Strange that I have only come across a one or two teachers who have been "scammed, fleeced, ripped-off" by training companies, and this in fairly minor ways.

Yes that's actually so strange it amounts to this: You are very inexperienced with Chinese training centers/Foreign teaching and/or very naive, ignorant, live in a bubble or... you are a liar or 'bullshitter' who's making up things on the internet.

If I find a group of 10 ESL teachers with any experience (1 year or more say) 9 of them have been scammed, fleeced, ripped-off, cheated, gamed, shortchanged.

3 of them very very badly. As in just outright robbed of 10,000+ rmb.

The one who hasn't been cheated, fooled, scammed is lucky and often knows it full well. They will admit being just damn lucky and well aware of the 9 others being robbed, scammed and cheated.

for you to write that plucky little snippy "Strange that I have only come across a one or two" is the instant sign of a bullshitter who is actually so stupid they think they should try and bluff like that to experienced and real ESL teachers (or those who have done it).

Again, if you sincerely don't understand that MOST training centers cheat, steal, scam, fleece, skim and rob ESL teachers then you absolutely need to understand you are a naive and unaware type of person or you are one of the very few lucky ones and your experience is rare.

But don't worry, just keep working for training centers and in a short time you will be [edited] badly. especially you because of your foolish reasoning skills and social retardation.

It's sad but this is very common behaviour; training centres often don't like to recruit the best teachers. In fact, they'll often prefer to recruit teachers who they feel are weak and vulnerable, easy to exploit, be that because they are young and inexperienced or old and in a bad financial position, or whatever else the reasons could be.

For example, many bad schools are afraid of American teachers; they tend to be rather direct and willing to make a stand when they feel that something isn't right. It disrupts their 'harmony of Chinese culture' (Such bullshit statements are often said to make people feel guilty about complaining).

Some teachers are scared of what could happen to them and they aren't willing to fight... You've just got to ask yourself what kind of people they really are. You'll meet a lot of foreign losers in China these days... China has the most ESL jobs available, but it's no longer considered to be the place to go.

Its being a victim of criminal activity when the average foreign teacher is scammed, fleeced, ripped-off by the many training centers or private schools like EASYTALK or the the others mentioned here.

It become 'supporting criminal activity' when the foreign teachers (or local teachers) accept it and continue working for them. Or for that matter a kind of sin of omission by not warning others.

You know who i think is the worst in this? You see these foreign teachers that can't look new foreign teachers in the eye, wont talk to them, avoid them and shuffle off with their head down a little. Why? Because they were cheated by that training center and told to accept it and keep working or they'd get even less. Told not to say anything 'or else'. They conceded, got 'owned' and in effect have agreed to co-conspire with the criminals.

Those foreigners are the lowest, the worst, they could have helped by not just quitting but by shaming the school owners, notifying everyone of the cheaters and at the very least coming to sites like this to help warn other foreigners.

Instead they are... well as he said, in every realistic sense supporting criminal activity.