My Schools, and Their Schools

Before I get this post started, I need to explain a bit about Kid Castle. Kid Castle is a chain company of private schools that specialize in teaching English. There are more than ten of these schools in Xi'an, and even more in the rest of China, Taiwan, and possibly other countries. Like some china companies, some of them can be privately owned. My head bosses, Sara, Micheal, and Eric are all from Taiwan, and together they own somewhere between four to six schools here in Xi'an. The rest are part of the regular corporation, and are run by a woman named Lancome. Apparently she's a fan of the perfume or something.

A few weeks before I came here, my mom found this forum post. I was fairly nervous about coming to work for Kid Castle because of it, but I was still optimistic that it wouldn't be as bad as they guy made things out to be. If you didn't read the post, the guy basically says that the school didn't pay him according to contract, attacked him, and even tried to have him arrested when he tried to leave. A while ago when some of the other teachers cam over to my place to hang out, this guy somehow came up in conversation. From what a guy who knew a guy who new this guy says, he was actually a real ass and had a lot of it coming to him, but working at the schools he worked for can be fairly crappy. that was when I remembered that I signed two different contracts with Kid Castle. The first one was for one of these schools owned by the Lancome woman. I'm still not sure how it happened, probably due to them being fairly crappy, I stopped getting emails from them and started getting emails from a woman named Sara. I signed a different contract with her and now work at the privately owned Kid Castles in a different part of the city than the Lancome ones. I've talked to a Lancome school teacher and she says that things can get kind of crappy some times, but they've never been near as bad as the forum poster makes them out to be. Since I live next to other teachers for the private school, I've talked to them plenty, and while they say that there have been the occasional hang-ups, things have always been resolved fairly easily.

So far everything has gone fairly well for me, and I haven't had anything to complain about. I probably used a good bit of luck to get to where I am, but it doesn't look like I'll need much more to keep things going at an even pace.