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alex s. DO NOT WORK FOR THEM.

tHE COMAPNY ARE TRAFFICKING PEOPLE TO CHINA. ALL THE POSITIVE REPORTS ARE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THIS COMPANY OF 3 NAMES
1 - ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL
2 - HAVE FUN TEACHING
3 - LITTLE DRAGON

take a look at, http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1890692

http://www.ripoffreport.com/teachers/english-internationa/english-international-the-tru-f8e83.htm

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2161463

http://china.eslteachercafe.com/topic851-havefunteachingcouk-and-english-international.aspx

http://forums.gumtree.com/viewtopic_f_29_t_386018_Teaching_English_in_China

(latest post very interesting)

(China teach leeds havefunteaching.co.uk englishinternational.info scam job leeds)

complete scam

alex - a teacher employed through this company. back in uk now.

Tony M. Alex from Alex and Dee?

Tony M. I can see these are older comments so if anyone is thinking of going out with POD the new name for English International listen up!

We were led to believe the company had gone bust that Billy (one of two Brothers called Billy and Adam Parr) Co owners of the company(you will be told Elliot owns it, this is a cover story he is an employee of four years who left the company and is now owned by them because of personal reasons and a debt that he chose to pay off in service) had been arrested once he was back in England for the colossal theft that had been reported. It was also stated that Tim (the tall one in the office) a silent partner had fled Leeds and was running from the Police. Adam (the calculated and articulate one) had avoided all charges.

Now I read that they are back under the name of POD and it makes my blood run cold. I had a VERY hands on experience with this company last year, I knew the teachers and their stories and as far fetched as they seem every single word is true. Imagine your worst nightmare in a Communist country where you do not speak the language and they do, completely at their mercy or (as happened last year) sacked in seconds in the foyer of a rented Hotel and left to fend for yourself.

Please excuse the following profanity but Vicky (Ivy) or Mudan which means Flower, your real name in your Province of Hunnan I believe it was your bull !!!! chokes me. I can tell you names and give you case studies of people who went out there and what happened to them I have files containing the details of their Chinese "experiences" from a young Scottish girl called Deirdre who was chased down the street by Lucas (owner of Omega the Chinese company people refer to above) to people like Mark who got out by pretending to go to the interview and was later cornered in a cafe and made to pay an extortionate 9000RMB to terminate his contract with and I quote "his arms in tact".

Please, please please for the love of God if you are thinking of going out there with this company DON'T!!!!!
You can dismiss me as a disgruntled employee (and they will try) but I wasn't I served my time quietly collecting information for use in the UK.
You can read this and think to yourself "that's one guys opinion, I'll make my own mind up" like two best friends did and find yourself sitting in front of a laptop in a noisy training room trying to be interviewed for a location undisclosed... It happened - Damien was sent to a rat infested hole where he could see through the roof at night (we are talking big bloody rats), Richard got sent to Hunnan (12 inches of snow) in shorts and a t-shirt and nearly froze to death in the Airport at the other side, Chris was sacked because they wanted to put a girl in his school after 3 months and moved to the outskirts of Shenzhen where you have to be a mountain goat to get to your school miles from civilisation...

There are more in fact last year alone there were 178 people all of which with horror stories and none of which got what they were promised.
Please I beg you if you are a parent reading this for your child be a good parent and say no you can not go!! They may be upset but you save them from a terrible fate you protect them which lets face it is your job. If you're a potential teacher let logic guide you think can all these people be wrong of course not your opportunity may lie in China it is a beautiful place but it does not lie with this company.

I am so concerned about all of this starting up again that I am going to bookmark this site and every day after School (I am a Teacher) I will log on to this blog and answer any questions you may have - PLEASE ask me the questions don't find out for yourself because trust me when I say not all experiences are worth feeling for yourself. In the meantime I will speak to the teachers I am still in contact with from last year and tell them about this blog, the new site and the new name. Don't be fooled people.

alex s. Hey, good to know. billy really aressted. how can clarify this, tim on the run.. be better to copy and paste your comment on the http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.podtravelandteach.co.uk#7
forum. getting more views. also the gumtree forum.. there new site is podtravel and teach.. not havefun teaching..

alex s. post a new topic on that forum, paste this there. how you hear about billy being arrested? i don't think "vicky" is ivy though

Tony M. I am currently posting on Gum Tree but thanks for the heads up Alex I will post on the POD site. These people have to be stopped. I agree that Ivy and Vicky may not be the same person especially as Ivys family would never let her go back to Billy after the shame it brought on her family when he abandoned her. Also I am in contact with Ivy and she is running her own fashion range in Shenzhen.

As for Billy, I kept in touch with as many teachers as I could it fed back to me through the ones in the UK that he had been arrested and the fact that several teachers said the same thing made it appear true - however I have since discovered they heard it from other teachers and so on like Chinese whispers (literally) so it could be a rumour EI started to avoid being hunted.

There are so many other horror stories like blondes being posted in such remote locations locals started to cut their hair because they had never seen a blonde person before and people with heart conditions being given an apartment on the 8th floor of a building without an elevator.,... I could go on forever but the most disturbing was the private conversations of Sindubingwan the offices of Omega in Shenzhen where they openly discussed how they were going to "rob the teachers".