Workplace reviews and discussion: 私立百博文理短期補習班

Pays salaries on time, and you get to play and grow with the children.

Supervisors from other departments meddle in everything all day long. They pretend to be busy when there is nothing to do, but actually still have time to chat, joke around, and eat. As soon as you sit down, you get criticized mercilessly.

It is best to pretend to be busy at work. As long as a supervisor sees you sitting down, not moving around, not answering the phone, or not replying to her, she can berate you relentlessly, saying that you have a bad attitude, low efficiency, and cannot do anything right. If you tell them what your dreams are, they will even mock you all day long.

Each mentor has to be responsible for at least two or three classes. You can barely handle the matters of one class, yet you normally have to communicate with parents and write parent-contact forms every month. Each class has at least 20–70 students, so there are so many things to write that it feels endless. If you spend all day writing, you will not have time to do anything else. You have to check assignments, sign communication books, handle card-based check-ins, take class notes, manage the children’s emotions, and take full responsibility if their grades decline. You also have to be mentally prepared to be scolded by parents. If children take too many days off, the supervisor will scold you too. If you want to tutor students, you have to come up with many reasons to persuade the supervisor to approve overtime tutoring; otherwise, you can only watch helplessly as students’ grades decline and they drop out, after which the boss or supervisor will berate you mercilessly again. Basically, meetings are only opportunities to get scolded. They ask random questions about anything and everything, and if you cannot answer, you get scolded again.

All they think about is recruiting more students, without taking care of quality. If a trial student or an existing student does not pay, you had better be prepared to get scolded. These are clearly the responsibility of the telemarketing team, yet teachers are made to handle these miscellaneous tasks. Basically, going to work every day is painful. You never know what mistake you will be blamed for, or which teacher will suddenly be absent, leaving you to hold the entire class together.

If a supervisor sees you leaving after work, they will make sarcastic remarks such as, “Oh~ leaving already?”

The schedule will not be changed no matter what, and no overtime pay will be provided. Am I staying behind to volunteer?

The supervisors spend all day occupying their positions without doing their jobs. They only pretend to be busy when the boss is around; otherwise, they just fiddle around here and there, pretending to have something to do while actually looking for something to use against you.

Although it feels like a large cram school, its internal systems are still inadequate, and one person has to take on several different jobs. That would be bad enough, but if you are responsible for upper-grade students, you have to stay until around 11 p.m., get home at midnight, and have no holidays because you are expected to endure the hardships together with the upper-grade students!

This line of work requires the attitude of an indestructible cockroach, inexhaustible enthusiasm, and a silver tongue capable of dealing with supervisors. You also have to be very good at slacking off, so you can thrive in this industry.