How is INTERAC These Days?

[JakeBlues]

How is working at INTERAC these days? I hear they have a small but mighty union now, and things are improving. Is it safe to work for them yet?

[Taro Toporific]

How is working at INTERAC these days? I hear they have a small but mighty union now, and things are improving. Is it safe to work for them yet?

In one word: Mormons

[JakeBlues]

Didn't know Interac was run by Mormons!

[dimwit]

That is good to know. I will ask for my dollar twenty five back from them the next time I see one of those bicycle helmets. :P

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Really... I signed up with them a few times and they always rejected me. I didnt notice any questions that were about religion. Since I am irreligious and quite addiment about it I guess it didnt go down well.

[Big Booger]

They enslave you to work.... The whole english teaching scheme here has gone to the shithouse years ago...

Interac is like a temp agency taking their share from your salary for jobs that you should have got without Interac.

Companies/organizations/governments that hire through Interac are just as shitty as Interac.

Interac gets paid obviously more than they pay you. Thus you are getting screwed by joining up with Interac.

[dimwit]

OH!!! You are talking about the Eikaiwa. I thought you were talking about the banking network. I guess it happens when you get out of the clostered world of J-land for summer vacs.

[Big Booger]

OH!!! You are talking about the Eikaiwa. I thought you were talking about the banking network. I guess it happens when you get out of the clostered world of J-land for summer vacs.

I was assuming it was eikaiwa bullshit. :d Sorry if misconstrued.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

They enslave you to work.... The whole english teaching scheme here has gone to the shithouse years ago...

No company will ever make a slave out of me, at least while I am in collage. I have walked out of so many jobs I cant count. Perhaps 10 in the last 5 years. I might be a student but I will never take shit especialy when I am not being paid a full wage.

[JakeBlues]

Yes, I was asking about INTERAC English teaching jobs, especially at high schools in Kanagawa. Hopefully, their union can make some quick progress before April: http://nambufwc.org/

[gomichild]

I worked for them bout 6 years ago - left when the big pay hassles were going on.

Some of the school work was good - some dire - depends on the school really.

[skyengines]

As a current employee of Interac I can assure you that their shady practices are continuing. My pay is shit, usually under 20 man a month, and they recently made a 6.5 man deduction from my paycheck in an administrative 'mistake'. In other words they must be so wracked for liquid capital that they have to cannibalize their employees' paychecks.

Hell I can't even afford healthcare and I've been in the city for about four months. Not to mention that on summer break they just cut you loose with no job links or anything.

Things are going to change though.

[JakeBlues]

Sounds like I don't need to apply with Interac yet. The day will come when all these greedy companies have to pay for our health insurance. Good luck with the good fight!

[Big Booger]

Jake check around the gaijin pot. There are loads of private hires that pay loads better than InterCrack.

http://www.gaijinpot.com/job_search.php

Interac is a middleman, and they take away about 30-25% of your monthly salary. So if you are being paid 200000 yen a month, You can guarantee Interac is being paid 250000 yen to 300000 yen a month.

Their business dress requirement is fucked up... Japanese dolts in the education system barely meet proper dress code requirements... and Interac expects you to wear business attire... in this humidity.. fuck off.

What is the dress standard?

Interac ALTs and LCs must wear business attire while undertaking training, on all teaching assignments, or when visiting the office. Clothing standards in Japan are conservative and professional. For men, a dress shirt, tie, and business style pants are required. For women, a smart professional attire, inclusive of skirts below the knees or business style suits, are required on all Interac Co., Ltd. related business.

That's BS... Mormonish (sorry mormons)....

What are the working hours?

Most Interac ALTs work 40 hours per week, between the hours of 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. The exact working hours will be determined by the school board that the ALT has been assigned to. Apart from attendance at special school events, weekends and public holidays are recognised as days off.

How many lessons will I teach each week?

Most ALTs teach approximately 20-25 lessons per week. The remainder of the working week at the schools is spent lesson planning, meeting with the teachers, and performing other administrative duties.

What is the monthly salary?

Most Interac ALTs qualify for a salary of 250,000 yen (230,000 base salary + 20,000 attendence bonus) per month, before withholding taxes which average 7%. The monthly salary includes an attendance bonus component which is paid in full each month if all professional responsibilities are executed.

That's total shit for living here... And they say you teach 20-25 lessons per week, but when you spend nearly 1-2 hours each lesson for preparation, it equates to SHIT pay for lots of work.

I hate Interac and companies like them... they fuck hard-working people out of better pay.

BURN IN HELL INTERAC!

[Big Booger]

Kanagawa

http://www.gaijinpot.com/job_view.php?jid=9190&rid=13&tr=110&cat=le&full_part=1&position_type=&keyword=&offset=0

http://www.gaijinpot.com/job_view.php?jid=8081&rid=10&tr=110&cat=le&full_part=1&position_type=&keyword=&offset=40

Much better teaching positions that don't involve Interac the English Whore Company.

[JakeBlues]

It sucks that Interac controls so many h.s. & j.h.s. jobs that people would like to have. The BOEs should be ashamed.

[Big Booger]

It sucks that Interac controls so many h.s. & j.h.s. jobs that people would like to have. The BOEs should be ashamed.

What's really fucked is you don't get paid for any time you have no school... unlike other JETs, private hires and so on. During summer you get off (but they reserve the right to call you in if needed) and you get NO PAY.

Further, they have a no-competition clause in their contract. Basically it says you can't teach for 2 years after quitting InterCrack.

What is more, is many of the months like July, March, December, etc... have less than 15-20 days of work. And at those times, you get deducted 12000 yen per day.... for every day you don't work over 20 days.

And they pay a base (salary) of 230000 per month based on a full months work. you can make that working at a gasoline station....

And what they want you to feel is great, is they will pay you a BONUS, every month, of 20000 yen... just for being on time... and not being absent...

But if you get in an accident in the morning, no bonus. Your alarm battery dies 1 time in a month, no bonus.

You get diarrhea on the way to work and stop off for a shit, no bonus...


WHat you wind up making is closer to 170000 per month, averaged over 12 months.

Which is only 2 million yen... and you have to pay for your own housing, insurance, airfare if you come from outside Japan....

For you fucks who are thinking of coming here, 2 million yen here is poverty row... I warn you when you get here on the Interac scheme you'll be sorry!

[Big Booger]

Have a read of the contract for Interac (AKA InterCRACK)

Make your pact with the devil:


Make your pact with the devil PART DEUX:


And then check out their driving policy below. First they want to escape any and all liability, which I totally agree with, but then they follow up with some snooping by making you provide all your driving information, like copies of your car shaken, national driving insurance, private insurance, and a copy of your driver's license....

That to me constitutes total invasion of your privacy... if they make you sign a document foregoing any liability, what business is it of theirs to know all your driving information?

No Liability:


ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US!!!!

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Dont they know that English contracts dont mean shit in Japan.

[Greji]

Dont they know that English contracts dont mean shit in Japan.

Not correct. If there is no stipulation contained therein that a Japanese document shall be considered binding over the English language contract, the English language contract will stand the test of Japanese law.

[skyengines]

BB is indeed correct, working for Interac is a really raw deal that unfortunately a lot of people just can't seem to avoid falling into. I want to let everyone know about the Interac union:

http://www.interacunion.org/

Union blog http://www.nambufwc.org/komplete/webapps/komplete/index.php?KTurl=komplete.html

Check it out and tell your friends that are currently slaving away for nothing at all.

[Big Booger]

I beg any of you INterac workers to quit mid-contract... Bring that POS company to the ground...

I hope they all rot in hell.

[patsensei]

I remember when I worked for them a few years back they had cash flow problems and salary was only paid in half and half again after 2 weeks. My friend works there now and he gets paid a very bad salary. They try and out bid other schools to win over contracts at junior highs. The training they gave us was very poor. but it may have improved recently.

[Currawong]

My wife forwarded me an advert from "Selti" for a job in a public school. I was filling out an online application when my computer popped up a request asking if i wanted to connect to interac.co.jp. Busted! Part of me I guess hopes that things wont suck so much if I applied in Fukuoka....I'm getting sick of explaining to my in-laws that the reason I don't apply to all these jobs is because they are run by fucked companies that abuse workers and are considered the equivalent of jobs cleaning toilets.

[AssKissinger]

My wife forwarded me an advert from "Selti" for a job in a public school. I was filling out an online application when my computer popped up a request asking if i wanted to connect to interac.co.jp. Busted! Part of me I guess hopes that things wont suck so much if I applied in Fukuoka....I'm getting sick of explaining to my in-laws that the reason I don't apply to all these jobs is because they are run by fucked companies that abuse workers and are considered the equivalent of jobs cleaning toilets.

What kind of work are you doing then?

[Currawong]

I'm not "officially" working - I have a few private students. I'd get an IT job (my specialty is web serving) but my Japanese has gone to shit in the 5 years since I studied it.

[GomiGirl]

You don't really need fluent japanese if you have good IT skills. if people needed only fluent Japanese speakers they would hire native speakers. With good IT skills you can get around that. Depends on how good you are though...

[terry66]

Hey , well as a current employee of the aforementioned company I can say that they`re not that bad! After all taxes are bad i get about 245,000 a month! I`m lucky as i dont really have many expenses (as i live with my japanese inlaws) and i manage to save about 200,000 per month!!
Since i`ve been with them i`ve always been paid ontime and the whole amount!! I have never been observed and have never had any problems, actually they have ben quite supportive!
The way things are going now it won`t be long before all ALT jobs are thru dispatch co`s. At least interac leaves you too it and don`t hassle you!
I might not know what it was like before interac and the like but after korea this is a refreshing change!

[nullpointer]

Currawong: What's with the avatar. Is it supposed to be cute or scary? It looks like one of those ass penetrating alien creatures from Dreamcatcher

[Taro Toporific]

Currawong: What's with the avatar. Is it supposed to be cute or scary? It looks like one of those ass penetrating alien creatures from Dreamcatcher

Damn. That leech lama been nagging me too.