Please stay away SCAMMERS they have caused a lot of people money
ME
Monique E.
Absolute nightmare experience with TEFL on the beach
Absolute nightmare. My family and I came to Asia hoping to emigrate. Sam promised us jobs and accommodation. He stated he could get us in at the same school and assist with finding accommodation but this has not materialized. The two agents we communicated with were extremely rude. Sams exact words these people do not ****ing care about our situation. He said Thai people will fire you just for asking a question. He told us we need to compromise. We were the only ones compromising. According to both agents Sam had not made them aware that all three of us needed to be placed at the same school nor about our requirements regarding accommodation. In Singburi the three places we viewed were not within walking distance to the school, shops or anything at all. The one apartment was located in a smelly building, with no ventilation, felt like a furnus, no balcony nor windows. Second place appeared to be storage units converted into rooms. No window, sliding door or balcony. The space was half the size of a container, the third place was about a 10 to 15 minutes drive to the school. The second and third property had no kitchen and no space for one. We were told we would need to buy a gas stove and cook outside and do the dishes outside. The agent recommended a fourth property which costed 20 000 to 25 000 baht per month. The agent told my niece and husband they would drive them to the school for the first two days and after that they would need to find their own way to work. Singburi is a very small town with nothing to do. Taxis do not operate in Singburi. Sam's response was that they should learn how to ride a scooter as everyone does. Yes, fair enough but that would require one to go for lessons. How would they get to school and home during the interim??? Bare in mind this was not what was sold. Renting a scooter or car means ones budget would be affected however we were looking at these options. The agent told them they needed to make a decision that night. Due to the bad experience along with one of the teachers at the school briefing them on a couple things which included that Tefl and the agents tell us is not what happens and that we needed to read the contracts carefully. We decided to leave. Then he told us there were two teaching jobs in Trang or Krabi but we needed to go to Nakhon to meet with the agent we told him we do not want to go to another place without providing us with information such as the school, suburb, apartment etc as we want to avoid our previous experience which costed us a lot of money. He refused to give us literally any information. He assured us the agent had 2 or 3 properties available, it was easier to get accommodation in Krabi or Trang. We would just go for one day and then be taken to the school. He linked us upp with a South African guys called Ebrahim. He told me he was fami**** with those places and would provide me with more information. The agent assured me the agent would assist us. Eventually we decided to go. Waited an hour and a half at the train station, she was unaware of us being placed in Trang or Krabi, said there were only teaching jobs in Nakhon. We have lost so much money. We are not the only people in the same situation. Empty promises. Please do not pay for the orientation placement and go via Tefl on the beach. The agent told us due to budgets the school can't hire more than one teacher at the same school and that the school wants to employ white teachers. She did not even bother to find us accommodation. She told us to find our own accommodation. We ended us staying there for four nights at a hotel instead of being there for a few hours as promised. Sam and Ebrahim told me that the agent is lazy however we need to be patient. Very convenient only after we arrived there we are informed of this. The agent told my niece and husband to go to Trang but if the schools reject them they would need to return to Nakhon. Then the jobs in Nakhon were no longer available. Ebrahim requested 5k from all of us to get us jobs. DISASTER!!!
