>>7769050I'll be honest, it's the teaching itself that gets on my nerves in general these days. The website is somewhat nice, but what really shines there is the amount of tiny useful little features I can use to make my job easier and the abundance of teaching material I can use virtually in any way I please.
More importantly, though, I am Russian and teach Russian teenagers, so the choice to ditch the company in my favor is not theirs to make at all, and their parents are most likely as paranoid as any other Russian of their age is, especially when it comes to businesses or anyone trying to take their money. At the very least they get guarantees and features to help them learn from the company, which is not something I can offer.
Same thing with me - my students have rules and obligations to follow as well as I do, and it secures my income a little further with policies like 8-hour prior notice to cancel or reschedule the lesson for students (and 24-hour for me, but that's fine), yet we can be more flexible than some rules want us to be; you know, to be cool with each other and keep studying together for longer and be able to change some things without any beef between us.
Not the worst of my jobs entirely, of course. I'm just really salty about my wage and the lack of financial security (no paid days off, no vacation, no sick days, no holidays, everything's on me) among increasingly stricter regulations they makes the teacher follow. Typical corporate machine trying to look nice and friendly, yet shitting all over people who are necessary to their business model.
