Really, I have nothing left to say. I hate that man more than I have ever hated anyone that I have encountered in my entire life. Hate is such a strong word, and there are very few people in this world that I assign that title to, but Morgan takes the cake. When I talk about Morgan, there is not a single thing I can say positive about him. If you have read even half of this blog, I am sure that you can understand why I hold such strong feelings for him. Of course, I am not going to relive all of the reasons why I hate him so much, but I will tell you what he has done to hold his spot at number one!
Today was pay day – a usual happy occasion, right? At the end of the day, Courtney came to my room and told me to head to Morgan’s office to get paid. Wait, wait, let me recap on how we get paid… there is a hand written spreadsheet that we record our hours, salary and taxes on, and Morgan pulls out a wad of cash and pays us all in cash. I know my monthly salary, and he gave us a table which states the percentage we should be paying in taxes to the Chinese Government, and he calculates it all out and gives us our money, and we go on our way (sketch, right).
So anyway, I go to Morgan’s office, and per usual, he has my spread sheet and piles of cash sitting all over his desk. I sit down, and we go over the days that I took off work and all that good stuff. Then he says, “Since you and Harp started asking so many questions about taxes, I decided to go over them all again, and I realized that I have not been taking out enough taxes all year… so you owe me money!” I was like, excuse me? So he continued to explain to me that last year, a foreign teacher told him that it was a certain percent, which is the percent that he has been using, but since we started asking questions, he called the Chinese Tax people and they told him a different number, so not only is he going to take more taxes out of our last two paychecks, but we owe him money from the last year that he has been under taxing us.
Naturally, I told him that it was completely absurd, and I refused to give him any money. I told him that I had the original documentation that he gave me which states what I should be “paying” in taxes, and until I see legit documentation proving otherwise, he was not going to get a dime of my money. Of course, this pissed him off and he started ranting about how this was for the Chinese Government and that he had no control and blah blah blah. So I said, that is fine, show me the documentation and show me the proof that he is actually paying taxes on me. So he jumped on his computer, and started a google search for Chinese Taxes of Foreign Expats. He clicked on 10 different sites including official governmental sites and came up with nothing – not a single word stating that I should owe him more money. Then the eleventh site that he clicked on was a blog, and at the very bottom, there was one sentence that stated something in the favor of his argument. But let’s be realistic… he thinks a blog is a reliable source of information in regards to my Chinese Taxes and a blog is going to be legit enough for me to pay him 1000 of RMB! I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT THINK SO!
He started to get really angry and I was to. I was not budging on my argument – show me legit documentation otherwise, you are not getting a dime of my money. He finally said, I will give you the money this time, but go home and do your research and you can give me the money on the last day of school on our final pay day. Well here is the thing, I have done enough “research” to know that his scam of a school is not legit, and I will fight him ‘til the death about this until he proves that I am even actually paying taxes in the People’s Republic of China.
So after he paid me, Courtney was next. She stood her ground and put up the same fight that I did - quick, easy and painless. After me, he knew exactly what to expect from Courtney. The kicker was when Shannon went in to get paid… Now Shannon has worked for Morgan for two years. She is moving back to the US at the end of June as well for good, but she has honored her entire contract faithfully at MRA for the last 2 years. Morgan told Shannon the same thing about the taxes, and that he has been under taxing her, however, he has been under taxing her for two years and he is clamming that she owes him money back for the LAST TWO YEARS! You have got to be kidding?!?!
I should tell you that I am not completely knowledgeable about the whole process, but I do know that Chinese taxing works somewhat similarly to US taxing – we don’t get money back, but in January, after an employer files his taxes, he gets a tax statement (similar to a W2) for each employee. Now if Morgan had actually been filing taxes, this is a mistake that he should have caught 2 years ago when he filled taxes for Shannon (and every other employee for the last five years). However, those taxes are said and done, yet he is claiming now that Shannon owes more money to the “government” because she has been under taxed.
So by this time, I am just fuming – LIVID about him being a fucking ass hole and trying to take advantage of us because we are foreigners. Then to top it all off, Courtney went back into his office to get something from him and he said, “You guys might want to talk to a lawyer and not your friends from the bar because I am reporting all of you to the IRS and the Chinese government. Make yourself a good case because you are going to need it when the IRS comes after you all. I will get money!” She said, OK – because that is Courtney, she is polite and passive. I on the other hand, would have said, bring it on Morgan! If you don’t go to the authorities, I would be happy to… then you can explain all of the bull shit that goes on behind closed doors while they go through every file in your school.
It is bull shit that he actually thinks I am just going to hand over money to him when he is already screwing me over with money from my contract. I was not going to put up a fuss about it because I am just ready to be done with him and his school, but if he is going to try and screw me over even more, I am going to do everything in my power to take him down… letter home to the parents, a trip to the Bureau and the police department, not to mention contacting universities in Michigan to expose his school for what it really is and keep him from conning Americans into working at his “preschool”.
I am just so mad that I could scream! Two weeks – TWO WEEKS – I have left at his school and he is going to try and pull this shit! Just get me out of here!!
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