Quality training, environment and materials - But not worth the exhaustion - English Instructor English 1 Employee Review

In a word, exhaustion. You will be worked to exhaustion here. Your weekdays may have one or two classes, and then your weekends will be filled with up to 6 real hours, plus whatever marketing events like demos or craft classes they may wish to add on top of that. If you are unlucky, as I and my coworkers are, during winter and summer sessions, you may work up to two weeks without a single day off. After your holiday, you'll come back to the same awful scheduling. To add insult to injury, you will still be required to work mandatory office hours during that time, and you will not be paid any overtime. These winter and summer sessions may add up to 4 extra real classroom hours to your schedule each day you are scheduled to teach them. Moreover, you will continue to have your normally scheduled classes for that day. EF is a large company, and so they follow corporate procedures strictly and, at times, lacking human consideration. If you are going to be late, you must have XYZ and contact Mr/Ms ABC using their specified method -- or else. If you are going to be sick, you must have a doctor's note. Can't go? Have someone from the company visit you because you cannot be trusted independently. The excuse? Teachers abuse their days off. But that reasoning is hard to accept when you don't even have half a week's sick leave. In fact, I've seen many teachers come to work ill or vomiting because of the danger to their pay. Pay is too low for this position. The low end of the starting salary that EF advertises is typically the salary that EF will provide, be you fresh out of university or experienced. In Tier 1 cities in China, you may find that the competing training centre offers inexperienced teachers the same salary that EF provides its Senior Teachers (who have even more burden than other teachers!). To be honest, although I appreciate how much I've been able to improve, I sincerely regret coming here and I have already secured a position elsewhere.