I worked for Patricia's other tutoring agency - Tutorspot - for 8 months. I first got in contact with her because she called me, I'm assuming because she found my details on another agency and sold me on this excellent company she ran with loads of happy clients. I wish I had done my research. Firstly, the tutees were few and far between and they all had to come through Patricia - if she didn't like you, you didn't get tutees. It was a very strange business set up that should've raised more red flags than it did. The students I worked with were all very pleasant, as were the parents I was in contact with. Patricia was the reason I left tutoring with her company. She was unprofessional, patronising, and generally unpleasant to work with every step of the way. I would receive almost daily texts from her, micromanaging me and chastising me like a child when things weren't done her way. Sometimes if I didn't reply to her texts quickly enough, once in less than an hour, she would call and ask why things hadn't been done. One time she refused to pay me for a lesson she was paying for because the lesson did not occur. The lesson didn't occur because the student did not give any notice before not attending. Despite it being in the contract she had written herself that students must give 24 hours notice if they are unable to attend, otherwise payment would be taken as usual. I pointed this out to her and she found this outrageous. Do not work with Patricia, IPS Tutors, or Tutorspot.