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| What's the worst English school/company? |
| Interact |
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9% |
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| ZIAC |
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36% |
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| NOVA |
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9% |
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| AEON |
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9% |
[ 1 ] |
| Other, Please state |
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27% |
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| GEOS |
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9% |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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 Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: Schools |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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By the way that means bad experience but also what you have heard compared with other places. Like was it professional or was it good pay or what about holidays and insurance? If you like you can put some comments.  |
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seanmcginty
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Gotta be Smith's.
Company motto: Why work for one of the big 4 with a guaranteed salary, benefits and apartment when you can pay us $15,000 to teach English in Japan unencumbered by any of those things? |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: |
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Gotta be Smith's.
Company motto: Why work for one of the big 4 with a guaranteed salary, benefits and apartment when you can pay us $15,000 to teach English in Japan unencumbered by any of those things? |
Where can I sign? |
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harlemknight
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how GEOS manages to survive as a company never ceases to amaze me. just a bunch of unskilled arselickers running things, who think the way to operate a business is to lie to, cheat and steal from staff, the government, and customers.
(I'm not bitter) |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: |
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Hmm...ZIAC still the worst  but what are the others I wonder? Oh, ok one is Smith's. 
Anymore? |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| And big surprise is NOVA has no votes! at the time of writing |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| And big surprise is NOVA has no votes! at the time of writing |
4000 teachers can't be that stupid to work for a lemon. I can tell you more positives about NOVA than negatives.
The company's name is Interac by the way. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| Like a Rolling Stone wrote: |
| By the way that means bad experience but also what you have heard compared with other places. Like was it professional or was it good pay or what about holidays and insurance? If you like you can put some comments. |
Rolling Stone,
how do off the boat teachers at NOVA or GEOS with a BA and no CELTA or certification know what is professional or not?
Teachers are professional by their training and experience, not schools. Schools are well-managed or badly managed. Bosses are incompetent etc.
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| Like a Rolling Stone wrote: |
| And big surprise is NOVA has no votes! at the time of writing |
4000 teachers can't be that stupid to work for a lemon. I can tell you more positives about NOVA than negatives.
The company's name is Interac by the way. |
Oh thanks Paul, yes I did know that actually but fogot it when I was typing it. I don't know if you can edit the poll but I think people know what I mean anyway. |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| Like a Rolling Stone wrote: |
| By the way that means bad experience but also what you have heard compared with other places. Like was it professional or was it good pay or what about holidays and insurance? If you like you can put some comments. |
Rolling Stone,
how do eikaiwa teachers with a BA and no CELTA or certification know what is professional.
Teachers are professional, not schools. Schools are well-managed or badly managed. |
i think a school can be professional if the manager is professional or if the school is badly managed then maybe it wouldn't be professional. I think you can ask if the school is professinal. Maybe you being pedantic. Are you being pedantic? |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Lots of people are coming to Japan at the moment. Welcome
Do you have any votes for the worst school in Japan? We can work wiht you and inform people  |
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luckyloser700
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| I can't figure out which company is the worst, but the best teachers working for those companies probably aren't the ones coming to this forum and bitching incessantly about the raw deals that the big companies are giving their teachers. I'm not saying criticism of the big companies is bad or unwarranted, but too much of it gives those thinking about coming here to work the idea that most ESL teachers in Japan are a bunch of overworked, underpaid, bitter arseholes made that way by the companies they work for. If even one person with a lot of potential to become a good teacher is discouraged from coming here by the constant negativity posted here, that's a shame. |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes I have a positive poll too and it is for the best schools. I want to keep a good balance. Please check my other poll |
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