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Q: Would you work for 1-2 month(s) on a tourist visa for a package in the mid 20's?
Total package including housing stipend = 25,000-26,000 in a T1. Teacher needed within a month, so not enough time to finish transferring L to Z. I feel like without a teaching license back home, this is about the max one can ever get (maybe a couple thousand more RMB if they are really lucky), which would make it more difficult to turn down. If the visa transfer process was stalled, the teacher could just abandon ship, because they aren't bound by a visa, right?
7 years 3 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
no.
while it looks attractive, good luck to an illegal worker actually getting paid such money at the end of the 2 months.
no.
while it looks attractive, good luck to an illegal worker actually getting paid such money at the end of the 2 months.
If you've got your paperwork ready then it should only take the school a matter of weeks to get permission to employ you. Plus they save time on not needing invite letters anymore. No need to come on a tourist visa. Tell the school to apply for the employment license NOW!
As Blondie was basically saying - the offer may well be attractive so that they can screw you over by just not paying you... and you would have ZERO legal recourse!
If I was the PSB, and wanted to kick out illegally working foreigners, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd be offering to see who would take it...
There's 3 suckers born everyday. What do you do when they don't pay up?!
Chinajobber:
Quit directly after the first month if they didn't pay?? But yeah, I agree it's a risk. Most big school semesters don't start until late Summer so there is a giant gap between now and then.
I am looking for another job right now, and some recruiter answered me and offered me a chance at a position paying something like 15,000 a month, five days a week, no weekends. Sure, I might be interested.
She kept asking me what my schedule is, and I told her (had to be a her) that I am off Mondays and Tuesdays, and work Wednesday to Sunday. I thought this was for the interview.
The (retarded) thing was that they (I guess her or the school) needed someone ASAP! This is from the first week of April. You cannot just get someone ASAP (to the foreigners who taught Chinese acronymns, FU.). Not legally. I cannot just legally quit my legal job and go to you. My employer wouldnt sign the release letter, much less a letter of good conduct which is required now. Almost no one has a contract that ends in the middle of Spring. Or you can opt for an "illegal" worker for two or three months to cover, risking the school fines and your teacher arrested, and if the teacher survives that, the person would have to travel back to their home country for a new Z visa which takes time.
Chinese are very nonsensical in the way they do things.
icnif77:
They WANT ...! That is all!
I experienced similar necessity in every School, I worked in China since 2009.
I had Public school offer Contract, but their 'laowai hire cert.' didn't came through ...
yet! School's rep sent me an email:
'Can you come by Tuesday, because principal would like you attend opening ceremony?'
I missed the ceremony, and when I arrived later to Henan with valid RP, I had to return home/exit China, because School didn't have 'laowai hire cert.'.
They don't care! It's 'me&me&me&sucessfull, i.e 'I got FT'.
I had feelings, like it was me who set the working laws/regulations in China ....
Where such move fits? Is it more 'stipud' or is it more 'retarded' .... I don't know!
You should ask School to show you 'laowai hire certificate', before you sign the Contract!
