They are deceptive in their answers regarding fees and are unreliable with their communication as they take forever to reimburse employees for transportation or respond to the smallest of emails. Everyone should just avoid them at all cost.
They actually reimburse their employees for transportation?
That trumps companies I worked for, mind you this is more than a decade ago…
Not to carry water for a dispatch company, but my friend never had issues with transportation reimbursement. In fact when they wanted him to sub and he asked for the reimbursement up front because the sub commutes were messing with his budgeting, the company coordinator introducing him to the school picked him up at the station and gave him his full transportation pay over a month in advance..
The GU has a whole sub listing for Joytalk, but this is the horror story that I always remember.
Why do people think this is a thing? They do not repay your travel, only JET has that promise. These days they will say, “it’s possible” or, “Reimbursement available*” and then do everything they can to avoid paying. Unless your contract says, “Travel paid up to ### (amount)”, you are SOL.
I mean yeah. That’s been well established.
Yep that’s why I did not take their offer last March
A lot of dispatch companies are having a really hard time right now because of a recent change in labour law. I’m not at all defending them but they are struggling to climb through hoops financially.
They’ve been underbidding each other for contracts for many, many years, but they can’t stoop as low as they’d like anymore. This is more or less due to them now being required to pay ALTs shakai houken. This means the companies are navigating this new environment and trying to figure out how much they need to bid to get BoE contracts.
Of course, some companies still bid low and now they’re fucked financially. It’s possible this is what happened to Joytalk.
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They actually reimburse their employees for transportation?
That trumps companies I worked for, mind you this is more than a decade ago…
Not to carry water for a dispatch company, but my friend never had issues with transportation reimbursement. In fact when they wanted him to sub and he asked for the reimbursement up front because the sub commutes were messing with his budgeting, the company coordinator introducing him to the school picked him up at the station and gave him his full transportation pay over a month in advance..
The GU has a whole sub listing for Joytalk, but this is the horror story that I always remember.
https://generalunion.org/4701/
LOL
Why do people think this is a thing? They do not repay your travel, only JET has that promise. These days they will say, “it’s possible” or, “Reimbursement available*” and then do everything they can to avoid paying. Unless your contract says, “Travel paid up to ### (amount)”, you are SOL.
I mean yeah. That’s been well established.
Yep that’s why I did not take their offer last March
A lot of dispatch companies are having a really hard time right now because of a recent change in labour law. I’m not at all defending them but they are struggling to climb through hoops financially.
They’ve been underbidding each other for contracts for many, many years, but they can’t stoop as low as they’d like anymore. This is more or less due to them now being required to pay ALTs shakai houken. This means the companies are navigating this new environment and trying to figure out how much they need to bid to get BoE contracts.
Of course, some companies still bid low and now they’re fucked financially. It’s possible this is what happened to Joytalk.