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[Aidoue]

I want to warn all teachers in Taiwan against the adult English school, Richmond International English Institute in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
All seems extremely professional when you first walk in and start working there, but let me tell you, it's only a smoke screen.
They lie about:
*The amount of teaching hours you'll get, as promised in their ad on Tealit and in the interview.
*Teaching mainly adults, (you teach a lot of children)
*Hourly pay regarding one on one's
*Student complaints (they make false claims)

They call you 'in' almost every 2nd night (after 9pm), to criticize you on petty issues, for example: "You don't stand enough in class", "Chinese children find it traumatizing when you rip paper".

They sometimes have a list of up to 6 students (adults and children) who apparently complained about you in one day. But after careful investigation,
you find out, it's either entirely made up or absolutely blown out of proportion. They break down your character in every possible way they can. Even made some teachers write letters of self-criticism after watching a Chinese 'teacher' give a demo.

Threatening is part of the 'highly professional working environment', so get used to that once you start. Your ARC and NT15 000 deposit will be held like a dangling carrot in front of a donkey.

I was fired on Saturday, and given 7 days notice (and 5.5 working hours for the next week). Also, if I told any of my students I'm leaving, my deposit will be held back.
My ARC was immediately canceled, please note, this is in the middle of the semester, in the middle of the month, not an abundance of full time jobs floating around in Taoyuan.

The reason for letting me go: 'you don't fit in' - even though my adult classes became so packed, some evenings there weren't enough seating for everyone.

There's a TV commercial of Richmond on Youtube with me in it, I was never asked to be video taped, and most definitely not paid for it.

Can anyone please give some advice on how to expose or deal with this school?