Workplace reviews and discussion: 地球村出版有限公司

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I was deceived during the interview process and ended up working as a supervisor managing a group of foreign troublemakers. Because the salary offered was too low to hire real teachers, they hired white people who could merely speak English—even if they only had community college degrees—and came to Taiwan to make easy money.

They were extremely irresponsible. They would often say they needed to take leave just one hour before class, and then stop answering their phones. This position also required calling each of these white teachers every day, one by one, to confirm whether they had gone to class, because the branch receptionists could not speak English. Whenever a teacher failed to show up for even one class, the customer service phone would be flooded with calls, and the boss’s wife would call you into her office and make you stand there while she berated you for an hour.

The documents for applying for a work visa should supposedly be rewritten every year, but the boss would tell you to simply change the date on the previous year’s application and submit it. Doesn’t that count as document forgery?!