I received a callback on a resume I sent to an English school this morning. I'm a qualified English teacher with 5 years experience, he wanted me to start as soon as possible and was throwing words at me in strings I honestly could not understand. At one point after a barrage of information I simply replied “yes, those are all words” and he thought nothing of it.
After digging through his lack of intelligibility we get to the hourly rate, I thought $25-30 to be fair and reasonable, on par with other offers I've been getting. Woah — hold on there horsey, “see… this is Australia and that doesn't make sense” he stated firmly, “we have a curriculum… And it is written, we don't charge you for training at all”. What? Their selling point is they don't expect me to pay for my own training? I've never had to do that in my life. On top of that he didn't want to disclose to me the hourly rate, I'm not generally so forward with asking but I could tell he was trying to be a snake. All I could make out is that they expected me to do a significant amount of unpaid hours… Yeah, nah.
Know your worth. Tell it like it is. Garbage.