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PITY BONER posted:Questions for those who have taught in Japan: I am an ESL teacher with 10 years experience. Mainly in Korea, but I have also done my time in China and Japan. have worked in Japan twice. Once 15 years ago at a private school for mainly adults, (that went bankrupt whislt I was working for them and owe me 2 months pay I will never see), and now where I work at public schools and have 2 JHS, 2ES, 2 Nursery Schools and a weekly Adults class at the town hall. For your first question: Yes. I am expected to create plans for and manage all these different classes for all these different levels. And the reason I can do this is because I am out in the semi-countryside. My schools are all very small. With only one class per grade level, and with mostly 15-20 kids per class. One of my year 5 classes only has 10 kids in it. Also I am an ALT, (Assistant Language Teacher), meaning I co-teach with the actual English teacher. Which reduces my workload/responsibility quite a bit. For your second question: Yeah I have seen those ads too, and applied for a couple before settling on the job I have. My opninion, (and take it with grain of salt seeing how little experience I have), is that most of those are private academies/ekaiwas. And your mileage will always vary with these all over the world. (I have mostly taught in public schools, but both of the private companies I have worked for, 1 in Korea 1 in Japan, owe me money. And have heard worse stories about various hagwons in Korea, and Happy Giraffe style schools in China/Taiwan etc.) So for jobs like that, so long as you know what you are getting into. My rule of thumb is I will not even look at a job that is not prepared to offer me at least help with accomodation, and at least partial flight re-imbursment. Also coz I am a lazy bastard, I like having 2 days off a week, and at least 10 days off a year. My last hagwon job in Korea tried to make me claim Saturdays and Sundays as part of those 10. For your third question: Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I don't know and have no experience of it. My m.o. is spend 2-3 years in a place. Then leave after completing the contract, go home and spend a month or two looking for/getting a visa for my next job and away I go. So upward mobility within a position/greater salary is not something I know anything about. I hope these answers help. I am sorry if they didn't.
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Grand Fromage posted:lol lol the ship name itself means "far watch 5" lol?
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Miniso always tried hard to scrub it's Chinese origin in the stores in HK, but the Wikipedia article has a bit of a burn now:quote:The company claims that Japanese designer Miyake Junya co-founded Miniso,[13] although local media reports in China and Japan have questioned Junya's existence.[14][15][16] The company initially claimed to be a famous Japanese brand, despite operating in Mainland China under Chinese company Aiyaya with no outlets in Japan, It's an interesting company for the gigantic investment it has, the stores have rapidly grown in number and the amount of stock is very high. MrMoo fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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Why wouldn't they just ignore any criticism and keep chugging along?
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reminds me of that chinese mattress company that turned a random old white guy into the face of the company
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Charles Bukowski posted:Why wouldn't they just ignore any criticism and keep chugging along? It means the CEO was invited for a polite chat with a CCP official. Usually along the lines of "you have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, change your ways or we will." Any large company has to host CCP officials and follow party orders, otherwise they will forcibly take ownership and kick you out. MrMoo fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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Stink Billyums posted:reminds me of that chinese mattress company that turned a random old white guy into the face of the company boss coffee of japan (like, actually of japan) did this but for tommy lee jones as the random old white guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOgowZe14U8
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There's also Superdry, a UK company that tries to sell itself as being Japanese.
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And let's not forget Häagen-Dazs.
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Criss-cross posted:There's also Superdry, a UK company that tries to sell itself as being Japanese. this got posted twice and twice i was like "i'm pretty sure asahi beer is a japanese thing" but apparently superdry is clothing. literally have never seen one of these, are they just british
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MrMoo posted:It means the CEO was invited for a polite chat with a CCP official. Usually along the lines of "you have hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, change your ways or we will." Any large company has to host CCP officials and follow party orders, otherwise they will forcibly take ownership and kick you out. I like that except that the CCP is doing it. That should be the way it is if any company isn't putting the needs of humanity before profits. Also superdry is very popular, you've probably seen it without realizing it bald avatar man that hasn't seen fashion
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Charles Bukowski posted:Why wouldn't they just ignore any criticism and keep chugging along? China is currently very mad about Japan and removing anything at all Japan-related is happening all over the country.
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Mister Olympus posted:this got posted twice and twice i was like "i'm pretty sure asahi beer is a japanese thing" but apparently superdry is clothing. literally have never seen one of these, are they just british Stores of theirs are all across Europe, at least.
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Mister Olympus posted:this got posted twice and twice i was like "i'm pretty sure asahi beer is a japanese thing" but apparently superdry is clothing. literally have never seen one of these, are they just british There's one in the Woodfield Mall near Chicago, at least. I had assumed it was a Chinese store due to the fact that the name made zero sense.
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Grand Fromage posted:China is currently very mad about Japan and removing anything at all Japan-related is happening all over the country. Perfectly normal thing for a country to do, such as Western nation citizens refusing to serve Russian dressing. Glad we're all on the same page. Jesus Christ its all run by babies
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Freedom fries aren't free. $9.11 plus local sales tax.
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Yes, why do those dumb Westerners not love the country that is currently waging a war of aggression against them?? This is just like Freedom Fries. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Edit: I don't feel like a dumb debate, nevermind.
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Grand Fromage posted:China is currently very mad about Japan and removing anything at all Japan-related is happening all over the country. "China is currently mad about" is an evergreen statement
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Mister Olympus posted:this got posted twice and twice i was like "i'm pretty sure asahi beer is a japanese thing" but apparently superdry is clothing. literally have never seen one of these, are they just british Other pretends to be foreign brit things are Pret a Manger, Patisserie Valerie and Costa, it works very well. e: Not even brits want to buy British food when eating out. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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Charles Bukowski posted:I like that except that the CCP is doing it. That should be the way it is if any company isn't putting the needs of humanity before profits. he would know if he’d seen superdry since giant branding is their aesthetic
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hypnophant posted:he would know if he’d seen superdry since giant branding is their aesthetic
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I feel sorry for young chinese people the goverment gets ride of video games, and then anime.
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Oh no, the two food groups
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Private Speech posted:
How bloody dare you, I make a point of getting a.... uh... Stargazy Pie for lunch every day, just like everyone else.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:"China is currently mad about" is an evergreen statement Yeah, though they do usually have one particular country targeted at any given time and other ones are just like a baseline background mad. The current Japan Mad will go away once someone else does something.
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On the "company pretends to be foreign" thing: Does/did anyone ever think that Paris Baguette was a French company?
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Ah yes, giant spherical red bean doughnut, a staple of French breakfasts.
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BrigadierSensible posted:On the "company pretends to be foreign" thing: Their pastries are a dead giveaway. E: Vaporware posted:Ah yes, giant spherical red bean doughnut, a staple of French breakfasts. Or their weird hot dog pastry things.
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If you're ever wondering why there are so many banh mi shops named Ba Le Banh Mi, it's basically the same thing. Ba Le is Paris in Vietnamese.
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All the good pastries are Austrian anyway. It's deception all the way down.
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BrigadierSensible posted:On the "company pretends to be foreign" thing: What about hagen daz?
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Ups_rail posted:What about hagen daz? Det er ikke Danskene, dens pseudo dansk ... pseudanske
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Pseüdänske Daszsz
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I was looking for an old post in a previous china.jpg thread and came across this /r/relationships post from a few years ago: Curiosity got the better of me and I looked up that username on Reddit to see if there were any updates. Found this nightmare MIL situation posted recently:  
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that mother in law is never ever leaving, lmao
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Porfiriato posted:that mother in law is never ever leaving, lmao There's a deleted update https://www.unddit.com/r/relationships/comments/v8ljzo/update_i_25f_screamed_at_my_chinese_mil_who_is/ So I guess she is going back and they all found common ground but, gently caress, she's able to take a lot more poo poo than me. She was talking about how they took the FIL's passport too so he's stuck in China separated from her and, yep, it's a bitch right now. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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Not so Despicable: China changes ending of Minions movie https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-62642640quote:Others said Gru's alternate ending conveniently promoted China's three-child policy, as the country tries to raise its birth rate. The subtitled stills were also widely compared to PowerPoint presentation slides in quality.
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Shumagorath posted:Not so Despicable: China changes ending of Minions movie https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-62642640 Amazing I love how Hollywood allows this just to get a taste of that sweet sweet Chinese cash
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Charles Bukowski posted:Perfectly normal thing for a country to do, such as Western nation citizens refusing to serve Russian dressing. Glad we're all on the same page. I had to look up what Russian dressing is and of course it's "an American type of salad dressing" lmao.
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