Workplace reviews and discussion: 康橋外語中心_私立康橋英日語會話短期補習班

The work is simple, but you also don’t learn much.

No performance pressure.

1. The actual duties and work content do not match the position advertised.

2. It is a family-run business. The tutoring center director and the aunt who handles study-abroad consulting have old-fashioned views stuck in the last century and are very emotional. Whenever they are unhappy, they yell at someone, and they often stage breakup showdowns in the office, loudly arguing in front of employees and students without regard for them.

3. “Rotating days off”: There are neither two-day weekends nor eight days off per month. Everyone takes turns having days off, which means that new employees never get to take time off.

4. Because the director and the consulting advisor do not understand how to use computers and do not trust 3C products, all information is required to be handwritten for future reference.

5. An internal meeting is held once a month. Even if you are off that day or working the evening shift, you must attend. During the mandatory meeting, everyone must provide one idea for improving operations. Before each monthly meeting, you must hand-copy a set of employee rules and submit it before the meeting. The content includes employee work regulations and the tutoring center’s management philosophy.

6. Even when there is nothing else to do, you may be required to continually hand-copy the employee rules (an entire thick folder of them) and help fold promotional flyers.

7. Employees are required not to clock out and leave on time, creating the illusion that everyone is busy and works late.

8. Employees are required to observe a strict hierarchy based on age and seniority. If the consulting advisor or accountant needs to use the restroom, you are expected to yield to the elders. If you enter the restroom first, they will forcefully turn the doorknob to urge you to hurry, making you feel extremely uncomfortable and disrespected.

9. The consulting advisor may think highly of herself because she is knowledgeable, and she often takes turns asking employees which schools they graduated from and what English proficiency test scores they received, then mocks them and makes personal attacks to express her disdain. (For example: “You dare to say a score like that out loud? Aren’t you afraid of embarrassing your school and your family? Is everyone who graduates from your school at this level? What can people who graduate from your school actually do? Given your education and experience, why should we pay you a salary? You have made no contribution to the tutoring center and have no value to us; your existence is simply a waste of social resources.”)

10. The evening-shift colleagues are extremely gossipy and scheming, and do not train new employees. Whenever someone is going to be yelled at or blamed, they push the responsibility and mistakes onto the newcomers. They are unfriendly, and their character and professionalism are poor. It is a very uncomfortable work environment and atmosphere.

11. They hope to hire highly educated, capable all-round employees for low wages. I wish the company luck in finding them soon.