Draconian Micro Management. Like being back at school. - Teacher VIPX Employee Review

The main problems with this company are that they lied to teachers during the recruitment and on-boarding process. -We were promised the world and given the scraps. We were told that students would study with use every week and we would be paid for every single slot of the semester once a student books us. In reality, the students would often be allowed to cancel even 10 minutes before class- the teacher does not receive compensation except the $5 per hour standby fee which is pitiful once spread out across a 40 minute slot. -We were promised that any slots not filled by regular students would be open for parents to book trial classes. This was a complete lie- repeated and contradicted multiple times by admins and team leaders. In fact, should you lose any students due to scheduling conflict/ student dissatisfaction with the course, you will never have any opportunity to fill that slot. And you can't take your business elsewhere because you have gaps all over your schedule that aren't easy to fill with other companies. - the admins and team leaders will invest a bizarre amount of time searching for reasons to complain about you and make you feel undervalued, the minute you raise any complaint, concerns or simply ask too many difficult questions that expose blatant lies . To the extent of watching months of recorded classes in the hope of finding one slight error in appearance, lighting or not quite peppy enough in class (we all have those days). - minor mistakes in pay are ignored with convoluted excuses that always end with a 'we are right, you are wrong' attitude despite providing evidence. - they find ways to make the semester bonus confusing and contradictory by refusing to provide the names of the students for which the bonus has been paid. So we can't keep track of anything or query any discrepancy. - You are required to sign in 10 minutes before the start of shift but they are too cheap to pay for that time. Pro rata at $5 per hour is hardly a steep expense. And team leaders actually go out of their way to send memos informing us that we can not sign out even 30 seconds early. -compulsory monthly/twice monthly meetings so team leaders and admins who have no professional capacity to advise on teaching practice can instead lecture us about sales and share pointless statistics. -When recruited we were told that we would teach 4 levels of class which would give some variation to our working week. We were instead assigned two levels so you essentially teach the same two classes for a week, in a three week cycle that repeats the same story with different vocabulary/ different comprehension questions. Imagine teaching the same lesson for three weeks, minimum 15 hours a week and ask yourself if you can maintain your sanity and still be excited about the little seed that grows into a flower after your 25th class about it!!! -these are NOT ESL lessons, it is purely reading comprehension and poorly constructed reading comprehension with mistakes in every single class. - They actually go out of their way to make things more difficult for teachers. Instead of simply reading a memo they decided that we should have to log into a separate learning management system to complete a course about that memo. One which included a single inane question that could be answered with common sense. - they sent a memo informing females that they were required to tie their hair up in class because a single female was spotted twirling her hair in class. So the company blankets the entire female community of teachers as being unable to resist twirling their hair (I guess the long haired or bearded men folk don't suffer from this feminine inadequacy!). In fact this is a common theme with the company. A single teacher does something wrong but instead of communicating directly they send a passive aggressive memo that leaves you wondering if you were the offending teacher. Quite childish. - they have been known to fire people when they resign but they expect 30 days notice from you, so if you plan to leave you better line up that new job before telling them because the loyalty that you give them does not extend both ways. hmmm - worst pay in the industry- worse pay than teaching adults