Not quite a scam, but not quite a real job

Working here has been absolutely horrible, and it seems like things started to go downhill around when I started. Apparently the original owners sold out and a lot of things have been changed from how they originally were. It used to be a good place to work by the sound of it from ILA veterans. It is not a good place anymore.

In my experience, the management has no regard for the teaching staff. They basically treat us like migrant workers. I came here with a PGCE and previous experience teaching in SE Asia and the UK, but none of that matters to them. When you start working here, you will be inundated with inaccurate information and they will attempt to make up some reason to put you on the lowest pay scale. For me, it was that I didn't have the "correct" documents proving my work experience, even though I gave them valid contact information for all of my previous employers. They had even phoned HR at all of them and told me I wouldn't need to provide any further information! And then they wouldn't reimburse any of the costs associated with getting my visa.

The only thing worse than the bureaucrats are the working conditions. The first week I started here, I caught pink eye from a child. I had even tried sending this particular child home because he obviously had pink eye, but the academic manager just escorted him right back to class and said to deal with it. Nearly a half dozen students caught it as well. I was quite appalled.

The management is very insular. Most of the people who have become managers have done a certification that they've bought from ILA and stay because they hope ILA will eventually reimburse them. I have found the management quite hostile toward ideas outside of their narrow scope. Asking for any type of explanation behind a certain methodology always leads back to the certification they've bought from ILA. I don't think I can advance my career here at all because I haven't bought into everything they pontificate. It feels like a pyramid scheme sometimes.