Rumor mill is starting to buzz and I have heard a lot of things...
1. Gaiji staff are all gone at the end of this month. They have all been asked to resign and as far as I know March 31st will be their last day. From April 1st the foreign staff have no support in Head Office... We are in trouble with accomodation, bad luck... We have a problem with our pay, try and fend for yourself... I heard about this a couple of weeks back, but was sworn to secrecy... Now however, it is already out in Letsjapan forums, so now I can confirm the truth in it...
2. More standby... Thats right, you heard (read) correctly... More instructors are being put on standby, to come back, who knows when... Those of us in the branches already know the precarious position that student reservations are in... Students try to reserve and there is a straight purple screen visible, meaning no reservations are possible... This will mean that students can continue to not book lessons. If this is the case, then the earlier faxes about a couple of cancelled lessons through the company causing the company to fail show themselves to be a heaping pile of crap...
There are more things on the Japanese side about pay cuts and the fact that GComm can't borrow money anymore, but all of these are things that have recently been on Letsjapan... Thats not where I have heard them, but they are starting to get some things right... Has anyone heard anything else? Any other rumors doing the rounds? Let me know... Good luck... Let's hope you are not all going on standby...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
GComm NOVA Instructor recovering nicely at home...
Well, as expected I had quite a bit to drink and I could do things like go to a restaurant for dinner, enjoy St. Patrick's Day even though I am not Irish, but then neither was anyone else in Harajuku for the parade... I would like to thank the well wishers and also thank, but in a more sarcastic manner, the people who tried to give me advice on how to live my life... Of course I am not stupid enough to spend the whole lot in a weekend... I did however manage to spend quite a bit of money :) and I was extremely happy with my weekend. Now, of course I am just planning when to put it all into US dollars...
As far as work goes, not a great deal has changed... Although last week, I heard the bosses come in patting themselves on the back saying that in our area everyone has been allocated, there is no-one left on standby... This means that at least 2 people that I know of personally have been sacked... They had been presented with letters saying "Please transfer to Kyushu/Fukui/Toyama or you will lose your job". They thought that this was silly seeing as they live with their families and have commitments in the Tokyo area, but as GComm sees them as numbers and not people, then none of that mattered... So now they are sacked... Don't know what their plans are... I hope they are OK...
Anyone else get sacked off standby recently? If you are reading this then I wish you all the best... Take care, and good luck...
As far as work goes, not a great deal has changed... Although last week, I heard the bosses come in patting themselves on the back saying that in our area everyone has been allocated, there is no-one left on standby... This means that at least 2 people that I know of personally have been sacked... They had been presented with letters saying "Please transfer to Kyushu/Fukui/Toyama or you will lose your job". They thought that this was silly seeing as they live with their families and have commitments in the Tokyo area, but as GComm sees them as numbers and not people, then none of that mattered... So now they are sacked... Don't know what their plans are... I hope they are OK...
Anyone else get sacked off standby recently? If you are reading this then I wish you all the best... Take care, and good luck...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
GComm NOVA instructors getting paid again! Including me!
Thats right all! You read it here first! Assuming all goes well by tomorrow I will be rich and I am planning to enjoy most of the money in various izakayas and bars in the Tokyo area on that night... If it is all gone by Thursday, that's OK... Friday is payday, we hope, and I will have money again... The feeling of not being broke all my life is awesome... I hope that everyone else gets their money in a timely manner... Good luck guys...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
NOVA Instructors get paid!!!!
OK guys, well I haven't checked my account, and I haven't heard from anyone personally, but an Anonymous comment to this blog has said that they got paid their past salary... They got the money owed to them... This is the best news since... ever!!! Has anyone else here been paid??? I don't think I have yet as they haven't sent me back a statement to say I would be, which seems to be the pattern... Let everyone know if you got paid!!!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
GComm Reprogramming NOVA instructors...
At the end of last week, i.e. Thursday and Friday, training sessions, referred to as "Refresher" training sessions took place... These sessions, according to all reports were less to do with refreshing anything and more to do with learning the EC company philosophy...
It involves things like; smiling is the most important thing in the world, we need a sense of responsibility, an unbiased look at the world, and some incomprehensible rubbish about being like the sun... The first session was in Funabashi Minamiguchi on the Thursday and the second session took place at the Ginza head office... They were run by a Mr. Yamaya... The same man who, until now, had organized EC OJT and other training sessions and the man whose reputation as a trainer is less than sterling... According to everything I have heard, he did himself no favors in these training sessions, giving the first group about a 1 hour smiling and saying "hello" practice session...
People have said that he was "unprepared", "amateurish while telling us how to be professional", and "full of crap"... As far as I know, no-one died in any of these training sessions which is the only positive I can see coming from them... He was talking to some very experienced instructors e.g. 12+ years in NOVA like they were brand new... From all reports the rooms for the first two sessions were filled with BTs and ATs and even one AAM in the second session... Yet they were treated like people who had never stepped in a classroom before... Apparently most left angry and/or slightly amused by the whole thing...
Can anyone here report on what the sessions were like? Did you enjoy the feeling of being patronized???
It involves things like; smiling is the most important thing in the world, we need a sense of responsibility, an unbiased look at the world, and some incomprehensible rubbish about being like the sun... The first session was in Funabashi Minamiguchi on the Thursday and the second session took place at the Ginza head office... They were run by a Mr. Yamaya... The same man who, until now, had organized EC OJT and other training sessions and the man whose reputation as a trainer is less than sterling... According to everything I have heard, he did himself no favors in these training sessions, giving the first group about a 1 hour smiling and saying "hello" practice session...
People have said that he was "unprepared", "amateurish while telling us how to be professional", and "full of crap"... As far as I know, no-one died in any of these training sessions which is the only positive I can see coming from them... He was talking to some very experienced instructors e.g. 12+ years in NOVA like they were brand new... From all reports the rooms for the first two sessions were filled with BTs and ATs and even one AAM in the second session... Yet they were treated like people who had never stepped in a classroom before... Apparently most left angry and/or slightly amused by the whole thing...
Can anyone here report on what the sessions were like? Did you enjoy the feeling of being patronized???
Friday, February 22, 2008
NOVA UNPAID SALARY Paperwork is in!
Hey all... I got my paperwork... I will fill it all out tomorrow... and will sort it soon...
Soon it will be time to.....
Hope everyone else has their stuff if not... Contact the Trustees ASAP!!!!
Soon it will be time to.....
Hope everyone else has their stuff if not... Contact the Trustees ASAP!!!!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Paperwork for unpaid NOVA wages coming in...
Hey all... I am sure those of you in Japan may have heard but those of you far away might not have...
Some people (not me. of course) have received the final pieces of paperwork needed to claim past pay... I am not sure, but have been led to believe that the paperwork includes all the information on what to do regarding applying for it... I am hearing once everything is done, it will be a month until we see money in accounts, but I think that is a very optimistic number... If it's true, March will end with a big bang for all of us...
There are detailed instructions for those O/S and they have things like the leaving the country tax business and all that (if you are not resident in Japan, your income tax jumps to about 20%)... For people who worked to the end of business (October 26) it appears you will get 80% of all of September and October up to the 26th... The October period is causing confusion, so I will have to wait until I can verify what it will be...
I hope you all get your paperwork in a quick fashion... I can't emphasize enough, that if you have moved, you need to tell the trustees that you have and give them your new info... Don't let your chance slip...
Some people (not me. of course) have received the final pieces of paperwork needed to claim past pay... I am not sure, but have been led to believe that the paperwork includes all the information on what to do regarding applying for it... I am hearing once everything is done, it will be a month until we see money in accounts, but I think that is a very optimistic number... If it's true, March will end with a big bang for all of us...
There are detailed instructions for those O/S and they have things like the leaving the country tax business and all that (if you are not resident in Japan, your income tax jumps to about 20%)... For people who worked to the end of business (October 26) it appears you will get 80% of all of September and October up to the 26th... The October period is causing confusion, so I will have to wait until I can verify what it will be...
I hope you all get your paperwork in a quick fashion... I can't emphasize enough, that if you have moved, you need to tell the trustees that you have and give them your new info... Don't let your chance slip...
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