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southofreality · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 579 Location: Tokyo

If you do come, start applying and interviewing with every company you can right away. Don't wait. When NOVA goes under, most, if not all available jobs in eikaiwa will disappear fast. Might even be prudent to take a couple of sick days right away so that you can interview with other schools. Maybe applying online or sending interest e-mails to some of these places before you get on a plane would be a good idea. Couldn't hurt.

Good luck!

drifter13 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 124 Location: Fujisawa

sallycat · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 303 Location: behind you. BOO!

yamanote senbei · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 435

According to the information I have, all union members were paid in full yesterday, regardless of their location.

piinku · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Japan

My Nova friends in the city got an announcement that they would be paid Tuesday. I wasn't really that surprised, I'm an ALT and am paid by the government and my pay is delayed until Tuesday too, along with all the other Japanese teachers I work with. Hopefully things work out and they get paid Tuesday, and this doesn't happen regularly.

drifter13 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 124 Location: Fujisawa

sallycat · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 303 Location: behind you. BOO!

in the case of the 15th falling on a weekend, nova has always paid before the weekend.
it is now saying titled instructors won't be paid until wednesday.

you should not be in any doubt about the seriousness of what is happening.

Hoser · Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Toronto, Canada

Yes I must admit to feeling a little antsy about the whole thing. I'm doing four days of overtime this month-I hope I get a paycheck next month! I was actually thinking of quiting and just taking 6 months off or so and just concentrate on studying Japanese-but of course it would be nice to be able to get a job after that time which I might not be able to do with a sudden influx of 5000 teachers into the job market! Perhaps it would be a good idea to start using up those vacation days while I still can...

drifter13 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 124 Location: Fujisawa

southofreality · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 579 Location: Tokyo

Check out the forums at GaijinPot. There are several there who claim to work for NOVA now and are giving quite a lot of 'inside' information. Apparently many have jumped ship in the last week or two and have found new employment.

http://www.gaijinpot.com/bb/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Are they the lemmings · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

Temujin · Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 90 Location: Osaka

Today the titled instructors got their pay delayed for the 3rd time running. I've heard from reliable sources that next week will be crunch time. Forget closing 200 branches, next week could be game over. Everyone is being told to get their plan B ready. This is it.

Gautsch · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Toyota, Japan

Hoser · Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Toronto, Canada

They get paid on Tuesday now. Apparently the pay shortage was caused by having to give refunds to students last month. "Apparently" they're good for next month. I've heard that there's going to be a big meeting on Tuesday to decide what to do. Let me tell you, working today when we didnt know if we were going to be paid was absolutely shit and demoralizing. Nothing worse than listening to those fucking people talking about talking hula dancing than listening to them talking about hula dancing and not getting paid for it. Our branch was on the verge of topatsuing until Tuesday when things got straightened out-but we've decided to work. It's gonna be absolute shit but I think NOVA will last for a couple of more months at least-especially if they get an infusion of cash and restructure. That should be enough time for me to get my holidays used up and get the hell out of there.