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Rakuten is imploding

Managers requiring all employees to make Rakuten mobile sales is getting to the point of not only effecting performance evaluations but now thinly veiled threats from the top:

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Personally I’m hunting. People always say Rakuten is crap and the pay is not good but this hasn’t been my experience. This changes everything.

27 comments

  2. A shitty company stays shitty. More on the news at 11.

    Rakuten Mobile is a bad service, if it was any good, you wouldn’t have to pressure unrelated employees to force them to signup family members

  3. So like, programmers have to get their friends to sign up or something? Wtf is this? Outside of sales, NO ONE should be doing any kind of “sign ups”

  6. Do you work at their physical mobile phone shop? One problem is that reviews for their service sucks. I was thinking of switching to them because they have free international data, the main complaint is that cell reception doesn’t work inside big buildings, underground, subway, etc, until they fix that people are going to jump ship or hesitant to sign up.

  8. Rakuten’s recend bond offering for it’s mobile business definitely showed how shit the current situation is.

    What a Frankenstein’s Monster of a business.

  11. Wow! What a shitty company.
    And this week I was about to sign up for Rakuten Mobile… After seeing this I will search for another provider.

  12. It’s bs most expats have been complaining with management about their treatment of the program for months.

    a civil emai was sent to the upper management today telling them to shove their referrals up their a** and the sender broke the record for most online peer appraisals in a day.

    It reminds me of the 1984 part where everyone must scream at pictures of the states enemies. It’s a very cult like company and unfortunately my first experience working full time.

    At the end of the day the company is run by an egotistical SOB who looks zombified enough to be taking adrenochrome to survive. And the management are a bunch of spineless cowards who don’t have the backbone to say no to God emperor Mickey mouse.

    Seems the company is bleeding funds as a result of their own actions due to a bunch of executives sitting around the board room and circle jerking

  13. It’s not like I was rushing to sign up with Rakuten before, but demanding this of their engineers is like them holding up a giant sign that says, “we put short-term sales over stability and good user experience!”

    Not touching them with a 3.48 meter pole, now.

  15. I’m assuming that they aren’t clever enough to have included types spacing etc in this text to trace eventual leakers?

    This policy is insane… What are sales for then?

  18. Heard from a friend in the industry, that Rakuten is in lots of trouble. Losing lot of money every day.

  19. I have so many juicy screenshots I wish I could share.

    In the office they have stacks of pamphlets and they ask employees to post them in the mailboxes of your apartment building/local neighbourhood. Obviously they arent getting paid for this extra work.

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    *I dont work at Rakuten, but I know many people who do*

  21. Tried signing up before. Couldn’t. Gone with someone else now that didn’t make it so difficult. Rakuten? Purgatory is more like it, and less stressful too.

  25. Does that mean other branches of Rakuten are teetering too? I have stocks held in Rakuten Securities and don’t want to keep them there if they’re going bust.

  27. Also a “Rakutenian” this is driving me insane as I’m new to the country and don’t know anybody

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