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upchuckles · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 111

Anyone wanna share good or bad experiences that they may have had with this training center in Jiangsu? I'm not too excited about their contract at all and will certainly take a pass.. 6000 Rmb for 25 periods.. +8 office hours per week.. However *ZAP* minus 1000 for probation.. *ZAP* .. from clause.. salary includes bonus.. apartment utils.. bla.. bla.. BONUS! So they take out 2000 RMB each month as a bonus and promise to pay it if the teacher bahaves and follow contract.. What a miserable contract! take home each month is 3000 RMB and they want to make the teacher pay a deposit for the apartment..

Do folks actually end up taking jobs like that!?

Thanks!

KidfromBrooklyn · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: Substandard Contracts

If the contract is as you state, and I believe that it is, the answer to your question is no.

Teachers that I know would never take a contract like that.

As I have mentioned many times before, we as teachers are professionals. The Chinese government issues us a booklet called "FOREIGN EXPERT CERTIFICATE." Every contract I have ever read states that we should respect the laws, decrees, and people of China

Yet when the opportunity presents itself, Chinese disrespect us as teachers and individuals by offering such an obvious slap in the face. (note use of the word face). By doing so apparently these schools do not see us as the accredited "experts", hiring us to teach our native tongue, and therefore, in the end, show us that it is they, that have no respect for themselves their government and the laws and decrees of China.

I rest my case.

Brian Caulfield · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 1247 Location: China

What do you do if they don't pay you that 24,000 rmb at the end ? Man this is China . Chinese don't do things unless they have to . No Chinese would ever take an offer like this , so why should you ?