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I was tricked into joining nearly 15 years ago. At first, they wouldn’t give you a fixed schedule; they would just ask you to substitute for classes—for example, when a foreign teacher got drunk and couldn’t come to work, or when another teacher skipped work and they needed someone to cover. I lived in Guishan, yet for no apparent reason they even asked me to substitute for classes in Pingzhen. The hourly wage for English teachers was among the lowest in the industry, around 330. Also, for the first few months of work, I didn’t actually receive the full amount I had earned. When I asked why, they said they had withheld part of my wages as a deposit, which they would return only after I completed a full year. That was clearly illegal. Nearly a year later, I still had only two classes, and I wasn’t allowed to take on teaching work elsewhere. Was I supposed to starve? I kept arguing with management until they finally agreed to let me resign. I asked a teacher who joined later, and she said they had switched to having teachers sign promissory notes. What kind of terrible company uses contracts and promissory notes to bind teachers? Now they have also changed to using only full-time teachers, even saving money on teaching staff. If I had the chance to do it again, I absolutely would not work at this cram school again.