Quite a catharsis around here. Almost reads like an AA session for abused teachers.

My two cents ... or is it yen now?

Victim of this Yang 2013-2014. I also signed a one year contract. I lasted 8 of the 10 months. The foreign teachers came and went at a rate of about 1 a month, sometimes 2 a month. Everything written herein true.

My own story as follows. So winter terms arrives ... Yang is short of teachers. He asks me to cover something like 36 classes. I agreed because I was paying back student loans. I do these classes at a rate of sometimes 9 classes per days,form 7:45 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

And then the criticism from Yang starts : I am not paying enough time to my lessons, I am not submitting lesson plans with variety, the Chinese co-teacher says that by the end of the day I lack dynamism, I am following the book too closely, I am not following the book enough, I am too quiet in the office, I hold myself back from mixing with the teachers (I am so tired that I can't stand up) and on and on and on.

So I tell this Yang that it is not Harvard University and that he is lucky that he has any teachers at all, the way he treats us. And Yang lets loose with a volley of cusswords, abusive slang, filthy words and general bad temper. By the end of it, he is screaming at the top of his lungs. I just listen.

When he is finished, I leave the school. I go to a travel agent and buy one train ticket to Beijing and a plane ticket to Tokyo, both for the next morning and then afternoon. That evening, I pull a runner but not before having had the time to trash the apartment (I hate to say it but I did it). I spend the night in a hotel.

Next afternoon, upon arrival at Narita Airport Tokyo, I call him from an overseas phone booth. I tell him that I have him real sushi for dinner and it is a sham that he couldn't join me.

The slob curses again (I suspect he was drunk) and then like with the others, he hung up the phone.

Prior to his school, I had been in China almost 11 years, very peacefully with a lot of renewed contracts.

He needs a psychiatrist in my opinion and he definitely needs to join AA.