It looks like there are still people looking at this blog. I found a post I had not previously seen written by a teacher who worked at Yes. It's not really a horror story, more a short summary of the pros and cons.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/YES-Youngdo-English-School-Reviews-E338204.htm
The title of this post is "You Could Do Worse." That title wouldn't exactly grab me and make me want to apply to this place! However, it makese sense to teachers who have lived in Korea and heard various stories.
The teacher makes a point about the cameras in classes. I want to say something about that. When I was there I kind of half-knew about that. We couldn't see the camera in the class, but in the office there were TV screens for the classes/hallways/entrance and so on. In class I usually or maybe always forgot about them.
After I'd been given about two weeks notice to leave, one day between classes while I was talking to another teacher the infamous manager rudely called me over to his desk which embarassed me and seemed to confuse the other teacher. He gave me a little info on my visa being cancelled, probably the date it would be, but I can't remember much. That took just a minute. As I walked away another teacher looked at me curiously. I had asked the manager to keep the situation private until after I left. Well there was not only that but a day or so before going a different teacher told me he'd heard the manager saying to some people that I was leaving. Anyway, back to video.
After this happened, I started to teach my next class for a bit and was fed up enough to leave class and go back to the manager telling him that I wanted the owners' contact info so that I could tell them how I had been treated there. The manager smiled through this whole conversation. One thing he said was that he'd videotaped two classes and sent them to the owners. That was kind of a stab in the stomach. As I said I mostly didn't think about the cameras and I never thought that the manager could/would do this. The other main part of that talk I believe I put into another post, but I'll just rewrite it here. The manager went on to say that if I went to the owners he could , I quote: "Make things very bad for me." Again he was smiling through all this.
After leaving I wanted to send a letter to them. They seemed to me to be a reasonable, well-to-do Christian couple in their 40s who unfortunately had little contact with teachers. However, I couldn't see how to get a letter to them only. The hagwon address always included the manager's name. I didn't know the owners' full names. Had I written them in English or in Korean which the staff could see was obviously written by a foreigner...I believe that the manager would have tried to prevent such a letter from reaching the owners.
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