For those who have worked at or know anything about Globe English School, can you share your experience?

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1. Worked for them briefly almost 10 years ago they didn’t give me enough lessons, I came one day for only 2 lessons and got verbally abused by a student woman in her hands 40s who left midlesson, then they said I won’t get paid for it cause the student requested a refund, so I quit shortly after, it was a part time job anyways.

2. Rule of thumb for literally any private for profit business that’s centered around English tutoring that does not require any English education certification is to just flip a coin.

   Heads, it will be at best “okay”, tails it will be a black company ran by completely inept people that will insist to the death that their way is best.

   If they didn’t ask you for any actual credentials/don’t ask for any on applications, they will have no real standards either way.

3. please PLEASE do yourself a favour and do not work here… Globe English School was one of the worst jobs I’ve ever had in Japan, and it all comes down to Nao Kiyota’s toxic management.

   He’s ridiculously petty. Start time is 11:30, and if a teacher came in at 11:32, he would dock their pay by “rounding” it up to 11:45. The kicker? Classes don’t even begin until 12:00. So you’re essentially punished for something that has no effect on the job itself. It’s not professionalism. it’s control and humiliation.

   One teacher even stood up for himself and pointed out that this docking system wasn’t written anywhere in the contract he had signed. Instead of acknowledging that, Nao essentially punished him. The “choice” was: either accept a new contract that explicitly allows him to dock pay this way, or have your contract canceled, which was basically firing him. Especially since you’re hired as a freelance, that’s the trick, so you can be his puppet and if you don’t comply, you’re tossed away or deliberately given the worse shifts so it forces you to quit on your own accord. That’s how this place operates and unfortunately he loves to “offer” a work visa to you so now you are locked under his ruling and have no choice but to accept his bs because if you don’t, you are dismissed without a second thought and you risk your livelihood. By the way, this teacher lost this battle and accepted his exploitative move so this teacher can continue having a roof over his head.

   On top of that, I saw racism in how teachers of color were treated compared to others. They were singled out more often, criticized more harshly, and spoken to with less respect or if you’re part time and he hates you, he randomly cuts your hours the day of (one teacher was scheduled to work 6 hour day and in the morning she only was scheduled 2 classes and the rest of her classes were blocked but he had other teachers pick up her other students causing classes to randomly be mixed levels..It wasn’t random, it was a consistent pattern.

   And let’s not forget again,
   you’re basically freelancing with no benefits, no stability, and no protection. He has even made teachers cry with how unnecessarily demeaning and belittling he can be. Instead of supporting staff, he goes out of his way to break them down with the way he speaks and his demeaning type of humour.

   There’s a reason Globe has constant turnover: teachers leaving, new ones always being hired, crap pay. It’s not because people can’t handle teaching, the students are great. It’s because the work environment is toxic, exploitative, and insufferable under him.

   If you’re considering working here, don’t. There are countless other schools in Japan that will are a smidge less crappy and not inherently run by a covert narcissist who is cheap. Globe is not one of them.

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