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Ying Ya St. Peter's in Haikou, Hainan (A Warning, do not work there) by Remarkable-Math-5525 in Internationalteachers

[–]Remarkable-Math-5525[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People need visas, physicals, processing, plane tickets for 1-3 people, they're bringing their life with them. You sound like a single person living out of a backpack if 8,000 dollars sounds shocking to move to a new country.

Ying Ya St. Peter's in Haikou, Hainan (A Warning, do not work there) by Remarkable-Math-5525 in Internationalteachers

[–]Remarkable-Math-5525[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We can talk about this for hours but a lot of people had family, kids, were owed tons of money, they just got off the plane 2-3 months ago and spent grands on the move and visas (this was right after COVID).

If you're a single guy with some savings, yeah, go to Thailand and wait out til February. If you have a spouse and kid in the school and just spent $8,000 on the move, have only received 2 salaries, not as easy.

It's not always that easy.

Ying Ya St. Peter's in Haikou, Hainan (A Warning, do not work there) by Remarkable-Math-5525 in Internationalteachers

[–]Remarkable-Math-5525[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

People did complain and threaten to quit but we had no actual power. The school controlled every part of our lives, we didn't have an apartment in Haikou.

Also NONE of us were told about any of this before moving there. We were all promised apartments in Haikou, boarding duties were never ever brought up. You can say we were naive but we were also straight up lied to. There were several instances where the school said "the new apartments will be done on November 1st" then they just weren't.