Teaching related, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

You are getting the run around and you made a good decision to stand firm and state that you won't work until you are paid.  As for me, I was offered a part-time teaching job at APU international school. The offering was for $20. an hour and 3-4 blocks of consequtive classes in the morning.  On the first day of work, they said it would only be $17. and just two classes, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon.  So I said fine, and I hereby give 3 weeks notice!  (The poor students; they have had 4 teachers since last August and will have another one after me.  The adm. doesn't care. duane

Thanks Duane. Yeah, I've sent them an email yesterday and till today - still no response :-( sucks.

Seems like they they are going to cheat you! Better stop work until get paid or just continue for some experience and search for another place! Good luck!

This is very typical behavior of many Vietnamese-run companies/schools. My wife and I lost our best friends here (moved away) because they didn't want to put up with this kind of thing.

I've worked for one Vietnamese company myself and the same thing happened to me. I DID get paid eventually, but only after "showing my a$$" in their corporate office. After that, I vowed never to work for another Vietnamese company, and I don't now.

There appears to be a big difference in living here and getting along with the general population (which I love and enjoy) and working for a local company (which I'll never do again).

saigonmonkey wrote:

This is very typical behavior of many Vietnamese-run companies/schools. My wife and I lost our best friends here (moved away) because they didn't want to put up with this kind of thing.

I've worked for one Vietnamese company myself and the same thing happened to me. I DID get paid eventually, but only after "showing my a$$" in their corporate office. After that, I vowed never to work for another Vietnamese company, and I don't now.

There appears to be a big difference in living here and getting along with the general population (which I love and enjoy) and working for a local company (which I'll never do again).

Sorry for hijacking your thread, I'm just curious, those of you that worked at smaller schools and had bad experience. How did you find out which places were hiring, and did you do any research before committing yourself to work there? Just seems like mistreatment of foreign teachers can't do that much good to the business as everyone will be telling each other to avoid the school, no?

Yes, I'm vietnamese. Recently I've been thinking about opening a small language center myself, but not in downtown. Of course the business would be fair to all students, parents, and teachers, because i want everyone to have good experience. But since it will be small and not centrally located, i have to think about whether it can attract the right people and how. That's why i was curious about how you ended up where you are.

Looks like some of the schools mentioned here don't get punished for their business ethics since they can just cycle through people fresh off the plane.