I was very happy working for them for 2 months. The first month I had to beg them to pay me... the 2nd month, they deducted 1000 RMB out of my paycheck for being late. I told them that I would accept a punishment, but not that much, they did not care, they would not let me quit. They owe me 2400 RMB. I was dealing with SELINA a US Citizen, that was not helpful at all.. and with EMMA, at the HaiDian district.
They threat me to turn me into the government, and they were very abusive, almost to the point where they take you for a stupid person, and they do what ever they want with you....
There is no point in talking with them, they would do what ever they want to take advantage of you.
No matter how nice you are, how you try to explain things, they will take advantage of you...
It's sad... because I really liked my classes, and my students, but really, they think they can do what ever they want.. even that US teacher called Selena, who is totally confabullated with the Chinese management of ABC. Sad but true....She also takes advantage of US people...

No it is not a good school. They withhold pay for instantly made up reasons. They insist that genuinely ill teachers teach even when they have been to a hospital and the doctors have told the teachers not to go near students. I worked for them for a year and when my contract expired they refused to give me my last months salary and they refused to give me the 40% of my first months salary that they had withheld for some unknown reason. I was getting ready to move and had been out for the day. When I came home they had changed the lock on my apartment and taken all my things to the train station to be secured there until I paid some invented charges which I had no money to pay so I lost so many of my belongings including all my personal papers and my degree and many other things. Stay away and run away from these people as fast as you can.

I could not agree more. Continued happiness!

I know this post is not totally recent, but I gotta ask you about this...

are you serious????
were they giving you a room or something?
they took your stuff to the train station?

I am a pretty laid back, understanding person,
but i woulda gone bonkers if they did some sh$t like that...

I did an interview with them a couple of years ago... wow... I really made the right decision staying away!

The school doesn't carry a good reputation.

I, as one of the staff in ABC Foreign Language school, have worked in ABC for over 2 years. As i know, we of course cannot punish anybody without any reasons. The one who said he had been deduced 1000 for being late, was late for so many times or even didn't come to class without telling ABC in advance, which had given a bad consequence to the students and the school. Even he quarelled with the students in class.We of course cannot employ a teacher without punctuality or politeness.The one said his apartment had been locked after his coming back, which is totally ridiculous. He lived in the ABC's apartment for totally free within one month after his contract had been expired. Plus, he refused to extend his contract with ABC,but he still sticked to live in ABC's apartment. How ridiculous! So ABC has no other choice but to ask for help from the police to change the lock. Then, we Chinese teachers took him by taxi to the railway station. We had done all what we can. :!:

Ridiculous.

Can you explain why the textbooks you give students are written poorly with many grammatical, factual and spelling errors?

I'll just stop at this one point, because it's blatantly true.

The school is a joke, anyone who says any different is being paid to do so.

Jenny and Johnny???

Oh, please.

Could this be the American on staff???

What say you, admin, were these posted from the same address???

Er??? South Africans speak Afrikans!?

One stayed for a year and got screwed then.

Others got screwed in the first one or two months.

I don't really have to call you to find out you know little about the language spoken in South Africa do I?

You know ... when we see 3 new ID's suddenly appear on this site and they all have one post on them and they are all supporting the same place, you REALLY have to wonder why 3 foreigners suddenly found That's Beijing ... especially after you have all been here for so many years.

Can you tell us that???

We have people on here that have garnered our respect over the months that they have posted here and they are currently employed in other locations and are successful.

Why should we believe this obvious campaign to elevate your school to something acceptable?

There is one thing that most Chinese management doesn't realize when they treat their teachers like sh!t: it comes back to haunt you.

If you want people to leave their countries and come to work with you and they are not from the third world, then you treat them as adults and with respect.

It is often not the teachers at fault in these cases. It is the school themselves thinking that the teachers are going to be as pliable as Chinese employees.

Unfortunately, there are a glut of Chinese here and they must accept what they get as far as scheister employers and a-holes that do not pay on time etc.

We, on the other hand are in demand and rare. (The good ones)

You are now obviously finding out just HOW rare now that you are having staffing problems.

All of us have at least one school like yours in our past and we waste no time telling others our tales.

There is corroboration here from three people explaining the same tales and we tend to believe multiple posts from different posters.

We do however also take great joy in seeing that it is damaging your business so much that you have chosen to create three 'users' to tell your side of the story.

Now f*** Off!!!

Hey,

I got a bit anxious after having read through this thread. I'm currently living in Sweden with my other foot in China. I'm certified teacher with some working experience in Sweden. I don't want to move to the other side of the globe only to get screwed up by some unserious b.s. school.

Is there any list or similar where problematic schools are listed?

Well, it's kind of reality though, but just for short term.

They will pay their price for being a sh*t school, actually, they are paying right now. All of the good teachers are staying away from this ABC school....

I know a lot of schools in China. ABC school is definitly the worst one I never saw.

ABC School S*ck

that makes him a real actor. serious tho, he is very talented.

i had one interview at ABC one or two year ago, didnt get the response, guess back then my english sucks to death. they had a good decoration, at the lobby there was an artificial waterfall wall.