Location: Bundang, South Korea
Is the Advanced Junior English
Institute right for you? Do you enjoy
working hard for absolutely NO money? Do
you mind switching apartments at least twice during your 12 month
contract? Do you have anything against
your employer spying on you or having full access to your apartment and private
things? If any of these questions are
making you seriously wonder about the legitimacy of the AJ English Institute,
then run like HELL.
In
order to save the reader some time, I’ll list some of the problems I
encountered while working at the Advanced Junior English Institute.
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The director and owner promised to
send me to Japan for my visa and never did.
They had me working illegally and then never paid me.
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They scheduled one of the 5 day
vacations over a big holiday, which meant that we wouldn’t have been working
anyway.
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The owner never signed the contract
after my arrival. They made sure to
point out the fact that they never signed it when I told them they weren’t
honoring our contract.
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I was fired after they told me that a
few parents didn’t like me. Their
insatiable hunger for money prevents them from honoring contracts and taking
care of their teachers. They made it
VERY clear how important making money is.
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I was told that I needed to pay them
1.4 million won for the recruiter’s fee.
After speaking to my recruiter, I discovered that the school never paid
the recruiter’s fee in the first place.
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I was also told that I owed them 1
million won for my plane ticket to South Korea, even though I was fired for no
legitimate reason. I also never received
any warnings (formal or informal).
