So…I spent the past 7 months going through the process of teaching in Japan with AEON. After all the effort and time put into it, and having nearly just arrived in Japan – I don’t want to work here anymore or live in Japan.
The main reason is that I have a passion for other things and it wasn’t until now that the opportunity arose to take that (back home), and you just learn things in a given 7 months sometimes unrelated to what is happening in your life right now.
Anyhow, I’m just needing advice or even help about going about leaving AEON so suddenly and so soon. I don’t know if anyone has experience in this area or knows the best way to handle it – it’s going to kill so hard having to break this to everyone…
Has anyone had any experience with leaving early – like how it affects you who signed their contract for a year or just anything I should worry about?
Thanks…
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2 weeks is the legal limit but if you want to go home sooner you can just talk to them and try to sort something out. If you have a new job to go to back home then they should respect that, if not then use the “family emergency”. 3 new starters used that excuse and never started at my last job, I guess they got the visa gave it a few days and went elsewhere or it was a coincidence
I worked at AEON for a while and had a coworker who left suddenly. I think he gave a month or two notice & broke his contract. We had an emergency teacher come in for a couple months until the new teacher arrived and it was very smooth, honestly.
AEON is one of the easier companies to suddenly quit from with no guilt even if they might be unhappy – they’ve got dedicated emergency teachers who can step in to your place while they find a new teacher, and the apartment is with the company so you don’t have to worry so much about getting rid of every bit of furniture & breaking the lease. I think just tell them including the foreigner coordinator person at the head office asap what you want to do. Of course they will probably be unhappy that you’re leaving early, but do what you gotta do.
Just tell them you have to go. They’ll make you go talk to honbu and honbu will try to guilt you but that’s about it.
No need to justify your decision cut and run. The industry is a sham full of corruption and fraud.
Bottom feeding companies don’t deserve notice. I wouldn’t feel bad about the local staff, they’ve seen it all before a hundred times. Go and fulfil your potential back home! Can always take a trip here.
People just leave all the time. It’s best to give a couple of weeks notice but they can’t actually do anything to you.
I provided a letter of resignation with a determine date of when my last day will be.
Reality is, there is nothing they can do if you decide to leave. You might be treated poorly until your last day, but that varies based on management.
You’ll most likely have multiple zoom meetings with the lead trainer, but that’s about it.
You’re just a statistic to them. That’s the whole concept behind being a professional organisation. 30 minutes after they’ve processed the paperwork, you’re forgotten.
Just leave. Fuck them
Nobody cares about eikaiwa. People come and go all the time. Youll be replaced in no time.
>The main reason is that I have a passion for other things and it wasn’t until now that the opportunity arose to take that (back home), and you just learn things in a given 7 months sometimes unrelated to what is happening in your life right now.
The main reason isn’t that AEON is the best company in the world to work for leading you to be a very accomplished ackademic diyrector on camppus that the red carpets are layed out for, all over the world? Simply the best company around, is the reports around the webz better than JoyWanx and even better than HARTY HARTZ