GABA is making its English teachers register as “invoice-issuing businesses.” This teacher told ANN that it will be difficult to pay off his mortgage and raise his kid if his monthly after-tax income becomes ¥131,516 ($881)
GABA is making its English teachers register as “invoice-issuing businesses." This teacher told ANN that it will be difficult to pay off his mortgage and raise his kid if his monthly after-tax income becomes ¥131,516 ($881). https://t.co/W2Ca7NT4RD pic.twitter.com/oagdoxFTHm
— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) October 4, 2023
9 comments
Japan’s new Invoice System came into effect on October 1st.
* [Japanese Video: Coverage/Interview on ANN News](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjecSR0rWyI)
* [English Article: Tozen Gaba Workers Union steps up dispute for higher wages, against forced registration](https://tozenunion.org/tozen-gaba-workers-union-steps-up-dispute-for-higher-wages-against-forced-registration/)
* [Japanese Video: An American representing 700+ Gaba English teachers giving a speech at an anti-Invoice demonstration last week](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zt1W5ES7BU&t=5229s)
Can’t believe anyone would work there.
His take-home salary is just over 150,000 yen at the moment, which is pretty sad; I’d take this as an opportunity to find a better job.
Gaba is a truly shit company with horrible business practices and an amazing marketing team. Well… ok maybe not amazing but they’ve clearly spent a lot of money on station adverts and the like because their logo is omnipresent.
I’ve known quite a few people who signed up and left after a month or two. Grim.
I don’t even feel bad for him to be honest. I cannot imagine what kind of psycho has a kid and mortgage and yet *still* works at GABA.
The only person I ever knew who worked there was some random French guy, teaching English somehow (even though he had a strong French accent and would routinely fuck up grammar and spelling) and he was just sort of an interloper going to a Japanese school and partying.
Business? How does that work when you’re not on a visa that allows you to have a business? 🤔
As a former English teacher/ALT and did it over 10 years in Japan in Eikaiwas, Direct hires, dispatch companies and as a private tutor. It has only and will continue to get worse.
Many of these companies are willing to hire non natives and pay them less and for those who have stayed on long term will continue to suffer as long as they do ( For my last contract signing with Borderlink, I was in a room with their staff, 1 other American and the rest all Philipinas whom were all talking shit in Tagalo. Thought I was in the wrong place) The government then continuing to think its 2003 when ALTs used to be a amazing gig, continue to tax us and even though on your contract it might say you get 260-280k yen a month after your national tax, city tax, health insurance and pension, you might be lucky to walk away with 160k-180k yen in your pocket.
It continues to get worse after covid and at this stage you gotta be crazy to get in unless you are willing to go through hell and back.
I feel for the Japanese workers these days. I no longer live there, but over the decades it has turned from squeezing grime from stone, to sweat from stone, and now blood from stone in terms of how much the Japanese government is trying to squeeze out of the ordinary citizen.
He is raising a kid on 150,000 yen. Good lord!
Anyway, something doesn’t add up. How come he is only taking home 150,000 from 240,000?
It should be around 200,000.