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J-kun
Joined: 13 Mar 2004
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Location: The Hell of Pachinko
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I thought this was going to be a thread about all the things you find to complain about at Aeon AFTER you've been working there a while. This jackass didn't even take the job. 
Sure, there are legit things to bitch about, but Aeon isn't a bad company. Outside of JET, I don't think there's a better first job in Japan.
One question for the OP: You mentioned you and your gf were looking to come to japan together. Did Aeon offer you both jobs at the same school, or in the same town? If so, they bent over backwards for you two, and you're jerks for turning them down. |
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luckyloser700
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: An AEON vent-session |
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J-kun, this guy was probably making this up or exaggerating. His statements don't make much sense. For example:
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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. |
Did she bob her head up and down and smile or just give a simple blank stare with a grin? The first action seems at least somewhat animated while the second doesn't. Which situation was it? And, if she did bob (OP probably meant nod here) her head and smile, how did the OP know it wasn't her way of subtly expressing regret that things were difficult for him.
And, anyway, he probably could have "upgraded" his return ticket to return home early for a fee rather than buy a new one.
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| 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. Their response was an ultimatum!! |
It seems like he outright refused the job. He gave explicit reasons for not wanting to work for them. Most companies would probably send him a letter (or email) at that point saying "Well, thanks for applying anyway" or do nothing further. If AEON did offer him an "ulitimatum," I think the people at AEON are actually quite considerate and/or must have really thought he was a worthy applicant. I mean, they did care enough to still offer him the job after he said that he didn't want to work for them, didn't they? That's quite an effort on the part of the folks at AEON. I'd say they must have been pretty interested in him after all. Wonder why he thought they weren't.
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| And if you don't believe me, I continued to ask other people who had taught in Japan (or worked for AEON) and looked more at these forums.......many voices are quick to pipe up to agree. |
Aren't people who make statements like this usually people who tend to stretch the truth or even make stories up and try to pass them off as truths?
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| 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. |
Even if the AEON recruiters seemed less than interested in him, it could've been the fact that he applied with his girlfriend. Before the group interview with AEON every applicant is provided a list of AEON policies and working conditions that he/she must read and bring with him/her to the interview. One part of this list states that it is nearly impossible for married couples, or just couples in general, to be placed in the same town or even in towns near each other and that even if same-city placement can be done, each partner will be responsible for his/her own apartment and rent. The latter point may have seemed acceptable to the OP, but the former had to have made it seemed like the cards were stacked against him in the first place. Of course, not being placed anywhere near each other may have been acceptable to both he and his girlfriend, but it's doubtful. At the end of that list there is a request that each applicant thoroughly read all of the information written on that list and carefully consider whether or not AEON is the place that person really wants to work. Do you really think he spent money on an extra plane ticket to go to an interview with a company that most likely wouldn't provide he and his girlfriend with the opportunity work and live close enough to maintain their relationship?
It's all pretty fishy. |
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dudelebow
Joined: 01 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| aeon is a great job if you don't mind ridiculous rules being imposed upon you in the name of professionalism. it's a warm and cozy place to work if you don't mind accepting blame for things that go wrong that are not your fault. it's a fantastic job if you love to embarrass yourself and your students by pressuring them to buy self-study materials that they don't need and are not effective. aeon is a great set up if you relish the opportunity to call your students at home when they are absent from class to ask them where they were. aeon is a sweet gig if you don't mind brainwashed foreign training staff watching you like human androids with a bionic security camera in their eye watching and reporting your every move to hq. great place to be if being documented for crossing your legs or other petty things is no big woop for you. a dream job if being told to worship the president of aeon and show your fear of him is your kind of religion. last of all, aeon is a fabulous place to work if you don't care about job security and being treated equally and fairly by branch staff and hq. aeon is great guys....no worries, no problems. if you don't mind a few things here and there. |
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mrjohndub
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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Location: Saitama, Japan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| What sort of rules do you speak of, specifically? |
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luckyloser700
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: Re: Let this post drop |
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| PolishZeus wrote: |
I regret ever having mentioned my experience and posting on here. |
Mission accomplished.  |
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nickelgoat
Joined: 26 Jan 2006
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Location: Where in the world is nickelgoat?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: |
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J-kun
Joined: 13 Mar 2004
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Location: The Hell of Pachinko
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| dudelebow wrote: |
| aeon is a great job if you don't mind ridiculous rules being imposed upon you in the name of professionalism. it's a warm and cozy place to work if you don't mind accepting blame for things that go wrong that are not your fault. it's a fantastic job if you love to embarrass yourself and your students by pressuring them to buy self-study materials that they don't need and are not effective. aeon is a great set up if you relish the opportunity to call your students at home when they are absent from class to ask them where they were. aeon is a sweet gig if you don't mind brainwashed foreign training staff watching you like human androids with a bionic security camera in their eye watching and reporting your every move to hq. great place to be if being documented for crossing your legs or other petty things is no big woop for you. a dream job if being told to worship the president of aeon and show your fear of him is your kind of religion. last of all, aeon is a fabulous place to work if you don't care about job security and being treated equally and fairly by branch staff and hq. aeon is great guys....no worries, no problems. if you don't mind a few things here and there. |
Yikes! ... Well, everyone has there own take on things, don't they? You may have just been stuck at the branch school from heck. Still, some of the things you mention like, "accepting blame for things that go wrong that are not your fault," are just Japan. I think you'd find similar rules at any of the big chains. |
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luckyloser700
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| J-kun wrote: |
| Still, some of the things you mention like, "accepting blame for things that go wrong that are not your fault," are just Japan. I think you'd find similar rules at any of the big chains. |
Right. I had to apologize to my boss at the BOE for getting violently ill, going to the hospital, and not being able to teach classes for a day. And then I had to formally apologize to the principal and the students of the school I was supposed to teach at because I missed their monthly English lesson. |
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