GABA conditions summmarized

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Condensed for all you NOVA types to compare with to see how lucky you all are..

- The lowest paying job in Tokyo (1350 yen) with the near-highest charging fees for students (8000 yen + extras).
- No guaranteed minimum pay - often well below survival rate for Japan (200,000 yen).
- No lunchbreak
- No commission for successful course sales to students, just a flat 1 lesson's payment bonus.
- No transport fee is supplied.
- No tax processing offered. (You want to fill out your own end-of-year tax forms in kanji??)
- No bonuses.
- No pension contribution.
- No insurance (even if you fall sick in class!!).
- No pay for class preparation or administration.
- No pay for cancelled lessons - you lose, but GABA takes the fee.
- No advancement opportunities but plenty of lies about potential benefits.
- No 1 year contract (2 months validity only)
- Withholding tax is charged but not reimbursed (your classified as a "partner" - not an employee).
- Expect to wait 1.5 - 2 months for your first paycheck from starting to work.
- No consultation from the management - it's "up to you to check your status" - which can change on an hour by hour basis.

Teachers are left to fight it out amongst themselves through the AM as a proxy to get enough hours . Crammed with abusive, law-skirting rules that are designed for one purpose: to cut your pay. Be prepared for rules such as "no facial hair, must wear black suit, must give 2 months notice, no social contact, must be available anytime, etc." Lesson gaps are many and unpaid. Working hours are irregular from 7AM start to 10.40PM finish. There are VERY few classes (1-3 per school) between 11AM-4PM.

[DJEB]

Thanks for the heads up.

Try hitting them with this:
http://www.woollerton.com/ktuf/eng/whatisktuf-e.shtml

Also see:
http://www.woollerton.com/nugwnat/eng/nugw-top-e-fs.shtml

[Taro Toporific]

[DJEB]

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They have a point: Bush could use lessons.

"My views are one that speaks to freedom."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

"And if you're interested in the quality of education and you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to read?"—St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5, 2004

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the—the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."—Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003

"[W]hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves."—Washington, Oct. 8, 2003

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."—Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 [Ok, it has no grammar problems, but it is funny.]

"[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric."—Crawford, Texas, Aug. 8, 2003 [Ditto]

"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace."—Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

"I'm the master of low expectations."—Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003 [Again, no error, but it is worth posting.]

"I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things."—Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003 [Ditto]

"Oftentimes, we live in a processed world—you know, people focus on the process and not results."—Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

"I think war is a dangerous place."—Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003