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rxk22 · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 1629

LSK, didn't work for Sahne's, but for a different crappy eikaiwa. Seems about the same situation wise. Poor quality teaching materials, no help from corp, lying about 'teaching concepts', and so on.

LongShiKong · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 1082 Location: China

The reason Dave's gets away with hosting forums that dis their clients (advertisers) is that the more negative such threads are, generally the less substance they contain and the less they influence someone's decision. I was considering Disney English until at last I located one comment with any substantive criticism. The fact the recruiter who called me would neither confirm nor deny what I'd read on that post influenced my decision to look elsewhere. Had I read what I'd posted now about Shane, I would've looked elsewhere. So, read my post... before the powers that be delete it too. Wink

If you like, I can provide you a link for one such thread where the majority of forum members actually side with a Shane DoS (defending another Shane) rather than the ranting OP on one such thread.

Mrguay84 · Joined: 03 Dec 2009 Posts: 125

LongShiKong · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 1082 Location: China

littleleech · Joined: 10 May 2010 Posts: 5

No offense guys, but some of you are just whining unnecessarily.

I worked at Shane for 2 years (2010-2012). During that time they underwent a lot of changes, all of them for the better. Directors of study changed, management changed, teachers changed. Contracts changed. Even the textbooks changed (the adult ones, anyway).

Standby is a thing of the past, as is cover unless you volunteer for it, in which case you will get 15000 yen per day.

Yeah, truth be told they may not be the best place to teach in terms of advancing your career prospects but they are certainly a good place to start or just get yourself a foothold in Japan (all I was after).

In the beginning I had a lot of complaints about the place - seems everyone does initially, then you just kind of get into the swing of it. Don't be entitled about it. I'm not saying just lay down and take whatever they give you, but honestly, it isn't a hard job.

The worst thing - in my opinion - is the hours, but that's pretty much just something you have to accept if you want to work in Japan as an EFL teacher, unless you work for GABA and are shit hot. And some of the Japanese staff can be witches - they can also be extremely friendly, lovely people. It's luck of the draw, like any job.

But honestly, I don't think there's been a better time to join than now. People whinge a lot about Shane, but I look back and I'm entirely grateful for the experience - there were bumps, of course, there always are, but overall being with Shane allowed me to live in Tokyo and have the best year of my life. Nuff said.

Sour Grape · Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 241

mushroomyakuza · Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 140

If you call in sick, you don't get paid for the day. Which sucks. But as far as I'm aware they always have teachers on standby who do admin stuff when not called out to various schools. If they don't have enough teachers, I don't know. It's likely they'd ask for a doctor's note as well, even for one day.

Pitarou · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1116 Location: Narita, Japan

It's more than a year since I left Shane so I might be out of date about this, but I did at least read the teachers' manual.

rxk22 · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 1629

I think with how the economy is in Japan, coupled with the overall Japanese attitude in learning English. I don't think that it is surprising that all the big eikaiwas are not good to work for.