Hey Sebastian,
I can totally understand what you've been through with Sandrine Samperi (AKA Sandrine le plenier, or Loulou).
I was a teacher of hers almost two years ago and I was amazed of how things were being managed.
First, when I came for the interview, there were 2 other teachers waiting but after she saw me she sent everyone home without talking to them. I felt really bad and told her that she should at least see them before she hires me but she said she doesn't care (the first red flag I should have seen).
In addition, she even said it is a non profit organization (which was obviously a lie).
She was nice at the first few weeks I taught there but then she bacame very rude and mean! When I needed to change a date of a lesson she'd be furious and shouted towards me. It almost seemed like she just flipped on me, I was scared a little. Since I couldn't contact the students myself (I wasn't allowed to have or ask any info from them since she was afarid I'll steal her customers), so she had to do all the arrangements and made sure I'll feel really bad about it.
She also used to send me strange emails (I have them all saved) in an abusive wording.
After the 10 lessons I signed for were done, I just wanted out! She told me that if I am not going to continue with another 10 lessons whithout finding a substitue for me, I won't get paid. I was shocked!
First, isn't that your job to find the teachers? Aren't you suppose to screen them? You "trust" a guy who hardly worked for you to find a teacher himself? Which brings me to her other lie to the public where she states in her website that all the teachers are certifide. Well. I am not certified! The only thing she asked is that you'll be from the country you are teaching the language. No credentials, nothing! Yes people, that's how her school looks like!
That is how she picks teachers for her students... So unprofessional!
Obviuosly I preferred to not have any contact with that woman and even the (very small!) amount of money she owed me wasn't worth seeing her ever again!
Red flags are that she hasmany aliases, she changed her business name 3 times (and her personal names too!).
It seemslike she is trying to mask all her bad history on the web (from all usacomplaints.com and complaints against her) by having fake blogs of Sandrine Samperi and Le plenier with daily (non relevant to one another) postings so that if you google her, you'll see first those posts and not the old ones.
I think she also has multiple usernames to write fake positive reviews of her. I once wrote a review about the service there and a few hours later there were 5 (!!) positive reviews about her that seemed like it was written by the same person.
It was all just too fishy for me.
Tommy
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