In response to Re Being drunk while teaching (Concerned Teacher)

Actually, you did say it was acceptable. You said if he turned up drunk, showering and eating breath mints would allow him.to take the class. It wouldn't. Being intoxicated is never acceptable whilst in charge of students. You can blame the system, but that's just a way to avoid personal responsibility. Anyone turning up drunk to work should be fired immediately. You have a responsibility to your students and if you can't be responsible, you shouldn't be teaching. Integrity is something you either posess or you don't. It's not something you leavening the runway at Heathrow as you fly to China.

What an FT does in their own free time however is up to them. I will still do things my own way

As I've said, repeatedly, I couldn't care less what anyone does in their free time. The only time I care is when that impacts their ability to do their job, in the case of turning up drunk/hungover, or not turning up to teach a class because you're sleeping it off somewhere. That is not your free time.

When I wasn't working the next day, you could usually find me hanging out with my friends at Pass By in Taizhou or in Transformers or Friends bar in Dalian. But if I was working the next day I wouldn't be out drinking the night before, it's irresponsible and unprofessional. I wouldn't do the.minimum for my classes either. I had a class in Dalian that I used to spend hours of my free time finding, downloading, printing and setting English reading books for. Another class I used to film acting out thier created role-plays and in the evening I would edit together movies for them to keep as records of their work. Another class I introduced vocabulary books that I made myself and added to myself each week for them. This is why I know you are an inferior teacher to me, my priority is educating and inspiring my students. Yours is doing the bare minimum for an easy life. Teachers like you who go to China to abuse a corrupt system are a major part of the problem and I will never, ever see you as anything other than a parasite.