Hoping this is an OK place to ask about this. I’m a haken employee here on a visa; I’m a seishain for the dispatch company and then work on-site at another company. I started work on November 1, but they told me I will not get any sort of paycheck until December 20. They said that on that day, they will pay me for November (1-30) but essentially I am always one month behind in getting paid.
This also means I’m having to pay for two months of living expenses up-front, mostly in cash, which I was not warned about at all. I have to buy two monthly commuter passes which are ¥30,000+ each (for November and December) before they even reimburse me for the first of them, in a month from now – and on top of that, I have utility bills, my phone bill, groceries, and rent, and I guess somehow they expect me to just be able to pay these even though I’ll be working for nearly two months until I get paid for the first time.
Is this expected or is something sketchy potentially going on here? What should I do?
by throwra8138