Good day to whatever individual is currently reading my personal account of working for Dr. J at Greenhill. You are probably like me – in wonder of this guy who loves the Chinese people because of this two decades of study of Chinese literature and poetry, but yet who has absolutely no reservations about reprobating people who, foreign or local , are there to take advantage of his deep investors’ purses. And before you read this, no matter who you are, do you have a degree from Harvard in classical Chinese like Dr. J or are you some schmuck or putz, sorry, I’m Jewish-heritage, to come here to try out China for the experience?

By the way, I’m typing this out on a keyboard and I’m sober; I’m not going to add a bunch of Chinese ESL teacher bs about not being able to to type out because of the medium or, frankly, J[edited] [edted] I’m drunk or stoned.

And if you, as an ESL fill-in don’t like my using your real name in this posting, well, sorry; we’re all here in China trying to make a difference. Make trouble for me all you want, as you have our Dr. J, who picked up up … taught you Chinese .. . and who got you started here … respect, brother, respect.

You might not think it matters to you because you can find a barfly girlfriend or maybe you might enroll in classes to translate China for you; however, for others, like my Dr. J, he paid his price and he did his share and he knows all your personal information (part of application process) but still didn’t lift a finger against you … he knows where Sean is in Yunlin … he’s a mensch and would never Welsh on his bets, no matter what you say. … You know me. You know you can write all this bullshit about Dr. J and he won’t do anything because he loves you, as he does me and the rest of the world. He is our modern-day Jesus-figure who forgives people and who tries to give them a new chance.

Please allow me to point some things out immediately before I say my piece. First off, I am no longer an employee at Greenhill, due to my own shortcomings at the time, so I do not have anything to gain from this commentary whatsoever. I came to Dr. J and Greenhill from another Asian country (Korea) and like you, that you like to omit, I was coddled to the point of embarrassment and yes, I maybe might have worked on Christmas, but, you know what, brother, we’re in Asia now. It’s just like asking for teacher’s day off when you’re gainfully employed anywhere in the British Commonwealth, including the USA. We come to Asia to experience Asia, not to expect that it’s the same Asia as our grandmother/father’s world.

Second, you can refer to me as RZ and I have given Dr. J permission to personally give my Skype account information to anyone considering working for Greenhill or taking the previous, ridiculous slander of his company seriously. Third … I want to point out that I am not here to slander the previous posters or call them liars, as I only know one of them and I refuse to stoop to the level of humanity that they have reduced themselves to. I understand this was your first time to leave the Kingdom and, yes, it might have caused you some discomfort, and yes, I know that you have a degree in computer forensics, which means that you know to manipulate the WEB to make your postings come up first everywhere. Good for you! … Now, get over it.

You guys probably couldn’t make it in your own country … and I’m sorry for that … but don't dis the master due to your own weaknesses. It’s just weird; you might need some time for reflection to understand this, but this is the truth!

This man and this company are emotionally important to me and my life and it is my correct, undisputable, and factual opinion that the previous posters are either; misguided, hurt for some reason, misinformed, or simply lacking moral capacity … .so I guess this post is not opinion after all. So, without further ado, let my story begin:

When I was left I was still high and dry and jobless and looking for a solution to my life in Korea, a man you all know of as Dr. J contacted me with a three-page, personal e-mail, describing his company, his positive ambition, and information about his company. We began to talk on the phone and through e-mail and shortly after, he said to me:

“I’m going to a take a chance to hire you and get you the visa you need to come over here (which I eventually prepared and submitted legal documentation for). The man trusted me; he loved me from the start, even telling me about the love of his life, Partricia. At the time, I was debating taking a university job in Korea and could have easily walked away from this offer; leaving him at a loss … but despite the advice of others, I trusted him and felt that I knew him before I even left for China.

When I arrived in Shanghai with my cat, a very kind Greenhill woman met me at the airport and started to carry my bags away. I began to panic, as it was my understanding that I needed to find my own way and transportation to Wuxi. After the joke was up, the woman handed me a phone and Dr. J was there to greet me, saying: “Surprise! I bet you didn’t expect an escort!” Dr. J and the woman got me safely to Wuxi, where I began to wonder: “Is my promise of a high-rise, skyline view, 2-bedroom apartment really going to happen?”

It did. In fact, the apartment was so expensive that they paid double the promised housing allowance for it, which I eventually paid back even though they would have never pressured me to do so. I learned over the next few days that Dr. J was exactly as I saw in the Youku video (in your crazy “You’ve Been Greenhilled Youku Dr. J … videos you intend to dis the master, but rather I just see a professional American aside a wanna-be-star Europengyou … who carries you the entire way … politely and masterfully as Dr. J always does …

Frankly, when I see you beside the Master, all I see is someone who wants to shine like we all did, but you cut out and cut into the bottle (everyone knows that Dr. J doesn’t drink, and at bars he arrives beforehand asking for grape juice with soda … it takes a while to learn Dr. J’s method) before Dr. J could train you, but that’s not your fault. Just leave it at that. Three million viewers will differ from you; if you don’t like him, well, that’s your own beef … just keep the free English lessons coming!

Some of which include me: aka ‘brother from a different mother’ and others). Here was a man that most people couldn’t understand; Dr. J is an artist like only Harvard can produce: Simplicity and complexity on the same vin. People were afraid of his positivity so much that they started to create methods in their minds to avoid the fact that he simply was a guy who cared so much for his employees and lost sleep over it every night.

In fact, as we grew closer, people would confront him with situations, questions, even asking for 9000 yuan loans because a certain employee smashed a phone in a bar (you or another hater’s comments … we don’t have time for splitting hairs) … people took J’s lack of immediate response as a lack of caring or hiding. People didn’t see him nearly in tears in his office trying to decide what answer to give and how to avoid hurting anyone.

Shortly after things became settled, I met an employee who I’ll refer to as ‘Jaybles,’ for all you fans out there of people who create fake accounts to support their own post (since it is his post that started everything – and if you don’t know China then you’re all accept everything as true … but China is a place where competition runs as thick as blood everywhere … and where foreigners are often given sweet bonuses to dis their Western friends/employers are schmucks for a beer or a hundred or two … this is China … cut-throat

. This was a guy, you Jable, who did not pay back his loans. You were there, although Dr. J studpidly loved you, as a a guy who who showed potential Dr. J was willing to pay for but who was unlike any teacher that I had seen in my career, which has been more than 6 years abroad. This guy was told not to come to China until the visa issue was sorted out. Instead, he showed up in Hong Kong, got trashed, missed his flight, and asked Dr. J to pay for it. Instead, Dr. J literally gave him the clothes off of his back, gave him a guitar at 1200Rrmb, and asked for nothing in return other than some good work. What did sir Jaybles do?

You had never been Asia-screwed but you were more like your well-meaning progeny who has turned half the globe into your debt; yes, we didn’t want this and that but yes when we were weren’t cogent with the crown’s wisheses, al be it, it it often seemed like the Queen of Amsterdam’s wishes, we were just stagnant, worthless yankee trash who were either serving the CIA or the Rothschilds, whichever your buzz led you to …

Well, I did not know him well, but I do know that I wound up teaching several of his classes as he was standing out in the hallway gossiping and not giving a crap about his job. I do know that he took a week off from work without saying anything and did not get fired for it. I remember you saying that “Dr. J respects the Eventually, the emotional stress he caused the company caused an unfortunate series of messages to be sent Crown and doesn’t dare differ …”

that I am sure you have read about. This is humanity. People have emotions. I am not sure that Jaybles did. The guy took off with the guitar, clothes, money, and has done nothing but create problems for a man he does not even know well. Any prospective employer should be more afraid of Jaybles than an employee should be afraid of Dr. j.

During my time at Greenhill, I never had less than 2 days off per week, always in a row; they offer two days a week in a row had holidays that were recognized. Promises of promotion were lived up to as I became a branch manager, as well as everyone else who has stayed (there are many employees at Greenhill who have been there for years………..and for one particular great woman, more than 13 years).

I never got paid late. Even when I quit, I got my money. I was allowed to stay in my apartment for nearly 2 months after leaving the company because they didn’t want to see me have a hard time. Dr. J even gave me money out of his own pocket to help me get back on track and never asked for me to pay it back when I moved to Shanghai……….which, by the way, was a move facilitated by Dr. J, who asked an employee to drive me to my new home. My time at Greenhill was a time to remember for the rest of my life and I hope that someday, I can work side-by-side with this great man again. He trusts his employees and sometimes crosses the boss-barrier. He laughs in the face of obstacles and smiles, saying ‘we’re getting there.’ He does not let the stresses of his work affect others. I remember only one incident where he asked people to work overtime for an emergency…….which was strictly VOLUNTARY! How do I know this?..... Everyone who was currently employed at the time (even mothers) volunteered to stay and “I” was the one who left to go have fun. I never received any negative feelings from him for it. Instead, throughout my time there, I got free haircuts, hats, and some clothing just because he thought it looked good on me and might look good at the school. These gifts had NO hidden intentions and neither does the man. His curriculum is the work of many years of university, including a degree from Harvard, and this doctor of a man knows more languages than I can count. He even likes to visit IKEA to read the Swedish books which he actually understands. He does invite his employees out for fun at times but has never asked for anything in return. Those nights out were some of the best I have ever had and talking about them at a nice, laid-back work environment where I made music, never taught more than 25 classes in a week, and where I could feel secure was just as great. Apparently some people do not like teaching one class and having 8 office hours. I guess those people are just to idiotic to consider the point that the school was having trouble getting students in the Dong-Ting branch that year and that they were assigning those full hours to certain teachers to justify paying 100% full salary to them without breaking contract. Seriously people, stop complaining about jobs where you work LESS than your contract stipulates!
When the time came for me to leave and address my health concerns, Dr. J was extremely cooperative, as well as his wonderful manager Eleanor. They helped me with release letters (which I still have copies of), good recommendations to my new employer (which I can show a business card for), and smooth transition of my FOREIGN EXPERT CERTIFICATE. I do not know what the seriously-troubled posters before me were thinking at all. Perhaps it was their own delusional reality that convinced them to change the actual reality of a situation. No one is ‘trapped’ at Greenhill. If you think you are trapped; that is your own fault for being paranoid. They DO provide absolutely legal visas and FEC’s, which truly aided me in finding my new job. Their housing is always top notch. They truly, honestly, care about every student that walks through that door and their way of doing things, as unique as it may be in China, is the best that I have ever had the privilege to witness at a private English-teaching company (which also happens to teach may other languages as well). People don't EVER get yelled at. People do NOT get kicked out of their houses unfairly. People DO get legal visas. The contracts are FAIR and ABIDED BY. In fact, most of the times, teaching hours are less than the contract states and employees who do stupid things are usually just handled in the friendliest manner possible. This man, his wife, and their manager do their ABSOLUTE BEST for people. They are human, so do not expect them to be perfect.
Listen to me and listen to me carefully: The people who are out to slander Dr. J and his company are people that I, personally, cannot consider human. Humanity is about compassion, understanding, and love for your brothers and sisters, which Greenhill gave me and everyone around me. Even Jaybles, who has so unfairly attempted to hurt Greenhill was treated with love. His countless violations, lack of professionalism, and behavioral nonsense was forgiven over and over again for more than a month before he was let go and Dr. J was actually in TEARS over the situation………so do not hold it against the guy for having a drink and using a foul word in a text message that was accidentally sent to the wrong person! If someone stole the clothes off of my back, insulted my students and my dignity, and took my care for granted, I would be angry too and THAT IS FINAL! All I know is that to this day, Dr. J and the Greenhill family remain close to me even though I do not currently work with them. They have always taken care of me and if I could go back in time, I would not change a thing. When I get married next year, I want Dr. J to stand next to me on the stage because he has done more for me than even my father has in the last six years and THAT IS FINAL. Anyone who says otherwise, really needs to look within themselves and realize that they either have problems within themselves, or some serious trust issues……..and THAT IS FINAL. As for my buddy Jaybles, the guy who forced my hand to stand up for these wonderful people; I cannot blame his actions, for it was his first job. However, after seeing the way he has attacked this compassionate company without dignity………..any prospective employer of his should realize that his first employment should have been his FINAL. I was ‘Greenhilled.’ I hope that I always remain Greenhilled. Good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight.