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[PAULH]

[wolfman]

[wolfman]

[PAULH]

[wolfman]

[senza_vavoom]

I DEFINITELY agree with the majority of people here. I believe that you seem to be oversensitive over something that is ultimately nothing. Either you have never been employed before by corporations, but you don't seem to understand regular business in general.

Here's why :

1) " On the website, it listed the entire week for interviews. It was very vague so I took a chance in buying a plane ticket to Mexico to visit my dad. "

How can they possibly be vague with a list of the entire week for interviews? Do you REALLY think that AEON ( a large corporation ) would publish online, a list of dates that are " vague " to PURPOSELY confuse over thousands of applicants?

2) " 5 DAYS before the interview (when I was in Mexico), the contacted me via e-mail and told me that I MUST be at the interviews on Sunday or else I would not be considered for hire (I was due back on Tuesday). "

Umm...this is MANDATORY. They do contact you a few days before the interview. In fact, they contact you TWICE before your interview date....so why would you be surprised at this? Plus, in order for them to actually give you reminders of the impending interview, you would have had to accept the interview dates in the first place.....which leads me to think that you accepted interview dates that you described as " vague " ????

3) " When I was at the interview, the recruiters gave me and my girlfriend the distinct impression that they did not care about us as people....only as employees. "

YOU are an employee - NOT even an employee technically - but PROSPECTIVE employees. The last time I checked, in every single country, when you want a job, you are NOT in the position to demand how they should treat you at the INTERVIEW. Remember, you are the beggar in this situation.

4) " For example, when I went into my personal interview, I mentioned that I had bought an EXTRA plane ticket to see them. The recuiters response was simply to smile and bob her head up and down.......no 'wow, that was very nice of you' or even 'thank you for telling me that'....a simple blank stare with a grin. "

Why does she have to care? She was probably thinking, " OMG - this guy is so dense. Why is he talking to me about an extra ticket that he bought blah blah blah? " In fact, she was probably thinking, " Hmm...maybe he wouldn't have had to buy a ticket in the first place if he NEVER left the country during the interview sessions! "

5) " After all of the process, they offered me a job in which I wrote back giving them explicit reasons why I did not want to work for them. "

This is so dramatic and UNECESSARY in the business world. In fact, they didn't even hire you yet completely and you didn't even work one day's job. Why write a long letter to gripe about what you DID NOT like about them?

[Tottori-Dood]

Mod Edit

Been working here in West Japan and so far my AEON experience has been what I expected and FAR FAR better. Not only do they treat me like a "human being" but the staff at my school go out of their way to help me, and be friends with me - almost to the point of going overboard.

Everyone I trained with are being treated really well too. Everyone so far that I have met in AEON west Japan - from the big bosses up at head office down to the part time staff that hand out flyers - have been more polite, and helpful, to me then I ever remember ANYONE being to me where I'm from.

I get paid more then any employees of the other "big 4" chains. My schedule is such that I work about 3 hours a day (except friday and saturday). I get 2 days off a week (might as well be 5 days off). I have medical coverage.

Good luck at NOVA bro, enjoy your "Japan experience" lol.

[wolfman]

[Tottori-Dood]

[PAULH]

[guest of Japan]

Tottori dood is benefiting from the national health care fiasco. More than a year ago and he would have been at work for the full 8 hours with a lot more duties. Studying Japanese at work used to be very frowned upon by AEON.

[Tottori-Dood]

[guest of Japan]

My point is that the free time you have now between classes was not considered free time a year ago. Now AEON employees are understood to be part time by the corporation in order to be exempt from paying shakai hoken. Before, all employees were considered full time and as such were required to be at work all day regardless of who the management was, and were expected to be doing AEON work at all times. In order to escape the recently enforced law AEON has had to give up some control over its employees.

You are right that management makes a huge difference in quality of life for workers. You are very lucky to have management that treats you well. I also had the same experience, but there really are a lot of bad managers, assistant managers, and head teachers who do make life miserable in AEON. I know an emergency teacher who had an extremely terrible stint at a school because he looked like the ex-boyfriend of a head teacher. This is a seasoned teacher who had the company behind him and he still found a school to be complete torture.

An important thing to keep in mind when working at AEON or many other English teaching companies is that the Japanese revenue producers or clients will always take precedence over the foreign English teacher. If things are going well with students or clients and the management is good, then things will be rosy, but if there is a bit of bad luck thrown into the mix the foreign English teacher will indeed find him/herself in an untenable situation.

I'm glad you are in a good situation and you should just consider yourself lucky. Others are not in good situations and it is not alway their fault.

[Willy_In_Japan]

[shikushiku-boy]

Some Mod Edit have a bad experience in Japan. On the other hand,
some Mod Edit have a wonderful time.