Our school fucked us over. Big time.
On the last day of our contract, Brandon, Josh, Nelly and I were owed 21,833 RMB each ($3,235. each!!!!) for our last month’s salary, flight reimbursement, bonus (which we fully qualified for according to our contracts) and deposits. Long story short, our boss decided to just pay us for our last month’s salary and screw us over on the rest.
We’re all still in shock about the whole situation. We were promised this money, we have contracts, but our boss didn’t care. I think in total, we spent about 11 hours arguing with our boss over the phone – through his 21 yr old son and our boss’s 25 yr old girlfriend, May (our boss is like 50 and married to a different slut!) – because he was SITTING OUTSIDE the school in his van refusing to face any of us. Yeah, I’m serious, what a FREAK! I’ve never in my life encountered such unprofessional, rude, heartless people in my life. GOD! If that whore May laughed in our faces one more time, Nelly and I were going to shove her 4 inch glittered heel through her skull!! AHHH!!!
God, it was such a mess and SO PAINFUL. The blatant lying from our boss was endless. At one point in the 11-hour negotiations, our Boss was seeming more amiable and told us that if we taught a couple more classes for free (our contracts were over but the semester wasn’t), he’d give us our full bonuses (5,000RMB/$740.USD each). Of course we immediately agreed and our boss’s son shook Brandon’s hand and promised (PROMISED!!) that we’d get that money. Guess what happened. I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE THAT WE LET CHINESE PEOPLE PLAY US LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!
Their reason for not paying us? They had so many excuses but the first that they tried was that we were “bad teachers.” Brandon and I luckily saved ALL of the reviews that each of our students filled out. Averaging all of our scores, Brandon was at 98% and I had a 97% along with hundreds of great comments from the kids. Then, we had ten months worth reviews from our managers which averaged 95%. We showed all of these to our boss’s son (who reported to his Dad who was sitting out in the f’ing van) and he just said that our students/managers were just being polite (mind you, our boss or his son had never seen us teach). So, we asked the boss’s son to sit-in on our classes (teaching students for FREE by the way). Of course, we taught the best classes we’ve EVER taught and did a PERFECT job. Our boss’s son couldn’t deny it, he said we were great teachers so then he moved on to a different reason for not paying us.
“The school gave you free housing for the past ten months – you owe us money!” WTF?! It says in our contracts that we’re to receive free housing and utilities! Since when does ANY teacher in China have to pay for housing? Well, after several other tries, this is the excuse they settled on. We argued and argued but there was nothing we could do. Chinese people don’t respond to logic (or contracts) and they correctly pointed out to us that if we try contacting the police, they’ll just need to pay them off with 200 rmb ($29.00).
Oh my god. The four of us need therapy. Do you know what arguing over money we’ve already earned with lying, manipulating, ass-hole Chinese people will do to a person after 11 hours?! All four of us are still having violent dreams about torturing and murdering our boss, his two sons (one of which is only five) and that whore-girlfriend.
This whole experience has for sure been one of the worst experiences of my life. We told all of our Australian/British friends in China what happened and they all said something close to “duh!!” Apparently it’s rare to not get screwed on your last paycheck from a Chinese school and that most people expect it and even factor it into their budgets. I guess it’s our own faults for not seeing this coming. Fuck you Chinese people. You win. I give up.
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