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• 17Jun

  Interac in bed with Gaijinpot? asks Forum Poster

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  Found an interesting forum post with posters discussing their negative experience being censored by Gaijinpot.

  The forum poster asks if Interac is in bed with Gaijinpot. The answer to the question is yes as they advertise through them.

  Any underhanded or dirty practices English teaching companies pull that forum posters try to expose are willingly censored out of existence by Gaijinpot.

  Comment #1 is talking about a famous case where a guy was fired from Interac because his baby died and he missed work.

  I think Comment #2 summarizes what Gaijinpot does really well.

  COMMENT #1
  Adrian Jones Says:
  April 20th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
  I sent a PM to Michael,after my reply to his post on Gaijinpot was deleted,I was very angry about this getting pulled as I had a similar experience with a children`s eikaiwa`Kitty Club`,when my mother passed away last August : http://www.letsjapan.org/forum/viewtopi … 1&t=256276
  my reply to Michael was to tell of my experience [self censoring the name of the company,as they advertise on Gaijinpot] and providing links to the union who helped me [http://freeter-union.org/union],I was disgusted that my reply was deleted by Gaijinpot.
  I think some good points have been made on here,why would Interac need a signed resignation if what they were doing wasn`t illegal ! I think you`ve got a good case Michael.
  I have asked Gaijinpot for an apology for pulling my post,I considered it in extremely poor taste,I also asked if they were now censoring links to unions,guess what,they pulled my post yet again !

  COMMENT #2
  Johnny Says:
  April 21st, 2009 at 2:37 pm
  Gaijinpot is definitely not No.1 for foreigners in Japan, given the way that they continually censor posts that expose companies that treat foreign workers poorly.

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  Tags: Gaijinpot, Gaijinpot Censorship, Interac, Interac Japan

• 19Apr

  Interac Japan Job Reviews

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  Interac Japan is one of the notorious dirt bag ALT dispatch companies operating in Japan. Found a job review site that lists what people experienced first hand working for them.
  

  The reviews are uniformly bad. Should make you think twice before considering working for them.

  In an interesting and related recent development, “Public schools here [Kashiwa, Chiba] have been unable to start their native speaker-taught English classes this school year after the city’s board of education was accused of violating labor laws with foreign language teachers.”. Basically ALTs employed by the Kashiwa Board of Education were being taken advantage of and screwed over. The details are in the Lets Japan post.
  

  The Lets Japan post has a link to a compilation that lists how ALTs are getting scammed or screwed by dispatch companies. This ALT scam compilation doesn’t mention names but we will Interac Japan is one of the biggest and most notorious companies.

  For an example of how Interac Japan treats its employees follow this link.

  For an example of what Interac employees are like follow this link. The Interac stooge who says his name is Roger Starkey rogstarkey@yahoo.com hid the fact they worked for Interac while trying to defend Gaijinpot a site which suckers fresh meat foreigners in to working for trashy companies like Interac Japan.

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  Tags: ALT Scam, Gaijinpot, Gaijinpot Forum, Interac Japan, Interac Japan Job Review, Interac Japan Review

• 05Mar

  AEON Japan Fires Teacher Over Personal Blog… Allegedly

  English Teaching, Japan 1 Comment
  Cruising the web I found a very detailed in depth experience from a former teacher who used to work at AEON Japan one of the large eikaiwas still in business in Japan.

  Seems the former AEON teacher was blogging about their AEON experiences and the bitch company hacks canned them in a vigilante firing by not renewing their contract…  allegedly.

  The former teachers intentions were noble, “I wanted to give prospective employees a better idea of what it meant to come to Japan and work in the eikaiwa.”.

  For better or for worse the former teacher mentioned in their blog that they were an AEON teacher and their work location. (Mistake in my personal opinion)

  The EX AEON employee talked about being poorly treated on their  blog.

  “I had covered some of the staff reactions to my presence in the office – this was mostly coming from my manager, but I had the impression they thought I was an idiot because of my poor Japanese skills: spelling everything out, using a childish tone to talk to me…”

  Seems the bitch AEON hacks didn’t like that being exposed one bit.

  Threats and intimidation followed.

  “after making me feel pretty lousy and telling me all the teachers at the school hated me and didn’t want to talk to me, she asked me if I would like to transfer to a different school”

  “She also stipulated that if she informed corporate headquarters about this, they would fire me; essentially, I was being censored. Told to remove all references to AEON or be fired. I walked away and stayed pretty silent for the rest of the day.”

  The former teacher decides to transfer out and talks about that on their blog but gets bitch slapped by several AEON stooges.

  “Again, censored. Told to remove all reference to the transfer, and prepare for another meeting next week. Later that day, I also received a call from my trainer telling me I was going to be reprimanded and it was a “serious situation”.”

  In the end the former teacher’s contract was not renewed

  “All this occurred before my renewal evaluation in December. All these opinions were embedded in the management and head teacher before my renewal.

  My contract was not renewed, mainly on the basis of co-worker rapport.”

  See what happened in this story is not surprising stooges who work for companies that treat their fresh off the boat teachers like disposable trash don’t like it when their dirty laundry is exposed. Check out this link to see what an Interac employee wrote to me when when they didn’t like what I was writing. The stooge forgot to mention they worked for Interac.
  

  Up till now I had not read too many bad experiences about AEON Japan but I guess that’s changed now.

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  Tags: Aeon Censorship, AEON Eikaiwa, AEON Firing, AEON Japan, Interac Japan

• 15Feb

  GEOS Offers Worthless Lessons in Japan for Screwed Over Australian Students

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  GEOS has decided to offer the students left in the lurch by the Geos Australia closures free lessons in Japan!

  This is worthless! The majority of the population can’t speak English here!

  According to Lets Japan, “if you had a contract with GEOS Australia slated to start from February 2, 2010 or had made an application before January 29, GEOS will offer you 6 months of “Active lessons” at at any GEOS school in Japan at no charge. Students wishing to accept the offer have to provide GEOS with their details no later than December 29, 2010.

  Flying to Japan is expensive, living in Japan is expensive, nobody can speak English here.

  Nobody from Australia is going to accept this offer.

  Instead of a refund for the screwed over students Geos has decided to offer them…      Nothing!

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  Tags: GEOS, GEOS Australia, GEOS Bankruptcy, GEOS Voluntary Administration

• 01Feb

  GEOS Australia Campuses Close Their Doors - Rumors of Financial Problems Grow

  English Teaching, Japan 2 Comments

  Eight GEOS schools in Australia have suddenly closed their doors and entered Voluntary Administration. Screwed over teachers and students at the GEOS Sydney campus were greeted with a sign on the Window stating, “Unfortunately GEOS Australia will be closed from Monday 1st February until further notice. As soon as we have more information regarding the future of the school you will be contacted by person.”

  A screwed over teacher stated her displeasure, “It is going to be really difficult for people like me who only have $20 in the bank because I will have to find another job quickly,” she said.

  For an interesting read go through the comments of this posting on Lets Japan. It’s loaded with comments from former teachers/employees of GEOS. A common theme is the money from the Australia campuses was keeping GEOS afloat overall. Another common theme is all people working at GEOS should get out NOW.

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  Tags: GEOS, GEOS Australia, GEOS Bankruptcy, GEOS Voluntary Administration

• 29Jan

  Evolve with Interac Japan

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  This is a great advertisement from the marketing team of Interac Japan.

  This link goes to a larger version of the image.

  You start as a fresh meat university graduate you are lured by the false promises of places like the Gaijinpot job board and you end up as a suit wearing monkey who is shipped off to “teach” by a company with alleged ties to the Mormon Church and a history of treating their ALTs like trash.

  That is the evolution of an Interac ALT.

  Looking for more information on Interac? Look here

  Looking for the real deal about the information available on Gaijinpot? Look here

  Looking for where people go when they are banned by Gaijinpot? Look Here

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  Tags: Gaijinpot, Gaijinpot Forum, Interac

• 04Nov

  Gaijinpot Censors GEOS Implosion Rumors

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  Interesting thread on the Expat Japan Forum that talks about how Gaijinpot is censoring threads that speculate GEOS will be the next large Eikaiwa English School to go under.

  The reason for these rumors is in August/September 2009 GEOS staff were being paid late and the details were being discussed in a few Japanese message boards.

  When NOVA was about to implode Gaijinpot censored all topics about the impending NOVA collapse right up until they really did fold.

  The forum posters on Expat Japan are pointing out how Gaijinpot is “up to their old tricks”.

  I think it would suck pretty bad to get a job with GEOS and then have them suddenly go belly up.

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  Tags: Eikaiwa, Expat Japan, Gaijinpot, Gaijinpot Forum, GEOS, Nova

• 20Oct

  ALT Dispatch Instructors Working Under Illegal Contracts

  English Teaching, Japan 1 Comment

  Interesting article about how 16 school districts are using ALT Dispatch Companies to hire foreign teachers.The General Union based in Osaka is charging the contracts these ALTs sign are illegal.

  The Tokai municipal board is mentioned specifically.

  The Tokai municipal board of education is “especially malicious in that (it) has refused a demand for collective bargaining,” the union said. It filed an appeal with the Aichi labor bureau to address the situation with the Tokai board.

  These stories about ALT Dispatch firms always leave out the name of the dispatch firm.

  If you’re reading this be aware one of the most notorious players is Interac Japan. -  This company is commonly charged with dirty, underhanded business practices. They’re the perpetrator.

  Be also aware Gaijinpot Job Ads are one place where Interac advertises. Be aware all negative information about Interac on the Gaijinpot forums are censored out of existence. Gaijinpot is an enabler for Interac’s dirty and underhanded ways.

  What a cozy and dirty money making relationship this is in my opinion.

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  Tags: ALT, Gaijinpot, Gaijinpot Forum, Interac

• 20Oct

  GEOS Employee Salaries Late in September 2009?

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  LetsJapan has an interesting posting about rumors surfacing GEOS employees are being paid late including instructors. If you can read Japanese many employees are posting about it at this message board.

  Are you thinking about going to GEOS for lessons? Maybe you shouldn’t to be safe. It would suck to be out your lesson fees which they make you pay in advance.

  Are you thinking about working at GEOS as a teacher? Maybe you shouldn’t if you like being paid on time.

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  Tags: GEOS, Late Salary

• 19Sep

  English Teaching Industry Continues Declines

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  Great new post about an interview between the Japan Times and a GEOS employee has been posted to LetsJapan.org. The post criticizes the GEOS employee’s answers to the interview questions for the first half and the second half summarizes the different groups within the English teaching industry in Japan.

  1. Eikaiwas

  2. ALT Dispatch Firms

  3. Homestaty Dispatch - Study Abroad Agents

  They have nothing good to say about any group and until I read the post I didn’t know Eikaiwa’s and ALT Dispatch Firms were not the only groups who have been accused of underhanded business practices. In the past Gateway21 was a company that sent Japanese students abroad to Study English but the company went bankrupt and all the clients lost their money. I wonder which other agents that send students abroad are screwing over customers to this day the same way Gateway21 did.

  To get the scoop about Eikaiwa companies see the LetsJapan forum.

  To read about underhanded ALT dispatch firms look up Interac Japan as there is a wealth of information out there.

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  Tags: GEOS, Interac, Letsjapan

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