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[prof]

Anyone working here?

I've heard that they set up shop in 2005 and work as the first real "dispatch" company in China.

With a Swedish boss working with some local Chinese, they send teachers to International schools around the city...with the teachers earning 1/10 the salary and even less of the benefits of the former foreign EFL teachers.

I'd be interested in getting more information, especially from teachers working there now.

[prof]

No replies? Too bad.

I thought at least the lanky Swedish boss, with the Chinese girlfriend showing him how to navigate the roads, who can barely speak English or the Chinese waidiren who wear the navy blue suits with the nice clean white socks would reply.

Or at least ONE teacher who is earning $500/month and tuned into to the China EFL scene on Davescafe who are working in place of the former teachers who were earning $3000 with benefits and being part of the 'team' rather than the 'eflers' who now come in and are told to be avoided by the full time non-EFL teachers.

Is this the future in China? EFL scabs who don't read the EFL boards who get farmed out, treated with no respect, and make peanuts.

[prof]

So word is that the three teachers being farmed out are a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a Quebecer.

Ah, the future of EFL? Why pay a decent wage...where the non-EFL teachers make 30,000-70,000 RMB/month on 3 year deals with full benefits when you can get an EFL teacher farmed in for 3,000/month ($400) and no benefits.

And to the Frenchman....the students are unhappy with your latest lesson...spending 45 minutes counting trees on a photocopied printout.

But I guess they get what they pay for.

Keep up the good work! You are even undercutting the unqualified Native speakers, Holy Maplesyrup!

[prof]

Come on guys!

The parents arent' paying any tuition so they arent' "that" concerned but gossip is going around.

There's not one native English speaker teaching the EFL classes at several MAJOR international schools in Pudong as they have "farmed out" the work to the cheapest bidder: that being oh so EASY English Training Center.

Even "major" schools...filled with cheap unqualified EFL teachers that the Moms are already chatting about...


Could you dress as Bozo the Clowns to make things more lively???? Or at least show some pride in your nationalities as Easy English sells you as being from one of the "Big 5." Show some pride.

[Trumpcard]

hmmmm, just look at what outsourcing has done to the Japanese market. Will this be China's reality in 10 years?