Wowtalk

An Open Letter About How to Avoid the Aggravation of Teaching at WOWTalk Dear Brandon Wang, My apologies for taking so long to thank-you for suspending my account. Frankly, it was the best thing that happened since I started working at WOWTalk. The students were wonderful to work with and I had a collection of regulars. Further, my evaluations were exceptionally high, indicating that they appreciated me as a teacher. Your process of management-by-bullying, I suspect, is going to be detrimental to the company as the teachers will leave. Thank-you again for suspecting my account. I have been so busy working with my new writing job that pays considerably more and which I am enjoying so much. Still, it was tardy of me to wait so long to write as I have already used the WOWTalk contact as scrap paper. Regards, Dr. Jody Hanson CC-ed to the following sites Facebook Glassdoor Review of WOWTalk https://www.glassdoor.com//employ/collectReview_input.htm Pros The student at WOWTalk are serious, hardworking, and a pleasure to work with. After only a few weeks I had a group of students I regularly worked with and got to know as people. My classes were always booked well in advance. And my evaluations were very high. Cons The best way to avoid the aggravation of teaching at WOWTalk is to find another school. The salary is low -- $14 an hour and there are a lot better places to teach out there. The academic administrator is the worst bully I have ever encountered in my many years of working. He regularly suspends accounts without notifying the teachers. And if the Internet is down, the teacher is responsible. He has the administrative skills of a wombat. Emails that come out of the administration at WOWTalk are generally bordering on illiterate. The provided materials are an embarrassment to use as they are littered with mistakes. They have never been edited by a native-speaker. Consequently, there is a box to screen-shot the mistake and then pass it on to administration. To correct all the mistakes in the average lesson would require more time than planning the lesson, delivering it, and completing the follow-up. This is all expected to be done as a free service. Advice to management Get the materials properly edited. It is embarrassing when advanced students ask if the mistakes were put there on purpose for them to find. Tone down the Rambo style administration and develop a writers manual. Yelling at people and not listening leads to very bad administrative practice that will seriously damage the reputation of the company.