The fate of foreign teachers who are unfortunate enough to end up in the shark network of this company is one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is how they treat their Chinese staff. I have talked with some of them and was given somewhat really shocking information:

- To save money, this company gives their Chinese full-time staff so-called "internship" contracts to avoid paying the social benefits for them like health insurance and other things. That means they act against Chinese law on purpose if that information is true.
- In an expensive city like Hangzhou, some of them only earn 2000 Yuan a month which had not been paid for months.
- These people are sitting in the company office and work for Helen from 8.00 a.m. till 6 p.m. and are compensated for their hard and honest work with almost nothing!
- Many of them are looking for other jobs, it is incredible what this company is doing and how they treat and exploit people shamelessly!

Another thing:

Helen has the direct contact with the schools and makes all the business deals with them. Her bait-and-switch tactics does not work out successfully in all cases; and so it can happen that a new teacher who has just arrived from abroad will have to wait one month or more until he/she can get a job. On what is that person living then meanwhile when he/she has no work because Helen was not successful in her deals? This is how they've messed up job opportunities for several people!

Have a simple guess: If they get 10,000 Yuan a month from the school for a foreign teacher, and a foreign teacher gets around 4500 Yuan, how much is ending up in their private pockets? The calculation is very simple.

There are several Chinese people in middle management positions of this company, all of them speaking English fluently and intelligent enough to know what they are doing and the cheat they help accomplish on the back of foreign teachers and the rest of the Chinese staff who are as much the victims of these ruthless practices as the foreign teachers. These people are as guilty as the owners who allow all this to happen!

If you ask me - they are not only highly unprofessional but also cheats and liars, no decent person should ever work for them and help them make other teachers running into their trap!

For those already in the trap - get out of there as soon as you can!