Hello and thank you for coming to see this post. I hope that you are one of the hopefully few who have thought about possibly working at SEPIS (Shandong Electric Power School.) I am here to destroy the reputation of said school, and as any good teacher knows, you should enjoy your job, and I sure enjoy anything that hurts this school.

I taught as a native english speaking teacher at this school for 9 months. In month 1 this school braught another teacher from canada and unfortunately was unable to get her her Visa so they just didnt pay her till she had to leave because of being afraid shed be deported. She never got a dime and worked a full month and a half, not to mention the airfare costs she incurred.

I ask for my arrival airfare refund atleast 10 times, but it isnt paid to me even though it is expressly written in my contract that my airfare should be paid within the first month.

Next, my apartment is broken into. the school not only doesnt pay for the door to be repaired, but suggests I should pay for them to fix it and that I can't hire someone from outside the school to do it. The door remains broken for 4 months, allowing anyone to enter at anytime.

Next, I am deathly ill and unfortunately am up almost all night being sick. I dont wake up for class and miss one. I call later that day, and I make up the class later that week. Yet Im still fined 3000yuan breach penalty so I decide Ive had enough with this school and Im not going to be bullied and allow others to be bullied so I quit.

I move out of the apartment with the broken door. and into an apartment on campus which I pay for and begin trying to get my 5000yuan airfare refund which was supposed to be paid to me upon my arrival... Just the arrival airfare. They fined me 3000yuan, that constitutes a break of contract and I am fully within my rights to quit it at this point uncontested, they agree but say that I must give them "some papers" to quit the contract. I bring MANY papers but apparently always the wrong ones, I go 3 months like this, get a lawyer involved, have my friends translate documents for me, many meetings (which they often would conveniently miss, especially whenever my lawyer was present) and am constantly insulted and scorned. After three months they try to wheezle out of paying me by saying that I should pay for 3 months rent in that apartment and that the rent is 280 yuan a day LOL. I bring them rent receipts from my new place and I even bring my landlord to testify that Ive been living in a new apartment this whole time...They say that these documents, receipts and even testimony are "USELESS" (actual term used) because Im a foreigner and dont have the right to rent any apartment in China... OMG I hate them so much, I still havent gotten my arrival airfare refund and fight to this day, 1 year after the fact.

Please heed my advice in this post or in any other newspaper or internet site where I have left similar messages. Do Not work at Dien Xiao, SEPIS Shandong Electric Power School, in Tai'an. It is a cesspool of corruption and they will do anything they can to hold money back and make your life difficult. You cant have female friends over even for dinner, they watch you like a hawk and are completely racist, liers, and scoundrels to the toes.

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