How is INTERAC These Days?

[nullpointer]

Damn. That leech lama been nagging me too.

Leech lama? Never heard of it. What's next? Laden swallows?

[hodensaft]

I'm an officer in the union mentioned previously in this thread.

Our top priorities at the moment are obtaining, in no particular order, full pay throughout the calendar year, proper health insurance, and the legally mandated number of paid holidays. Many Interac ALTs only receive their full 250,000Y monthly salary 8 months out of the year. In August, only 60% is paid (legal, as far as we can tell, even if it is a kick in the teeth), and employees who joined beginning in the spring of 2004 receive only 75% in December (less legal, it's on our list of demands).

Where it gets real shady is in March and April, at the end and beginning of the school year. Although the school year technically runs from April 1st - March 31st (same as the fiscal year), schools are generally not in session for the last week of March or the first few days of April. The company has taken advantage of this and written what we refer to as "artificial gaps" into contracts. Read the effective dates of your contract carefully. If it's valid from April 1st - March 31st in any given year, then you've got one of the (comparatively) above-board contracts. If, on the other hand, your contract doesn't begin until around April 5th, and ends on or around March 24th, complain.

The effects of this tactic are twofold. First, your monthly salary for March and April will be prorated for the number of days you are actually an employee. Second, the company will use the one-and-a-half week gap in employment to claim that you have not been continuously employed. Making such a claim enables the company to deny you the requisite number of paid holidays (nenkyu), and sets you on less solid ground should you ever want to make an unfair dismissal (this includes non-renewal, in most interpretations of the law) case in the future.

Any current or prospective employees are more than welcome to PM me with requests for more information.

[AssKissinger]

Good work, hodensaft. God bless you. Make those crooked cunts pay what's fair! I interviewed with them once I could not believe the shit they were selling. What those corporate cocks really need is a straight forward beatdown.

[Currawong]

Hmm...I might just fill in that Selti form and see what happens. At least it would mean I'd end up working near home.

Someone linked to that llama image. NFI where from any longer. I re-discovered that i'd downloaded it and decided it would be a great avatar. Me and my warped sense of humour.

[nullpointer]

.....it would be a great avatar

Damn your avatar! I can't stop looking at it. I think you may have discovered a way to perform hypnosis over the internet.

[Big Booger]

If a temp company hires you, you are already sucking their dick... the moment you sign on with a temp company, you're giving away your salary to them.

They do little work and yet skim off the top of your potential pay. Interac, Winerva, W5, etc... they all take money from the board's of education that you work for and then pay you a pissy little salary with little to no benefit.

It's cuntish, crooked, and dirty. I'd rather work at a 7/11 full time than work for Interac. And these morons that join up with these companies knowing full well they are being scammed are fucking dickwads. If you make less than 300000 yen a month, and have to pay for your own housing, insurance, and travel, and get no bonus.... YOU ARE GETTING FUCKED IN THE ARSE. Some people are so fucking stupid and pathetic and they make teaching in Japan a joke. Don't take it up the ass any more... don't be Interac's bitch.

[FG Lurker]

BB, I agree with your sentiments re temp companies. However, it is basically true of ALL companies. If you work for them, they are obviously making more off your labour than they are paying you -- if they aren't then you won't have a job for long. It is a bit more obvious with a temp company, but essentially it doesn't change.

The only ways to avoid that are to either work for yourself or work for the government. It'll be a cold day in hell before I work in a government office again! Tried that, nearly drove me nuts...

[Big Booger]

BB, I agree with your sentiments re temp companies. However, it is basically true of ALL companies. If you work for them, they are obviously making more off your labour than they are paying you -- if they aren't then you won't have a job for long. It is a bit more obvious with a temp company, but essentially it doesn't change.

The only ways to avoid that are to either work for yourself or work for the government. It'll be a cold day in hell before I work in a government office again! Tried that, nearly drove me nuts...

Yeah but the thing is Interac and their ilk all work as a gobetween for government *ed. boards... So they are milking the cows tits with your potential salary.

If I had to work for Interac, I'd do something so deplorable that they'd never use Interac again.

If it came down to it I would work for myself. At least I wouldn't be slaving away for a middle man who does Jack shit for me.

[Taro Toporific]

[floatr][/floatr]Damn your avatar! I can't stop looking at it. I think you may have discovered a way to perform hypnosis over the internet.

"A flock of yellow-eyed currawong, the bird avatars of the Buddha, let loose a hypnotic white splash of their perfect nature...."