How do you say "You have got to be shitting me" in Japanese?
NOVA/G.Education has a post up regarding the hiring of new part-time teachers. They're looking for 20 teachers in various parts of the country, and here is their hilariously inadequate offer:
Salary: From 1500 yen/lesson depending on experience and qualifications. That's really lowballing. Any half-decent native English speaker can get private lessons for twice that. And since they're only doing part-time, my guess is that they're offering these positions to people with working holiday visas. My advice to these people: get private lessons and charge 3000 yen an hour. You'll make more, and you'll have more control over your own time.
Transport costs will be paid at 100 yen per hour traveled. This is where the title of this post hit me. 100 yen per hour traveled? Let me be very clear on this: there is no mode of transportation available in Japan, other than one's own feet or bicycle, that will take you anywhere at all for 100 yen. Not even one stop, much less an hour away. I want to know what drugs these people are taking....
It looks like G.Education has finally stabilized things and they're getting ready to make some serious changes. One of my colleagues got a notice about a change in the lateness and absence policy that can result in an instructor being fired outright for excessive absences. Rumor has it that we're going to go to five students in a class soon, which will be really tough in rooms that were designed for three-student classes. There's a lot of faxes flying about, but not everyone is getting them. I still haven't gotten the one that's supposed to be about contract details, and it makes me a little nervous.
On the good news side, we've got some new staff in training right now, which brings us back up to three. It's still too few people if we want any hope of opening seven days a week, but the fact that they're new hires is encouraging. Most of NOVA's former Japanese staff decided not to take G.Ed's re-employment offer, probably because as much as the teachers got screwed, the staff got royally gang-banged and left at the side of the road with only 100 yen for a bus ride. Having shiny new staff members at least means there are people who are willing to give the new company a chance.
We're all still kind of nervous about change, though. It's G.Ed's business now, and they can revamp it in whichever way they feel is necessary to make it turn a profit. I just kind of wish they'd include us in the process. But they won't....
Salary: From 1500 yen/lesson depending on experience and qualifications. That's really lowballing. Any half-decent native English speaker can get private lessons for twice that. And since they're only doing part-time, my guess is that they're offering these positions to people with working holiday visas. My advice to these people: get private lessons and charge 3000 yen an hour. You'll make more, and you'll have more control over your own time.
Transport costs will be paid at 100 yen per hour traveled. This is where the title of this post hit me. 100 yen per hour traveled? Let me be very clear on this: there is no mode of transportation available in Japan, other than one's own feet or bicycle, that will take you anywhere at all for 100 yen. Not even one stop, much less an hour away. I want to know what drugs these people are taking....
It looks like G.Education has finally stabilized things and they're getting ready to make some serious changes. One of my colleagues got a notice about a change in the lateness and absence policy that can result in an instructor being fired outright for excessive absences. Rumor has it that we're going to go to five students in a class soon, which will be really tough in rooms that were designed for three-student classes. There's a lot of faxes flying about, but not everyone is getting them. I still haven't gotten the one that's supposed to be about contract details, and it makes me a little nervous.
On the good news side, we've got some new staff in training right now, which brings us back up to three. It's still too few people if we want any hope of opening seven days a week, but the fact that they're new hires is encouraging. Most of NOVA's former Japanese staff decided not to take G.Ed's re-employment offer, probably because as much as the teachers got screwed, the staff got royally gang-banged and left at the side of the road with only 100 yen for a bus ride. Having shiny new staff members at least means there are people who are willing to give the new company a chance.
We're all still kind of nervous about change, though. It's G.Ed's business now, and they can revamp it in whichever way they feel is necessary to make it turn a profit. I just kind of wish they'd include us in the process. But they won't....