Scumbag Companies in Japan.

[TFG]

Anyone care to share their experiences as to which Scumbag companies not to work for? I have a real horror story I heard from a guy last night and will post details if anyone is interested.

[Luciddreamer]

sure man,definitely interested :P

[sublight]

All the real scumbag companies I've worked for have gone out of business. One was an English School in Shizuoka-ken that hired me directly from overseas because nobody local would work for them.

The other was supposedly a software company that never actually released a product. When I interviewed with them, they said they were launching the beta version next month, and when I was laid off ten months later, they were still saying the beta release was next month. Never actually found out what it was supposed to do (some sort of server management package that sounded suspiciously like "the Internet") since the VP always got pissy and defensive when anyone tried to get a solid explanation out of him. I still think it was just a scam to rip off VC investors (they managed to raise about $10 million in capital). At least it paid obscenely well for doing nothing.

But yeah, I'd love to hear yours.

[TFG]

Ok, I met this guy who has worked for a kids indoor play system maker. The poor bastard got injured at work when some equipment he was handling smacked him in the eye. The impact broke his eye socket and damaged the retina and nerve. The guy asks the company for the workman's compensation forms as he has already paid over 100, 000 Yen in medical costs and may need an operation to repair the damage to the eye socket.
The guy can not use his own medical insurance as he was injured at work and the powers that be at this company tell him they don`t have workman's compensation and try to get him to lie and pretend he was not working at the time of the injury so he can use the accident damage insurance they have to cover customers. He tells them to fuck off and demands the workman's compensation forms, they send him the forms then fire him for his trouble.
The guy has recorded all phone conversations with the company including the insurance company and the full time staff ordering him to commit insurance fraud. The National Union of General Workers has stepped in, and now the company has retracted the dismissal notice but say they are going to cut his salary by 60%.
Poor bastard has lost the vision in one eye and the doctors are telling him he will still need an operation but that this will not recover the eyesight in the damaged eye.
On top of all the above, the guy has to take 20 days off work and the company docs his pay! Haaaaa.

I heard this from the guy himself and also from NUGW when I called them to check into it.

Certainly sounds like a company to avoid.

Poor bastard.

[Charles]

Ok, I met this guy who has worked for BLD Oriental a kids indoor play system maker. The poor bastard got injured at work when some equipment he was handling smacked him in the eye.

Everybody's having fun until someone gets their eye poked out.

Not to make light of the poor fellow's disaster.. I think that's the test of a company, how it handles things when things go wrong.

[GomiGirl]

Hang on - how can a company NOT have workers compensation insurance? I mean, I don't have a nenkin or health insurance for my company staff (they all voted against it) but the workers comp is an absolutely necessity.

We had a guy who came down with a liver condition and needed a transplant. We paid him for about 6 months after he went into hospital even though he wasn't working but I think we got subsidised from somewhere, don't remember details. We offered him his job back but his health was really bad and he decided not to work at all.

His job is still open for him but of course we aren't paying him anymore. he seems better but he is still not great. Not sure exactly what he is doing now though work-wise.

It wasn't a self inflicted illness - a congenital one and I think his brother donated some of his liver as a live donation.

[TFG]

Hang on - how can a company NOT have workers compensation insurance? I mean, I don't have a nenkin or health insurance for my company staff (they all voted against it) but the workers comp is an absolutely necessity.

You are right, Workman's compensation is compulsory and it is illegal not to have it and cover all employees. Interesting that the ROSAI HOKKEN actually covers workers leaving home heading off for work and indeed the return journey back to ones abode.
Even if a company does not have the insurance, one can always go to the labor standards office and demand the application forms. In which case you can make your claim, the government covers all costs including compensation then bills the company.

Either way BLD Oriental sounds like it is truly worth of the title of SCUMBAG Company in Japan.

[amdg]

The trouble with these threads is that we all want to hear the names of the wrongdoers, but it's usually best not to implicate them on a public forum (just to be safe). TFG, maybe you should take out the company's name?

Personally, for me, hearing the name of the compnay is 50 percent of the enjoyment of reading this stuff, but.... perhaps its better left for a get together, in person.

[TFG]

Yeah, I hear ya.
However, this company did commit the foul acts portrayed and this is confirmed and actual recordings have been given to NUGW of the aforementioned misdeeds.

[Buraku]

Anyone care to share their experiences as to which Scumbag companies not to work for?

Never do the teach Engirish thing with Nova etc, its not just rumors. It's gone official
they are officially a bunch of cunts

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680652,00.html
In Japan, Teaching English for Food

When Natasha Steele came to Japan from her native Australia earlier this year to teach English, she was looking forward to immersing herself in a foreign culture while earning a little money on the side. Now, after the spectacular collapse of her employer, Japan's biggest English language school chain, Steele has found herself jobless, threatened with eviction and hungry

[OKLAHOMA]

TBN, a company that supplied pastors, musicians and singers to wedding chapels across Japan, recently went out of business, owing over 500 employees months of back salary. One guy is owed over 2.5 million yen in back wages, another guy over 400,000 yen and many are owed over 100,000 yen.

TBN's remaining contracts were taken over by an outfit called HORI INTEGRUM, which continues to hire some former TBN staff but is still in arrears with salary payments. HORI refuses to pay former TBN employess because "it's another company", although Hori is in fact the successor to TBN, the name change being only a legal fiction undertaken to avoid payment of just debts.

I'll say it again: Beware of TBN and HORI INTEGRUM, 2 scumbag companies in an industry that should be noted for honesty and integrity.

[thumper]

I am suprised nobody has mentioned Starlight English Club (STEC) in Eifucho.
They front as an NPO, and have ripped off scores of students and FG teachers for years. At least a dozen cases have been filed against them in the Tokyo Small Claims Court. They still get FG's to work for them, though, and the Japanese authorities don't seem to have the willpower or authority to shut them down.

[rooboy]

I had a mate who left Japan not that long ago and did he have the knack of getting the wrong fucking jobs! Nova (haha) and before that some shitty gig wiht a bitch called Miyo S something. Wing School Dazaifu, now theres another branch nearby.

She put all her teachers on one fucking day a week and fucked them over by not paying all the classes she siad she'd pay in the contract. She'd add on classes and when th teacher asked where was the xtra pay because their schedule had just gone up a few hours she'd play em as if they said something strange and not reasonable.

She'd also cut their hours when it suited her, no warning.

She was a fucking hypocritical bitch. Laughing and lying. I met her at a dinner my mate had to go to and I went but of course she didn't pay for her teachers. The btch is rolling in it and husbands a dentist, and I bet she's still stiffing her teachers. There's a website and the saps and losers (all male) she's got working for her say something about her and her fucked school.

I've worked for chain schools all my time in Japan and I've been ok. i wouldn't trust small schools with lyingass dogs like Miyo S. And yeah, if I knew her surname I'd put it out here. Don't give a fuck about what some lying middle aged J bitch thinks of me.

[Behan]

..Wing School Dazaifu.

Wing, if it's the same company, had a lot of advertisements on Gaijinpot.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Wing, if it's the same company, had a lot of advertisements on Gaijinpot.

Did you actually understand what he wrote?

[Behan]

Did you actually understand what he wrote?

No, just chiming in with another of my non sequiturs.....

Sorry.