The List of 20,000

Unfortunately the article neglected to give the full story on where G Com and the yakiniku warriors will get their 20000 instructors. From a secret document sent to area managers this week all can now be revealed !!

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Hey Canadajin........when pricks get on your nerves like that just think........what would Batman do? POW! WHAM! WHACK!

have smashed numerous salary pukes and weasel line cutters over the years here. i generally consider myself a chill dude, but certain behavioral errors need some correction. i dont miss a wink of sleep over it either. funny thing is, often older women (grannies) show the worst manners on the train and at the markets. two cans of chu-hi or more and things can get a little riled up. move bitch get out da way, cuz um hardly ever caught sober.

How can that be surprising? Shoving grannies is one of the few entirely universal human traits. In Spain some of them stick their elbows out in front of them like battering rams and get you right in the small of the back...

Talk about desperate measures, does Inayoshi think this will inspire confidence among students and potential franchisees? How stupid would they have to be to swallow that.

Wow! That's quite the employment pool in reserve. What a crucial discovery in difficult times. Everything's going to be alright now.

Of course all of these people are available. None of them have found jobs, moved to another country, quit teaching, retired, passed away or have vowed never to work for Nova again or come back to Japan.

The sad thing is that gullible Japan will idiotically buy into to this bullshit spin.

Teachers, students, JAPAN....wake the f up!!!!!

I can't wait for them to call me..... I tell to stick that job offer where the sun don't shine!!!!! Please call me! I'm just chompin at the bit!

There'd actually be anyone out there desperate and/or stupid enough to actully take them up on the 'offer' for want of a better word?

"The Group" that was independently formed late last year has delivered its message to "G" by filing lawsuits in DISTRICT COURT, not in some weak government agency where, even if you win, your adverse can immediately start the whole thing over again from square 1, by appealing to the District Court. "The Group" has no affiliation with any other organization dealing with "G."

Kudos to the women who had the spine to hit back instead of whining.

KUDOS to the women who "boldly went where no man went before."

And this: Whether they win or they lose, G still gets to part with a nice pile of cash to defend their obnoxious behavior. That, too, does not happen at government regulatory agencies.

Alalalai, as they used to say in Greek. !Arriba!,in Spanish. Good on you!, as they sometimes say in English. And whatever in as many other languages as possible.

Ever wondered why John (I will do anything to get my pension) Lukasik, got promoted so quickly?
He was taking Flaming Lord`s cock up his ass for a few extra pennies!
What a bunch of fucking losers!
Hey grandad! I know which train you get on now!
I`m gonna break your nose and give you one hell of a kicking soon!

I'd go back for 350K.

You've just described my former coworkers at Nova Yokohama Honko. Uncanny!

Bless 'em.

why are you pleased that a group of tossers are trying to sue g.com?
they are paying alot of peoples wages and useless wankers like that just get more people fired...heres hoping nothing comes of the pathetic little group.

Great article.

It's nice to know that at least some of the media are paying attention. Whether Japan cares or not is another story though.

I stab my vodoo G-Com doll everyday. I hope it's working.

It has become obvious that the statements regarding increasing branch numbers/increasing teacher numbers is totally spin by Mr Inayoshi and his company and an attempt to win over the Japanese peoples trust and confidence in his attempt to make something out of the ruins of Nova.

From an instructors point of view at my branch two teachers on "standby" will be let go on April 30th, one resigning (last day May 2nd) and yesterday saw some strained and heated exchanges between J staff and regular students who could not book lessons this weekend. I think we lost four or five students this week and a senior kids class has been stopped.

Mr Inayoshi needs to address and comment on day to day operations and events rather than telling us and the public what he dreams about at night.

Ha ha! After all the atrocious behavior of G, you posted THIS???

Well, to each his own. You belong with them.

Be interesting to see just when & how they will eventually stick it to ya.

Sorry for the cut and paste (from older post on this forum), but at this point, let us recall who and what New Nova is, and where they came from:

"Thinking of teaching English in Hokkaido in Japan's most livable city, Sapporo? How about historic Hakodate or scenic Asahikawa with its large national park? Well, whatever you do, make sure that you make EC your absolute last choice for employment in Hokkaido.

Don't be confused by the name:
ECC: legitimate English school using professional materials

EC: a complete joke run by lunatic slave-masters that use so-called original lessons which are actually complete garbage.

EC's reputation is so bad in Hokkaido that they don't even bother recruiting teachers there. They interview in Tokyo or try to get people from overseas (especially Canada) because anyone who knows about the school would never work there.

Let's go through the process of becoming an EC teacher and then show you some of the fun in store for you when you finally have the "privilege" to work for this joke of a school.

(1) Training (???)
In their advertisement, EC claims that they provide TESL training. This is a complete lie. Nobody with TESL training would come near this place. EC requires all teachers to go through approximately 2 weeks of "boot camp" and if they don't like you after this 2 weeks, they tell you to hit the road. So if you're coming from a foreign country directly to EC, you could be stuck in Japan without a job after two weeks. ADVICE: never agree to more than 2-3 days of training at an English school in Japan unless you are paid full wages. It's only an excuse to pay you nothing for teaching classes. EC gives no salary for the training period and gives a whopping food allowance of 2000 yen/day. They provide housing but the place is a dive and the front desk people are actually spies for EC so if you come back late after drinking or bring a girl or guy back to the room, you will be reported to EC and fired. EC sends Japanese staff members to follow trainees during lunch and dinner breaks. Who knows what they think trainees will do during this time but that's the mentality of the place.

Once training begins, EC tries to screw with your head and destroy any self-respect that you may have so when you actually try and teach EC's garbage lessons, you think you are actually accomplishing something. The first week of training is spent with one of the Japanese managers, usually Mr. Eiichi Yamaya, and the second week is spent with a foreign "trainer".
One of the highlights during the first week of training is practicing the EC method of saying "Hello" to students. First, there is practiced under the watchful eye of said Mr. Yamaya. All you do is say, "Hello" to a poster on a wall, pretending that it is an EC student. The esteemed Mr. Yamaya gives such helpful comments as "You must smile more when saying 'Hello'",
"You must use your diaphragm more", and "Your 'Hello' must come from the heart". After a half hour of this nonsense, you are left alone in the room and told to practice saying "Hello", and only "Hello", for 60 minutes by yourself to the poster on the wall. Some training!

During training trainees are secluded from the staff, forbidden to talk to regular EC teachers, and kept until 10 or 11:00 at night (starting time 9:00 A.M.). Obviously, the reason is that most teachers will tell you that EC is the worst school to work for. MORE ADVICE: try and meet with current teachers from any school at which you are thinking of working. The good schools will be happy to comply. The joke schools, like EC, will not permit it.

The second week of training is done with a foreigner. This is the person that you want to be most wary of. Never confide your true feelings to one of these turncoats who has sold his soul to the devil. Normally, he or she will act like your best buddy, and after spending a week with the Japanese manager, this person will seem like the coolest person in the world. But be warned: don't trust any foreigner who works in some upervisory role at EC. These are lifelong losers who finally have some sense of power and will stab you in the back at any chance.

At EC, foreigners are simply a necessary evil with round eyes and big noses. Most Japanese students like to study English with foreign teachers so the Japanese owners and managers must hire foreigners but any foreign worker will be treated like a piece of meat. While not all Japanese-owned English schools treat their teachers this way, it's best to be careful when looking for work. Usually, the bigger the school, the worse they treat teachers.

EC requires all new teachers to go through a 2-3 month probationary period. This means that EC will not sponsor a work visa nor will they pay the minimum salary required by law, 250,000 yen/month. EC requires that you work using your tourist visa (US) or your working-holiday visa (Canada, Aus., NZ). The reason they do this is that so many teachers quit EC soon after they join because it's such a terrible place to work. MORE ADVICE: try to find out how long the teachers at a school have worked there. If a school has a majority of teachers who have been there 2-3 years, then most likely it is a reputable place. At EC the only people there longer than a year are losers that think they've died and gone to heaven compared to their last job of pumping gas in some hillbilly town.

(2) Now you're an EC teacher
Once you start teaching, you will be amazed at the garbage that EC gives you to teach. Most reputable schools use textbooks and other professionally prepared materials. EC uses "original" lessons that are actually nonsense written by past EC teachers. EC pays its teachers 8000 yen to write a lesson and the only teachers that write any are the money-hungry clowns that don't mind whoring themselves even more than they do by just working at this joke of a school. Most lessons have no value whatsoever and only make the teacher feel like a complete jerk for trying to teach them. After a few months of tearing your hair out trying to teach this garbage, most EC teachers simply lose all self-respect and turn into robots, just spewing out the worthless drivel day after day. The real losers are the students who are seriously trying to learn English and spend US$ 3000 to join this school only to be given completely useless lessons.

If you get sick, EC does not permit you to take paid sick days. If you don't work, then you don't get paid. So naturally, if someone is sick they come to work anyway in order to get paid and the other teachers wind up catching whatever illness the first teacher had. The law in Japan states that workers are entitled to 12 sick days a year, called Yukyu. However, EC illegally disallows its teachers from using this. Recently, a local magazine printed an article about a foreign teacher who had to return to America for two weeks because her mother was dying. She informed EC that she was taking her Yukyu, but when she returned EC fired her without any warning by claiming that many students complained about her poor performance. She is now suing EC for wrongful termination of employment. This teacher had been at EC for over a year and had learned about Yukyu from a teacher at another school. Rumor around Japan is that an English school will fire any teacher who even mentions Yukyu.

My personal horror story occurred when I had to enter the hospital for an operation on my elbow. Originally, the doctor suggested that I remain in the hospital for 2 weeks. Upon hearing this, the Japanese manager called the doctor and demanded that I be released after 1 week because "EC is very busy and cannot find a replacement teacher." As mentioned before, at EC foreign teachers are treated like pieces of meat. ADVICE: find out a school's vacation and sick day policy before working for one.

(3) Leaving EC
If you try and leave EC before the expiration of your first contract (1 year), they will try to pressure, threaten, and bully you into staying. They feel that any teacher leaving before one year disgraces their honorable school. One common ploy is to threaten to revoke your work visa by contacting the immigration office and saying that you are unemployed. Most foreigners fall prey to this act and stay a year. ADVICE: any contract that you sign does not require you to work there if you don't want to. So go ahead and quit any school that you don't like. However, one problem is that most apartments require foreigners to have their company act as a sponsor so if you quit, you must either find a new sponsor for your apartment or move.

EC does not want teachers to stay much more than a year or two. By then foreign teachers discover all the nonsense going on at EC and "corrupt" the new teachers. As the woman mentioned above found out, after one year EC will fire you faster than you can say "slavery lives in Hokkaido".

Well, good luck with your job search in Japan and do yourself and the English students in Japan a favor and stay as far away as possible from EC.

John Russell"

The days of the language circuit “gravy train” in Japan are well and truly over.

If you are considering do a brief stint in Japan, as a treat after your graduation, as a mid-career long service leave break, or as a professional long-term language instructor, then please, if reasonable work conditions or fair pay are your requirements, forget Japan entirely.

Some how, some way, over the years, mafia style language companies, selling bulk lessons in advance, and then money laundering a fair percentage of those proceeds, before declaring bankruptcy, have essentially gutted what once was a buoyant industry.

For the previous major player, it was a rather simple scam – bulk selling months of lessons in advance, so that enormous profits in the interim were reported, attracting investors, and attracting financiers. On the surface, the big eikaiwa looked like cash cows, and won the confidence of all, with an image of sustainability having been successfully projected, by showing glowing short term financial reports.

But that was until the schools filled up, the market reached saturation point, and students actually started taking their lessons, which of course were sold at non-profitable, non-sustainable rates. Complaints from students unable to book lessons went through the roof, individual schools profits plummeted, and due to activities currently under investigation, no cash reserves could be found to support the schools through any crisis.

That was the Nova Corporation story.

The end result – salaries and work conditions that are abysmal, with no job security on offer whatsoever.

There is now a new kid on the block – G STRING – which is trying its dandiest to pull of what the old Nova did, which was essentially to take as much money in advance as possible (by taking money in advance from consumers), siphon as much of it off as possible (now under investigation), and then deal with the reality of the “model built for implosion” later.

The headaches for G STRING. (a) The Japanese government, under enormous consumer pressure finally had to step in – the crude, rude and dishonest sales practises of the past are now under much greater scrutiny (b) the Japanese consumers are much more wary, and discerning, with regards to how they spend their yen, and who they trust to be the custodians of their yen, and (c) instructors themselves are not as gullible as they were previously – they know, what eikaiwa operators really are, what makes them tick, and how close to the wind they actually sail.

G STRING is in the process of dealing with what has been a very rude shock – it has discovered that the goose that lays the golden egg is dead – the consumers have woken up, and thus, there is no more language land of milk and honey, there will be no rebirth of Nova Corporation, and now, of course, they expect the instructors to pay for it.

Thus, job security and conditions are now worse than ever (and yes, many find that difficult to believe – how could they be any worse?).

There is only one solution – close eikaiwa bandits, like G STRING down, and if you must go to Japan, do not, in a pink fit, or in a pink bunny suit, consider working for an eikaiwa chain to begin with.

Eikaiwa are the reason there is no job security in the language industry in Japan. Eikaiwa are the reason work conditions are so appalling. You sleep with dogs, then, well, expect to wake up with fleas.

short sighted fool?
nope im someone that gets on with his job while i get paid for it and as soon as the money stops will go home to other things, not sit around sapping my savings and crying about how unfair it all is. youre losers plain and simple, cant survive in your own countries. nova, gcom, whatever is and also been a shithole. man up and admit your working there coz its easy to get in.

Not short shighted? You're right. You can see just as well that everyone is currently getting shafted and it will continue. The difference is that as long as you get your paycheck you don't give a shit what happens to anyone else. I wouldn't like to work with you.

You can run home when things go to shit. Have you ever thought about the people that actually have established lives in this country? How about the students? These people have a lot riding on G.comm working and it isn't going to unless people force management to stop shooting themselves in the foot.

Probably won't happend but trying is better than sitting around until it all goes to shit.

This was put up recently so maybe a few people missed it?
Scary as it seems (even worse than NOVA now) I don't doubt that it's all 100% true.

Teachers at EC, G.com NOVA and other large eikaiwa are oranges to be squeezed dry then discarded.2

He sounds like a pathetic loser, fair enough.

But obviously all you who are slagging him off here, and releasing your pent up frustration, are doing so because you never had the guts to stand up to him in the past. What's changed now?

Even if you did know which train he took, you'd do nothing.

What makes you REALLY angry is your own weakness - you NEVER stood up to the Mighty John Lukasic.

Enjoy gnawing, perpetually, pointlessly, at your own spinelessness,

or forget about it, forgive Lukasic, and get on with your lives.

That is so cool. I wish I'd of thought of that.

When they sent me a letter, I only got offered 280,000, and I sent a letter back, saying thanks, but I'm not interested.

I didn't think to not reply. Classic, dude! Respect!