, ie. water, gas, air conditioning etc. and his own internet connection. He even had to use his own computer, printer, paper and inks. He also had to buy all his own teaching materials for his teaching. This amounts to more than 2000rmb
6. Evert too did not receive his travel allowances nor medical, 1000rmb.
7.During summer and winter holidays we were not paid any salaries,and no extra classes were arranged by them during those holidays as promised by Sunnys English Clubs in Chengdu.
If we complained about any of this they would shout and become very rude towards us. That is why we became rude towards them.
8.We were never placed together at a school or in the same city as promised by Sunny,which caused a lot of extra expense and travelling.

If you look carefully at this you will see that in total this amounts to quite a lot of money and neither of us can afford to lose more money. They have developed an attitude that we owe the our time and knowledge.

The leaders of the schools usually pay over these monies to the agents as stipulated by the Chinese government and Education Bureau. So, you may understand us by wondering what happened to this monies.

We have been offered very good contracts by several other governments in other countries offering us double the salary and all expenses paid. We are now seriously considering these offers. Financially the last 18 months for and last year for Evert, ruined us.

We both lodged complaints with the South African Embassy and to the appropriate recruiting agents for foreign teachers.

I trust that you would be able to convey this email to the leaders of the school and I regret that I will not be returning to Sichuan.

I wish you all the best of luck for the new school year.
These complaints are not levelled at our individual schools,but at Sunnys English Clubs in Chengdu.Many other foreign teachers have experienced simillar problems at the hands of Sunnys.
Our schools,STUDENTS and co-teachers were good to us,AND WE WILL MISS THEM.


Yours,

Shirley Ann Davies

Shirley 11:55:26
亲爱的Sean和人可能关心邻水实验学校邻水中学

我不回来的原因是不是学校的过错，而是阳光的英语俱乐部的过错。

我会解释如下：

1。我们不得不付出我们自己的机票，虽然中国外籍教师的合同规定的标准，我们应该为每年支付回程机票（往返）工作+ - 7000元每合同教师。
2。我们应该支付旅费津贴为每学期工作，1每位教师每学期200元。
3。虽然不是强制性的，但已支付医疗费，每位教师每学期1000元津贴。
4。埃弗特，也做了很多钱 - 为整个的2011年6月，4000RMB月的工资。
5。他融资，即华英他家所有的维修。水，气，空调等，以及他自己的互联网连接。他甚至用自己的电脑，打印机，纸张和油墨。他还买自己的教材，他的教学。这超过2000元
6。埃弗特太没有收到他的车船津贴，也没有医疗，1000元。
7.During夏季和冬季假期，我们并没有支付任何薪金，并没有额外的类，在这些假期安排他们Sunnys英语俱乐部在成都承诺。
如果我们对任何抱怨，他们会喊，并成为对我们非常粗暴。这就是为什么我们对他们无礼。
8。我们从来没有被放置在学校或在同一城市的阳光，这引起了很多额外的费用和旅行承诺。

如果你仔细看看这个，你会看到，总金额了不少钱，我们既不可以承受失去更多的钱。他们已经开发出一种态度，我们欠了我们的时间和知识。

通常学校的领导人对中国政府和教育局的规定，这些代理商的款项支付。所以，你可以了解我们不知道发生了什么事，这款项。

我们已经提供很好的合同，其他几个政府在其他国家为我们提供双倍的工资和支付所有费用。我们现在正在认真考虑这些提议。财政上过去18个月和埃弗特去年，毁了我们。

我们都向南非大使馆和适当的外籍教师招聘代理人的投诉。

我相信，你将能够传达此电子邮件到学校的领导和我很遗憾，我不会回到四川。

我祝你好运新学年。
这些投诉是在我们的个别学校不平整，但在Sunnys英语俱乐部在成都。经历过许多其他的外籍教师手中Sunnys simillar问题。
我们的学校，学生和教师对我们好，我们会想念他们。


你，

雪莉安戴维斯
Date:2011/08/30



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From: sean19832003 ([email protected])
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:45:56 AM
To: shirley ([email protected])


Dear Shirley,
I have past in your email about why you cant be back to Mr.Gong.
He said thank you for your hard working for our school in the name of all teachers and leaders. You prepare carefully and fully for each lesson and you test them, typed scores onto computer of 1400 students. So I make sure all of us love you and will miss you.Though we are in long distance but we are still friends.Do hope you and Evert will go well and be happy every day.
yours,
Sean,Gong,Wang and all the teachers and students in Linshui.

[wangdaning]

[evertlouw]

stating facts you *beep*

[evertlouw]

And not all written by me,please wake up.

[evertlouw]

e mail ,between english and chinese.not the correct grammar etc,but the truth.

[wangdaning]

Posting an email and a response gives the outsider very little knowledge of what actually happened. Attacking a person because they cannot patch together what happened is also unnecessary. I have the feeling you are frustrated and angry, the email was written in haste as well as the messages here. Take some time to calm down an try to explain what happened.


Really not trying to pick a fight with you.

[dean_a_jones]

I think this is just a "warning" post.

The gist of it is the main email in proper English:

[Miajiayou]

I'm confused. Part of the initial post and replies seem like they were made not only by someone who is not a native speaker, but by a Chinese person. The mistakes in punctuation and spacing are very telling.

Maybe a Chinese employee has some issues with this organization and has taken it upon him/herself to share it with us? If so, that is pretty awesome.

The body of the e-mail does seem legit, and I (very unfortunately) wonder if the poor treatment was due to the teachers being from South Africa.

[evertlouw]

I am Evert Louw ,this is my real name,i do not need to hide.Let this serve as a warning to anybody planning to work for this organisation called Sunnys English Clubs in Chengdu .We spent six years in China teaching various disciplines.We also spent two years in South Korea and several years in Germany,France ,[email protected] Italy and Mexico.Anybody who wishes to communicate with me is welcome to do so at:[email protected].

[Miajiayou]

Hi Evert! Why don't you have spaces after your punctuation?

[evertlouw]

It is about the facts not the spaces.

[evertlouw]

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[7969]

Sunny's? Isnt that the place that hires people with no degree, no tefl, and is known to never get the paperwork for the Z visa? And then screws people over?

[choudoufu]

what exactly is the complaint?

you talk about the pay in a 'standard' contract. what standard
contract would that be? what was in your contract?

'should' be paid a travel allowance? is that in your contract or in
some 'standard' contract?

there 'should' have been an allowance for medical? but you also
say it's not compulsory. how 'bout your contract?

and those paid holidays....'promised.' is that also in your contract?

you complained to the south african embassy??????

[Miajiayou]