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Global English School, Matsusaka, Japan Warning:WATCH OUT!!!
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Keith_Alan_W
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 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: Global English School, Matsusaka, Japan Warning:WATCH OUT!!! |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:56 am Post subject: |
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Keith
According to Japanese labor law if you have signed a contract and are already formally employed she can not summarily fire you on the spot. She must either give you 30 days notice or 30 days pay. She can not fire you for wearing cords. You could sue for one months severance pay but it may be difficult if she said you were on probation.
Legally speaking if you are on a tourist visa you dont have a leg to stand on and are actually breaking Japanese immigration laws by working without a visa. By law you should not be working until you have a signed contract and your application has been approved by immigration in Nagoya. It takes two to tango.
My advice would be to contact the labor standards office or a teachers union and lay a complaint.
http://www.generalunion.org or the union rep in Nagoya. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:59 am Post subject: Re: Global English School, Matsusaka, Japan Warning:WATCH OU |
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| I I want to sue her for 1 years wages, does anyone know if this is possible, and how I might go about doing it? Does anyone know of any jobs that are available in the Mie area? I wish I'd stayed in Germany! ??. |
Impossible. You could file a claim for 30 days severance pay and thats it. This is not the US where people can sue for compensatory damages.
Good luck doing it on a tourist visa though.
PS the visa wont be waiting for you, you are sent a certificate of eligibility by the embassy which you then exchange for a working visa at any embassy, consulate or immigration office. You cant get a work visa without aCOE being issued first. No COE, no right to work in Japan.
She led you up the garden path here mate. |
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Keith_Alan_W
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alexrocks
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| Maybe one of the students told the mistaken identity story to Kojima-san, who then overreacted and freaked out. Then, rather than directly fire you, perhaps she wanted to frustrate you so much that you would quit on your own. That's my guess, but who knows? |
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PAULH
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1) Upon our first meeting I wasn't interested in seeing the school only in finding a place to sleep as I just got off the plane from Germany and was extremely jet lagged. |
Its too be expected that after a 12 hour flight you will be tired and jetlagged.. No one works the day after a long flight like that.
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| 2) GES is run by one person and there is no chain of command act as a check and balance to the whims of the owner (i.e. an un-Japanese structure). |
Many small companies have one owner operator. Its not a democracy. She is paying your wages and has say over whether you stay there or not. You are in no position to pick and choose your boss(es). Theres nothing un-Japanese about being an owner operator, I have worked for several.
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| 3) Durring my observations I learned absolutely nothing and left the "What did you learn from this lesson?" section blank on the forms I filled out. (I actually did learn that the school has very little idea about what a "teaching method" is, but I didn't write that down). |
If all else fails, LIE. welcome to honne and tatemae. Maybe you shouldnt have been so blunt, you were the one looking for a paycheck and you were rubbing their nose in it on the first day. Just smile sweetly and sound enthusiastic. Dont look a gift horse in the mouth.
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| 4) The school seemed to have a preference for inexperienced teachers that needed to be taken care of and I am very experienced and independent. |
That goes for about 90% of language schools in Japan. they are businesses, not bastions of education and learning. perhaps you were expecting too much. The same inexperiences teachers who seemed so happy and had no complaints, right? Most schools want people who are easy to manage and won't rock the boat.
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| 5) The person who hired me said it was ok for me to work outside of the school, so long as I didn't take customers away from GES. Knowing this, I told Kojima-san I hoped to do some freelance work for the American Management Association in Tokyo on my days off. |
Never EVER tell employers what you will do in your days off. Dont tell them more than they need to know, and even more dont rub their nose in it that you will work other jobs, as it implies they are not paying you enough. Sounds like you tried to one-up her as well.
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| 6) Durring one of my observation lessons I was required to play a game where I told 2 truths and a lie. The students had to vote on which story they thought was lie. To make things interesting, I told them of my experience of spending three days in jail in Northern Ontario because I was suspected of being an American bank robber. (It was a case of mistaken identity if your wondering.) |
This, my friend, is SUICIDE. Do not even mention or breathe involvement in criminal activity or being arrested. Students are naive and will think they are in class with a convicted felon. Dont underestimate students propensity for gullibility and naivete.
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| What do you guys think. Is this enough to be fired? |
No I think you simply hung yourself with your own rope. No need to fire you when you self-destructed all by yourself.
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PAULH
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| Keith_Alan_W wrote: |
1) Upon our first meeting I wasn't interested in seeing the school only in finding a place to sleep as I just got off the plane from Germany and was extremely jet lagged. |
Its too be expected that after a 12 hour flight you will be tired and jetlagged.. No one works the day after a long flight like that.
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| 2) GES is run by one person and there is no chain of command act as a check and balance to the whims of the owner (i.e. an un-Japanese structure). |
Many small companies have one owner operator. Its not a democarcy. She is paying your wages and has say over whether you stay there or not. You are in no position to choose your bosses. Theres nothing un-japanese about being an owner operator, I have worked for several.
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| 3) Durring my observations I learned absolutely nothing and left the "What did you learn from this lesson?" section blank on the forms I filled out. (I actually did learn that the school has very little idea about what a "teaching method" is, but I didn't write that down). |
If all else fails, LIE. welcome to honne and tatemae.
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| 4) The school seemed to have a preference for inexperienced teachers that needed to be taken care of and I am very experienced and independent. |
That goes for about 90% of language schools in Japan. they are businesses, not bastions of education and learning. perhaps you were expecting too much.
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| 5) The person who hired me said it was ok for me to work outside of the school, so long as I didn't take customers away from GES. Knowing this, I told Kojima-san I hoped to do some freelance work for the American Management Association in Tokyo on my days off. |
Never EVER tell employers what you will do in your days off. Dont tell them more than they need to know, and even more dont rub their nose in it, as it implies they are not paying you enough. Sounds like you tried to one-up her as well.
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| 6) Durring one of my observation lessons I was required to play a game where I told 2 truths and a lie. The students had to vote on which story they thought was lie. To make things interesting, I told them of my experience of spending three days in jail in Northern Ontario because I was suspected of being an American bank robber. (It was a case of mistaken identity if your wondering.) |
This, my friend, is SUICIDE. Do not even mention or breathe involvement in criminal activity or being arrested. Students are naive and will think they are in class with a convicted felon. Dont underestimate students gullibility and naivete.
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| What do you guys think. Is this enough to be fired? |
No I think you simply hung yourself with your own rope. No need to fire you when you self-destructed all by yourself.
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