Palfish Teacher-English Tutor

This company has no morals. We got a 40% pay cut with only 9 days notice last year. Now they’re firing experienced teachers for no reason! For example, teachers have been fired this week for complaints given 2-3 years ago. For cancelling classes within 24 hours if they caught covid or got ill. PalFish has been going downhill for the past 3.5 years but they just hit rock bottom.

Having to write this review is such a shame as I have really loved working for Palfish. Last year Palfish forced teachers to take an almost 40% paycut. At the same time, they disabled the messaging feature for 3 weeks for “maintenance” so that teachers could not tell their students what was going on. Any teachers who decided not to accept the new pay rate had all their remaining classes instantly cancelled and could not say goodbye to their students. This month, long-standing teachers are being fired for “offenses” such as too many class cancellations, complaints etc, most of which are either untrue or from over 2 years ago. Not to mention having their remaining classes cancelled and actually being fined for this. An even lower pay rate has now been introduced for new teachers, making this far below the live -able wage for many countries. There are far better paying ESL companies out there who actually treat their teachers with respect. Don’t lower yourself to this company’s standards!

Terrible company. Teachers get a 40 percent pay cut, then get fired for nothing. Avoid like the plague.

Started with PalFish in 2019 and absolutely loved it. I had bookings straight away and was earning a substantial amount of pocket money. Unfortunately, as time went on, our incentives were slowly chipped away. Including a pay cut in 2021, which severely impacted my financial expectations. I left in December 2021 and do not regret my decision. I became so paranoid of upsetting students, cancellations and disappointing PalFish as a company. I am now with other companies who are more supportive and actually treat their teachers like people not like dogs. Do not work for this company!!!

I started this company in 2018 and it was great during covid. Then with 9 days notice the company cut all teachers salaries by 40% and now they are firing the best teachers for basically no reason! This company is not ethical they don’t care about their students or teachers!

I worked for PalFish for over 3 years and I used to live it earning £18+ per hour, then they started cutting the pay, eventually down to £6 an hour, eventually they randomly fired everyone and deducted more pay for the final classes that they cancelled. The people who run this company have absolutely no morals and can’t even be described as human.

This company lies about their loyal teachers, makes up stories to tell students which are completely false, steals money from teachers, excessively fines teachers, and is hands down the worst company I have ever worked for. If I could give zero stars, I would! Stay away!!!

This organization is only concerned with making money, the teachers are treated like dirt, given no support and often ripped off. The well-being and development of the students and teachers is not important to PalFish, it’s simply a moneymaking exercise, so I would not recommend teachers to apply or parents to enroll their kids here.

PalFish used to be the sole income for me. The system and rewards were great and I felt appreciated. In they last year they have slowly been eating away at salaries with point system reductions meaning you can’t reach the higher levels. The nail in coffin was a 30-40% pay cut across the board. It’s below minimum wage so with that I had to go my own way. Teachers are under appreciated.

DO NOT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY. Seriously. I started working for them in 2018, aka the Golden Years. They progressively sunk lower and lower, to a new low in July 2021, when they reduced staff wages by 40%, with 9 days notice. This company is in serious financial difficulty and should be avoided AT ALL COSTS.