If you are a competent employee, but higher ups just dislike you, they rarely like to fire you. Instead they just make your life hell or move you to the middle of the countryside and hope you quit.
I'm going to be mansplaining this cause younger kids need to know. This shit is called constructive dismissal. The boomer called it getting "iceboxed". A real thing that only now most modern law tried to make it illegal. It's actually created by the government job industry. Cause it's harder to fire a government worker. And costly as well due to the existence of a thing called government pension.
@@sayantanmazumdar3 a lot of the times, no one questions it. Even if the boss puts unreasonable expectations on an employe that they could never hope to fulfill, it’s not the boss’ fault. It’s the employee. They’re expected to do everything asked of them, and if they can’t, the mentality is just “oh well, guess they couldn’t cut it”. In Japan it is RARELY about keeping around actual COMPETENT employees that do good work, and it’s more about getting a posse of good LOOKING yes-men who brownnose constantly. Those are the people that get rewarded in the corporate hierarchy, not competent workers. If they’re competent, that’s just a bonus.
Now I get why Pete was so excited/surprised when his former students ran into him and Connor at the 2 star bar, he didn't expect to see any of them ever again
@@justcallmenoah5743 It’s not in Connor’s highlight video because he said he wasn’t doing stream sniping anymore, but someone else clipped it. Search up “Pete was recognized on Connor's stream by his students (IRL stream ft. Robcdee)” uploaded by “Shinobu ClipperDawg”
Mostly cause it is. They do everything not to stand out because once you do, and it's not when they want you to, you get a lot of flack for it. Gotta continue to show that public face, but when they are allowed to cut loose or be themselves, you'd be surprised how wild they get. When the Japanese are able to party, they party hard...too hard sometimes.
It's why I respect customer service in Britain more than anywhere else in the world, no one expects you to be happy so staff will openly shit on their job in front of customers, it feels sincere unlike this bizarro world thing American businesses do where they want staff to pretend to be happy, no one believes that shit.
@@drewpaupanekis4710 Manners are fine, its not difficult at all to be polite to a customer whilst simultaneously maintaining RBF. Trust me if you've ever worked customer service jobs you will know this way is way better for your mental health.
Pete is honestly so refreshing compared to most TH-camrs in Japan. He’s genuinely funny without trying, he seems like a nice guy and he’s not up himself at all. I’d love to see more or him.
Man, as sad as just leaving everything behind is, I have a bit of respect for those that do. Having to power to just disappear and leave everything and everyone you’ve known at the drop of a hat. Shit must be incredibly hard for some people to do.
Not hard for people who came to Japan for the sake of just coming to Japan instead of actually teaching. But the passionate workers do get dejected after experiencing the brutal working culture. That's why the JET committee now weeds out any applicants who seem a bit too enthusiastic about the anime culture and look forward to working in big cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
damn..if i know you can do that i fricking going to do it last time. Hahaha, no need to hasle with all the cleaning, house inspection, signing off insurance ,changing address/moving out form at ward office,banks, post office, entertaiment service etc. Here I am thought they will chase me and press charges/claims once I return back homecountry.
@@druegnor1703 To be fair, we don't know that they DON'T fine them. My take away from this discussion is that it happens and it's (unfortunately) common, but since they haven't personally done it, they might just not know if there are consequence.
I'm not Japanese and never stepped foot there, but I did this to my jobs before. It's not a good thing at all, let alone to be proud of, but they never tried to call me back or sue me or anything. One worst (corporate heavy animation company with micromanagement issues) workplace I've ever worked at, they're the one who drove me out for not being an ideally behaving animator or something along those lines. This was even before 2020. It's both individual issues and company issues alike (society too, I guess). Up to this day I can't work outside with other people and just stay at home, doing my own thing offline and online. If I'm a Japanese I'll be called a hikikomori, no other excuse.
I heard it was to prevent anyone from becoming a dominant influence. I think they still keep their salary when they move schools, but it might be different in private schools. For public, it's required that you move every few years unless you teach a specialty at a technical/commercial/farm SHS. Also keeps people from getting stuck with a bad placement for too long just because they rubbed someone the wrong way.
The youtuber gaijin Goombah has told his experience as an English teacher in Japan and the reason he quit. One day, the students just weren't motivated to learn, so another teacher just did a bs activity to pacify them. When he confronted that teacher, she said these students will never need to learn English because most will never leave their hometown. This deeply offended Goombah, and when he asked why he was even their, the other teacher said "to teach the kids that want to learn english." He quit the next day because he was told to his face by school staff that his efforts will go to waste. He didn't want to leave the kids behind, but he knew staying would only continue to waste everyone's time.
Although this applies to a bunch of other subjects than just english in many other countries where students openly waste teachers efforts. (That was mine and many others experiences in subjects like math and sciences in sweden at least)
The key is to teach the children why English is important, even if they never leave home. It is inevitable for Japan to need to ramp up it's English skills in the near future
I actually taught at a “delinquent” school too. All girls school too. They would NOT stop talking about my tits and it just made teaching a little awkward. They were like “your boobs are amazing. GIVE THEM TO ME!!!” 😂😂😂 They weren’t too bad tho. I had more issues with planning lessons with my teachers because they didn’t focus on anything so we ended up playing the same damn bingo game for the entire year. Outside of class they were actually really nice and actually wanted to learn a bit of American culture
i did very briefly as well but at my hometown, im not sure in your case but i had no previous training whatsoever or any heads up on how to react on these situations as the teaching was compulsory for university students, fortunately the girls were always very sweet and I got the feeling they were misunderstood and they were there mostly because how rough it may have been at their homes. These schools definitely need experienced and specialized people not just anyone in their 20's to help them out as I did feel helpless in that situation.
I have been teaching in Japan for 4 years now, and I can say that I have been lucky enough to stay at the same school for 3 years. But I have seen other Japanese teachers change schools. While I understand the idea of keeping the teachers fresh, I worry that they are thinking about the adults in the situation and not really thinking about the children. I know that many children have difficult home lives, and I worry that the lack of stable adults in their lives may cause harm... such as separation anxiety and connection problems.
I mean at the end of the day teachers aren't their for your therapy, they aren't there to help you through your life's struggles. Is it nice that a lot of them tend to do that? Yeah ofc but that's not in their job description so it shouldn't be on them to stay in an environment that is making them slowly lose it
I am a substitute teacher in America, and I have already been to a few classes where the main teacher just quit at the beginning of the school year. The class went from sub to sub until they could find a long term sub or a certified teacher. The situation is so bad in my state that you don't technically need a teaching license to get hired as a teacher. You just need to be currently enrolled in a license program. So this happens at American schools too.
The teachers switching out every few years doesn’t just happen in Japan. It happens in the Korean public school system as well except it’s 4-5 years max before the teachers are moved to a new school under their metropolitan/provincial education office.
The problems with renting an apartment (the worry that the tenant will just up and leave) also exist here. On top of having two different renting systems, securing housing loans from the bank have become extremely difficult too regardless of whether you’re a citizen or a foreigner (although it’s still substantially harder as a foreign resident depending on which visa type you have.)
I heard from a commenter in a different video & channel that a foreign educator if hired in a private school, they'll be no different than a slave, pretty much. Being heavily micromanaged, got told what to do, having only a small boardinghouse & shared space, isolated from other teachers etc... It's just hell.
@@MollyHJohns They basically target foreign teachers to hire because the competent teachers in Korea go teach in Cram schools or Private academies instead of working in the public school system.
@@MollyHJohns Pretty much. And part of the reason for this is that Korea requires all foreigners to have a "Letter of Release" when sponsored by an employer. Legally, you can't leave one employer for another unless you complete your contract. And some (read "many") employers will treat you worse when they realize that you don't want to renew your contracts with them, even going as far as making up reasons to make you quit sooner so they won't have to pay you severance. Others will verbally fire you and then tell immigration that you "quit" so your visa will be canceled in mere days after the fact (meaning you'd be staying in the country illegally.)
@@Hamidmahdi Oof! Yeah, that's harsh for a lot of teachers! And it doesn't help that the housing crisis in Korea is very bad (I've heard that having housing debts are one of the most common debts in Korea)...
The teacher rotation is definitely a thing in Okinawa. Many first-year teachers get sent to the more remote islands or the schools that are pretty out of the way on the main island (way up north in the mountains for example). My wife's friend spent 5 years in Ishigaki at the start of her career before she was finally allowed to return to the main island to teach.
So I work as a substitute English teacher in Kannagawa and I've definitely had assignments where they just tell me "oh yeah that guy just quit suddenly and went back home." It's a lot of different reasons but one of them for sure is not feeling appreciated. Part of it is the culture of treating ALTs as temporary outsiders but also it's cause they just don't pay us anything. the ALT companies will even undercut each other when it comes to bidding for the school districts and you can bet those discounted prices don't come at the expense of the higher ups.
I totally understand the urge to just leave a job. My last job I had made me so tired and miserable that I just sent in my keys and resignation letter and never came back even though I was supposed to work out my last two weeks. I couldn't stand working a single day more at that job. I'm pretty sure I have some kind of PTSD from how terrible it was. I'll still get anxiety thinking about it even though I haven't been there in 2 years.
Good for you, at least you left before your 2 weeks were up. When I quit, I left my 2 weeks and stayed until the end, but I deeply wish I just left without notice. Those 2 weeks were miserable to stay through. I avoid the general area whenever I wanna go out now just in case I run into my old boss ...
I had a student just come up and slap me once. Totally at random. She just laughed and walked away. It was so random. Japanese students can be very poorly behaved sometimes.
That reminds me of a story of a school near my school Final day of school before graduation a kid (I know the name but probably shouldn’t comment it) challenged his maths teacher to a fist fight after school, they were nightmares for a each other for 5 years, the teacher actually agreed and kicked his ass behind the bins the second he graduated The maths teacher wanted it more
@@nathansteele4358 Only in Japan can you fight a student because they've graduated. Reminds me of the head English teacher who assigned me to the almost entirely female senior class and suggested that I find a girlfriend among them. As long as I waited until they graduated, it wouldn't be a problem, and the other teachers seemed to agree. Too weird for me. Cool class, though, and I got to have students I had in first year in the third year as well, which isn't that common for foreign English teachers.
I keep hearing about this Japan work culture shit and how bad the teaching is, and it has really made me rethink working in Japan. Not sure what I want to do. I'm from the U.S., so finding work in California or Australia has also popped up in my mind, since I'd assume the need for people who know Japanese is stronger there than where I currently live. I've been grinding my JP studies for awhile now and really want to do stuff with it someday, I'm just not sure what exactly yet or where to go. I've still got another year of college at least but it really sucks and can be a bit demotivating to hear that one of the most popular options in my field of study is terrible and demoralizing. But I definitely dont want to stop cuz I've made it way too far to stop now and actually do enjoy studying Japanese despite how difficult it can be. I also have such strong attachments to Japan since it's been an influence on me since my childhood, so id rather not destroy my view of it by having a terrible experience there too...I'm thinking leaving Japan as a vacation spot that I frequent often is probably for the best, but idk yet...shit's complicated.
Every place has its own flavor of dysfunctional work environments. It's just a matter of figuring out which is the most tolerable for you. To some people California is worse, to others Japan is worse.
Yeah, the unfortunate truth is that Japanese as a language is just not very useful in a business/professional sense, unless you REALLY want to go work in Japan. If you're looking at international business, languages like Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, German, and French are probably the most commonly used ones.
It really does depend greatly. I work in a school in Japan too, yet I really enjoy my job and living here is fantastic. Although there are many of the problems that most people know already (bureaucracy, convoluted, endless meetings about nothing in particular), I was very lucky in that I work at a more academic school, so the kids are focused and diligent, and we have a lot of resources as quite a bit of money is poured into the school. I also live in a rather rural prefecture, so I get to live in a big apartment for really cheap and I’m surrounded by beautiful nature and the friendliest people. However, I’ve heard it’s quite a bit different grinding it out in the big city. Really depends.
As a JET in Ehime Prefecture I def sometimes found the living situation annoying, plus my BoE was not the greatest at using us effectively. However, I would argue that Ehime has a lot more going on for it than people think, people just don't come to it often because it's expensive to get off of Shikoku. But it honestly mainly just depends on what you're looking for. Ehime is awash with great local culture, good food, and interesting places and people, heck we even have some of the most iconic festivals in the world, as well as the 88 Temples pilgrimage, which lets you see how absolutely beautiful the island is. Honestly I've found I enjoyed living here way more than I ever did in a city, especially after getting a car. moral of the story: come visit Ehime! we'd love to have you haha
I'm currently teaching in China as an English teacher for 3 years now in a rural village in Dongyang. The students are pretty much can be running wild and be trolling to get a reaction. Most of the times I either actually teach English class or babysitting to give them a pacifiers on some. Lately foreigner teachers want to teach subject teaching while using English words for them to learn (I'm teaching music & photography class) and the rest of Chinese teachers are solely teaching English class. Some of students behaviors are pretty much Twitch chat so I had to figure out how to manage the students behavior. In the end, the school still wanted me to stay because they see me as a value for students to learn. It's just literally out of the wazoo honestly. Edit: There's some rent boys in the comment replies with toxic cancerous people with miserable lives (rhyming accidentally). Avoid to reply if possible & keep positive vibes 🤙🏻
I think education in general will change in the near future, I slept through most of highschool classes, ditched most of my college courses. Not that I don't want to study, but pretty much taught myself everything with the internet, it was just more time efficient. Working as a software engineer now, I basically Google crap for a living.
In university for architecture the amount of stuff we just taught ourselves off google and TH-cam was ridiculous. The profs would just expect you to know how to use these programs without an actual course on it, like we jumped from hand drafting to suddenly needing to be proficient in a certain rendering program we were required to use. By the time I was in my Masters and TAing for the undergrads they’d changed it up a bit and I was actually teaching a supplementary course on stuff I’d literally taught myself😅 but I look back and I’m like, wow I gave you 10k a year to teach myself stuff off google, it’s not worth it.
The more of Peter I see, the more I become a fan. i love him, he is great. like that one friend that you are so glad you are in the same group with. Seriously the best.
I've been an ALT for 4 years and maybe I've just been lucky, but I've honestly had a great experience. I've been at the same two schools the entire time, all the staff at the schools have been wonderful to me, the students are great, and the job is really easy. I think a lot of the experience just depends on the company you get with and schools you end up with. It's really been a pretty good job.
When I worked in Eastern China, had an American guy start working with us with only a small bag a set of clothes.... He done a runner from his job and wife in Tokyo (whilst she was in the shower).. He then done a runner on us 4 months later to Taiwan when we done a weekend school trip to Xi'An.. I only know because he left his Gmail signed in
A friend of mine went to Japan to teach English (through a private program, not JET) and complained a lot about how hard it was to find a place that would rent to a foreigner because of people abandoning their lease (I think the company he applied through assists with housing or something) and then when he actually got to Japan he realized he'd never finalized his work visa and ended up flying back to the States within 48 hours
I will say the way english teachers get moved around within a company does depend on the company. As an example, with our company you can be at the same public school for more than 7 years, if the school asks for you to be. The reasoning is that ALTs aren't legally "teachers" so we don't have to follow the same rules. Basically the ling and short of it is if you can do your job well and make it so the school likes you, maybe even go a bit above and beyond so they request you return, you should be pretty safe in your position and will get the same schools. This is of course assuming that the schools you are teaching at stay in the same grouping when the contracts update, but generally the Board of Education will try and make the schools requests happen with regards to the ALTs placement. On the flipside if you are kind of shit your schools can request a different ALT and then you get tossed to a new location.
@Pud Pete every ALT is a foreigner though, so the racist in question isn't gonna come out against you if you do a good job since if they do you will just be replaced by a worse foreigner. Don't get me wrong they won't like you, but they won't raise an issue to the BoE about you either
I've only ever taught in America at a collage level, but even then I only did it for 2-3 years before just retiring and doing only lab work. It's very disheartening spending time and effort only to have a handful of people out of thousands respond with interest and the higher ups don't feel like changing any part of a system as long as it is perceived to work to those who "matter".
ghosting is becoming even more common in the workplace here in the US. i don't typically ghost my job in the very beginning but eventually i will just straight up walk out and get a job somewhere else.
relatable as fuck, except on in my 2nd semester of my junior year, so still over a year to go for me. You're so close man, just push through and make it to the end. You worked so hard to get this far, the finish line is right in front of you. In just a few months it'll all be over. You got this!! And if you ever feel ready to quit...just watch this: th-cam.com/video/KxGRhd_iWuE/w-d-xo.html
@@Kiwi-ku1ui The problem is that in order to get any good paying job you need to either have connections at a workplace or have prior experience. I have applied to dozens of places and have just been ghosted. Then once you do get a job you have to deal with people that for whatever reason go out of their way to be difficult. Leading to unnecssary bullshit. You can have the easiest job in the world, but all it takes is one person to make life hell. Then if you live in the U.S you have to deal with the bullshit that is health insurance. Fuck that shit. Really college was a vacation compared to the real world. If only I knew how good I had it back then.
10:12 Wait. What’s the word that Joey used here? よにえ？ようにへ？ What’s the romanji for the “escaping/suddenly disappearing” that Joey said here? Asking for research purposes 👀
This tenure concept is used in a few jobs. In Australia Police have tenure at every station. Generally it's 2-4 years and then you have to move. It even covers specialised fields within Police like forensics, family violence unit ect. The primary reasoning was that it was supposed to help prevent corruption. Really all it achieves is uprooting families and creating a divide between people because they know their position is impermanent.
we have a similar shuffle at the post office in canada, every 5 years they restructure the routes and they all go up for bid so if you don't have a lot of seniority and you have a desirable route you can get bumped to different route
I always loved questions like "oppai suki desu ka" because the foreign English teacher was always written off as a bit of a clown. Just respond in English and it's OK. "Yeah! They're great!" The kid's gotten some attention and you can move on. Once a girl asked who of the male teachers had the biggest (ahem), since she knew we went to the onsen the night before... Unfortunately that one I had to waffle.
I’m a teacher in America and wonder if I’d enjoy teaching in Japan for maybe a year or two. Primarily would be to broaden my horizons. I already live in a rural area so I wouldn’t mind that too much. Though being away from my family for an extended period of time would be difficult.
*_TLDR:- The topic starts at _**_6:20_**_._* 6:12 - "I never got an S by the way, I got a lot of Ls." What a quote to put on a T-shirt, Peter. LOL 6:34 - "I had a friend who taught in the middle of mountains in Mie." Joey, is that Gaijin Goombah? I remember him talking about his teaching experience in one of Joey's videos. 10:40 - Guys, remember when the boys complained about how strict renting an apartment was? Haha.
I work in the USA as a software developer and our industry basically treats foreigners the same way. All the "Americans" (or people who sound American, so Canadians or whatever) are treated like they are "on the team" while all the foreigners are treated like they are little more than tools. If there's some sort of team event like a pot luck, they're just left out. They are usually excluded from big decisions about team processes. What's funny, is that it doesn't seem to be the developers that do this. It's usually management. They seem to consider the Americans their 'real' team while the foreigners are just 'filler' it's super weird and honestly causes a lot of problems. In the few instances where I've been able to take on any sort of technical lead type of role on a project, the very first thing I do is bring EVERYONE into the decisionmaking and make sure they all know they are a part of the team. It makes a huge difference almost immediately.
Even if you get sent to a rural or semi-rural area in Japan, it's almost always fine. The public transportation is the best in the world and you'll have at least a decent-sized town nearby. Also, the festivals are by far the most interesting in the small towns, and festivals are one of the absolute coolest parts of Japan. Maybe I'm a bit biased, though, because the Banshu area has some of the best... Himeji reprazent!
I personally wouldnt mind being in a remote place in Japan. I really love the countryside where I from but I'm also not from a mountainous area, so I can't be sure
This is so true. Currently an ALT in Japan and yes every year there is a chance that the teachers move school. For ES schools it’s usually 6 years and maybe JHS 3 years and least in my location. Obviously this can change but the Board of Education of the prefecture or city the teacher is in. Lol praying now that I can say one more year at my JHS to see my last group of kids graduate.
10:11 - Can anyone transcribe this one Japanese word for me? I want to look it up, but I can't figure out exactly how it's spelled. yonie, younie, yoni ei, yoniee, ionie, ioniye, oniye, ounie, ouniyei, etc, etc.
I believe at one of his schools he was able to get a position mid-year because the previous teacher had an inappropriate relationship with one of the kids and was fired, I remember the story from when he was on Abroad in Japan so I'm guessing it was that.
I don't know if it's being in America but the more I hear about working in Japan the more I feel bad I mean I know my country's all mess a messy mess but as bad as my work life in the states gets I've never thought of just going nope I'm out and disappearing completely.😢
the whole just leaving thing is sort of similar in China, especially when covid happened. but due to the way the visa works you can't just leave and get another job in China.
2-3 years for teachers is the standard rotation period in my area. There is no sense of teamwork, teachers spend half their first year getting caught up on what their students are capable of and learning how to team teach with people who might be ready to rotate next year anyway. It is the single worst idea in education I've ever seen and the students suffer massively from it.
I dont know who any of you are but thanks for letting me as an outsider listen in on this topic. Was quite interesting, I like the idea of one not sitting on their laurels.
Some people just built to just bail whenever. Also, funny the Texan left because of Corona when he... Probably got hit by the cold snap in Texas. Unless power outages were happening in Japan to. Wouldn't be surprised.
I've never heard of yonige it sounds wild but I can remember when I was younger and just had a suit case, if I had the mind set I do now how easy it would have been to just bail out. Theres yonige-ya that help facilitate people to move. Wild.
got a timestamp for when joey says the word? edit: assuming you're asking about 10:10, which i think he's saying "yonige" as "yonigeya" is a person who "helps others flee" "a fly by night arranger" edit2: 夜逃げ "night flight", so yeah thats what he was saying.
Yea I think Joey said yonige. But I think another term that's more accurate at describing the situation is "蒸発" (Jouhatsu) which means evaporate. It describes the act of disappearing from their established lives without a trace.
夜逃げ(yonige) - running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act
Honestly, from a pedagogical perspective it is not a terrible idea to have teachers move schools. It makes sure that teachers are still passionate and challenged in their working environment.
It also treats them like they're not allowed to take root anywhere. Their futures are essentially forever insecure because who can start a family or have deep social bonds when you're forced to move every so many years? Incredibly dehumanizing.
This incredibly depends on country, if you are lacking teachers or do not have a mass abundance of them, this is a horrible idea, because it makes the job soo much more unattractive, which will largely decrease the supply of teachers. You could compensate with higher wages etc. though
No, from a pedagogical perspective building a relationship with students is so much more important and relevant to their learning and wellbeing, as well as the INCREDIBLE amount of work that goes to getting to know which student needs what to thrive and how to adapt your class to help them achieve that and build a good enough raport with them to help them.
@@sagephilwhere I teach that’s not really an issue. There are so many schools within an hour’s drive, you could rotate every 3-5 years and never have to move house. The public transport is great too.
If you are a competent employee, but higher ups just dislike you, they rarely like to fire you. Instead they just make your life hell or move you to the middle of the countryside and hope you quit.
I'm going to be mansplaining this cause younger kids need to know. This shit is called constructive dismissal. The boomer called it getting "iceboxed". A real thing that only now most modern law tried to make it illegal. It's actually created by the government job industry. Cause it's harder to fire a government worker. And costly as well due to the existence of a thing called government pension.
Well, who's going to explain to the bosses that they fired the productive employee who was a potential threat to their own position?
@@sayantanmazumdar3 a lot of the times, no one questions it. Even if the boss puts unreasonable expectations on an employe that they could never hope to fulfill, it’s not the boss’ fault. It’s the employee. They’re expected to do everything asked of them, and if they can’t, the mentality is just “oh well, guess they couldn’t cut it”.
In Japan it is RARELY about keeping around actual COMPETENT employees that do good work, and it’s more about getting a posse of good LOOKING yes-men who brownnose constantly. Those are the people that get rewarded in the corporate hierarchy, not competent workers. If they’re competent, that’s just a bonus.
@@spiderdude2099 I was just agreeing with your opinion by asking a rhetorical question.
Slightly true in a few fields of work because Japanese people don’t like to confront others
Taking note on drama shows doesn’t always work
Now I get why Pete was so excited/surprised when his former students ran into him and Connor at the 2 star bar, he didn't expect to see any of them ever again
Source?
@@justcallmenoah5743 One of Connor's livestreams.
@@pennyinheaven I'll have to take a look for it, thank you very much!
@@justcallmenoah5743 It’s not in Connor’s highlight video because he said he wasn’t doing stream sniping anymore, but someone else clipped it. Search up “Pete was recognized on Connor's stream by his students (IRL stream ft. Robcdee)” uploaded by “Shinobu ClipperDawg”
@@jst_TV Pete at that moment: Nooooooo
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Japanese people usually scare me with just how well behaved they seem to be. It’s like an act you put on for customer service but ALL the time
Mostly cause it is. They do everything not to stand out because once you do, and it's not when they want you to, you get a lot of flack for it. Gotta continue to show that public face, but when they are allowed to cut loose or be themselves, you'd be surprised how wild they get. When the Japanese are able to party, they party hard...too hard sometimes.
Truly soul-draining.
It's why I respect customer service in Britain more than anywhere else in the world, no one expects you to be happy so staff will openly shit on their job in front of customers, it feels sincere unlike this bizarro world thing American businesses do where they want staff to pretend to be happy, no one believes that shit.
@@111111hakar it’s called having good manners, It’s a shame British people don’t seem to have it.
@@drewpaupanekis4710 Manners are fine, its not difficult at all to be polite to a customer whilst simultaneously maintaining RBF.
Trust me if you've ever worked customer service jobs you will know this way is way better for your mental health.
Pete is honestly so refreshing compared to most TH-camrs in Japan. He’s genuinely funny without trying, he seems like a nice guy and he’s not up himself at all. I’d love to see more or him.
Pete the Great
He also pays in full : )
Isn’t it a bit of a generalization to say that most TH-camrs in japan are unfunny, not nice, and up themselves?
@@m.i7211 dont take take in negative side......refresh mean something new
Man, as sad as just leaving everything behind is, I have a bit of respect for those that do.
Having to power to just disappear and leave everything and everyone you’ve known at the drop of a hat. Shit must be incredibly hard for some people to do.
Not hard for people who came to Japan for the sake of just coming to Japan instead of actually teaching. But the passionate workers do get dejected after experiencing the brutal working culture. That's why the JET committee now weeds out any applicants who seem a bit too enthusiastic about the anime culture and look forward to working in big cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
damn..if i know you can do that i fricking going to do it last time. Hahaha, no need to hasle with all the cleaning, house inspection, signing off insurance ,changing address/moving out form at ward office,banks, post office, entertaiment service etc. Here I am thought they will chase me and press charges/claims once I return back homecountry.
@@druegnor1703 To be fair, we don't know that they DON'T fine them. My take away from this discussion is that it happens and it's (unfortunately) common, but since they haven't personally done it, they might just not know if there are consequence.
@@henrygreen2096 nah its just a joke, you should do all the necessary procedures..be a good citizen wherever you go.
I'm not Japanese and never stepped foot there, but I did this to my jobs before. It's not a good thing at all, let alone to be proud of, but they never tried to call me back or sue me or anything. One worst (corporate heavy animation company with micromanagement issues) workplace I've ever worked at, they're the one who drove me out for not being an ideally behaving animator or something along those lines. This was even before 2020.
It's both individual issues and company issues alike (society too, I guess). Up to this day I can't work outside with other people and just stay at home, doing my own thing offline and online. If I'm a Japanese I'll be called a hikikomori, no other excuse.
Huh, I think I heard Chris mention they rotate out teachers to keep their salaries low because it resets their seniority.
Probably multiple reasons, depending on who you ask.
Is that only in japan? Because if that happen in my country and the teacher don't want to, the teacher can sue them
They started to do something similar where I live in Mexico. Teachers get a new work contract every certain months so they can't add up seniority
I heard it was to prevent anyone from becoming a dominant influence. I think they still keep their salary when they move schools, but it might be different in private schools. For public, it's required that you move every few years unless you teach a specialty at a technical/commercial/farm SHS. Also keeps people from getting stuck with a bad placement for too long just because they rubbed someone the wrong way.
The youtuber gaijin Goombah has told his experience as an English teacher in Japan and the reason he quit. One day, the students just weren't motivated to learn, so another teacher just did a bs activity to pacify them. When he confronted that teacher, she said these students will never need to learn English because most will never leave their hometown. This deeply offended Goombah, and when he asked why he was even their, the other teacher said "to teach the kids that want to learn english." He quit the next day because he was told to his face by school staff that his efforts will go to waste. He didn't want to leave the kids behind, but he knew staying would only continue to waste everyone's time.
Although this applies to a bunch of other subjects than just english in many other countries where students openly waste teachers efforts. (That was mine and many others experiences in subjects like math and sciences in sweden at least)
I've never really left my town either but here I am still using English every day now even at work. Many jobs just require it these days.
The key is to teach the children why English is important, even if they never leave home. It is inevitable for Japan to need to ramp up it's English skills in the near future
That’s really sad that they think so little of their students.
@@White_Recluse it's japan what do you expect
I actually taught at a “delinquent” school too. All girls school too. They would NOT stop talking about my tits and it just made teaching a little awkward. They were like “your boobs are amazing. GIVE THEM TO ME!!!” 😂😂😂
They weren’t too bad tho. I had more issues with planning lessons with my teachers because they didn’t focus on anything so we ended up playing the same damn bingo game for the entire year. Outside of class they were actually really nice and actually wanted to learn a bit of American culture
i did very briefly as well but at my hometown, im not sure in your case but i had no previous training whatsoever or any heads up on how to react on these situations as the teaching was compulsory for university students, fortunately the girls were always very sweet and I got the feeling they were misunderstood and they were there mostly because how rough it may have been at their homes. These schools definitely need experienced and specialized people not just anyone in their 20's to help them out as I did feel helpless in that situation.
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I'd read that manga.
@@Red-mg4ro time to stop consuming porn
I have been teaching in Japan for 4 years now, and I can say that I have been lucky enough to stay at the same school for 3 years. But I have seen other Japanese teachers change schools. While I understand the idea of keeping the teachers fresh, I worry that they are thinking about the adults in the situation and not really thinking about the children. I know that many children have difficult home lives, and I worry that the lack of stable adults in their lives may cause harm... such as separation anxiety and connection problems.
Oh you dont have to worry about how it may happen to children, cause its already happening to them sadly
In japan mental health issues effectively dont exist as far as the public is concerned
@Pud Pete its not the cause but if they already experience abuse then constantly switching teachers can exasperate the issue
@Pud Pete i don't think I said that it was the main cause. I simply suspect that it could be an element that contributes to problems.
I mean at the end of the day teachers aren't their for your therapy, they aren't there to help you through your life's struggles. Is it nice that a lot of them tend to do that? Yeah ofc but that's not in their job description so it shouldn't be on them to stay in an environment that is making them slowly lose it
I am a substitute teacher in America, and I have already been to a few classes where the main teacher just quit at the beginning of the school year. The class went from sub to sub until they could find a long term sub or a certified teacher. The situation is so bad in my state that you don't technically need a teaching license to get hired as a teacher. You just need to be currently enrolled in a license program. So this happens at American schools too.
Same happened to me when I was subbing
The teachers switching out every few years doesn’t just happen in Japan. It happens in the Korean public school system as well except it’s 4-5 years max before the teachers are moved to a new school under their metropolitan/provincial education office.
The problems with renting an apartment (the worry that the tenant will just up and leave) also exist here. On top of having two different renting systems, securing housing loans from the bank have become extremely difficult too regardless of whether you’re a citizen or a foreigner (although it’s still substantially harder as a foreign resident depending on which visa type you have.)
I heard from a commenter in a different video & channel that a foreign educator if hired in a private school, they'll be no different than a slave, pretty much. Being heavily micromanaged, got told what to do, having only a small boardinghouse & shared space, isolated from other teachers etc... It's just hell.
@@MollyHJohns They basically target foreign teachers to hire because the competent teachers in Korea go teach in Cram schools or Private academies instead of working in the public school system.
@@MollyHJohns Pretty much. And part of the reason for this is that Korea requires all foreigners to have a "Letter of Release" when sponsored by an employer. Legally, you can't leave one employer for another unless you complete your contract. And some (read "many") employers will treat you worse when they realize that you don't want to renew your contracts with them, even going as far as making up reasons to make you quit sooner so they won't have to pay you severance. Others will verbally fire you and then tell immigration that you "quit" so your visa will be canceled in mere days after the fact (meaning you'd be staying in the country illegally.)
@@Hamidmahdi
Oof! Yeah, that's harsh for a lot of teachers! And it doesn't help that the housing crisis in Korea is very bad (I've heard that having housing debts are one of the most common debts in Korea)...
The teacher rotation is definitely a thing in Okinawa. Many first-year teachers get sent to the more remote islands or the schools that are pretty out of the way on the main island (way up north in the mountains for example). My wife's friend spent 5 years in Ishigaki at the start of her career before she was finally allowed to return to the main island to teach.
So I work as a substitute English teacher in Kannagawa and I've definitely had assignments where they just tell me "oh yeah that guy just quit suddenly and went back home." It's a lot of different reasons but one of them for sure is not feeling appreciated. Part of it is the culture of treating ALTs as temporary outsiders but also it's cause they just don't pay us anything. the ALT companies will even undercut each other when it comes to bidding for the school districts and you can bet those discounted prices don't come at the expense of the higher ups.
As a teacher in Thailand, I get that feeling of splitting. Sometimes schools don't stop with their shit and you are out, it doesn't inspire loyalty.
I totally understand the urge to just leave a job. My last job I had made me so tired and miserable that I just sent in my keys and resignation letter and never came back even though I was supposed to work out my last two weeks. I couldn't stand working a single day more at that job. I'm pretty sure I have some kind of PTSD from how terrible it was. I'll still get anxiety thinking about it even though I haven't been there in 2 years.
Good for you, at least you left before your 2 weeks were up. When I quit, I left my 2 weeks and stayed until the end, but I deeply wish I just left without notice. Those 2 weeks were miserable to stay through. I avoid the general area whenever I wanna go out now just in case I run into my old boss ...
dont fret about those 2 weeks as they are simply etiquette
where did u work? 😭
You don't go to the country that developed the concept of the Joestar secret technique and just ignore it yknow.
True😂
I had a student just come up and slap me once. Totally at random. She just laughed and walked away. It was so random. Japanese students can be very poorly behaved sometimes.
Hearing the shit that goes on in America and knowing what my own class has done to teachers, this is such a weird thing to read to me
Very poorly for sure.
That reminds me of a story of a school near my school
Final day of school before graduation a kid (I know the name but probably shouldn’t comment it) challenged his maths teacher to a fist fight after school, they were nightmares for a each other for 5 years, the teacher actually agreed and kicked his ass behind the bins the second he graduated
The maths teacher wanted it more
@@nathansteele4358 Only in Japan can you fight a student because they've graduated. Reminds me of the head English teacher who assigned me to the almost entirely female senior class and suggested that I find a girlfriend among them. As long as I waited until they graduated, it wouldn't be a problem, and the other teachers seemed to agree. Too weird for me. Cool class, though, and I got to have students I had in first year in the third year as well, which isn't that common for foreign English teachers.
the synchronized "Yeah." at 8:30 was scary
Wtf do they all say "it's pretty special" too?
wtf thats going on the compilation
I keep hearing about this Japan work culture shit and how bad the teaching is, and it has really made me rethink working in Japan. Not sure what I want to do. I'm from the U.S., so finding work in California or Australia has also popped up in my mind, since I'd assume the need for people who know Japanese is stronger there than where I currently live. I've been grinding my JP studies for awhile now and really want to do stuff with it someday, I'm just not sure what exactly yet or where to go. I've still got another year of college at least but it really sucks and can be a bit demotivating to hear that one of the most popular options in my field of study is terrible and demoralizing. But I definitely dont want to stop cuz I've made it way too far to stop now and actually do enjoy studying Japanese despite how difficult it can be.
I also have such strong attachments to Japan since it's been an influence on me since my childhood, so id rather not destroy my view of it by having a terrible experience there too...I'm thinking leaving Japan as a vacation spot that I frequent often is probably for the best, but idk yet...shit's complicated.
Every place has its own flavor of dysfunctional work environments. It's just a matter of figuring out which is the most tolerable for you. To some people California is worse, to others Japan is worse.
Yeah, the unfortunate truth is that Japanese as a language is just not very useful in a business/professional sense, unless you REALLY want to go work in Japan. If you're looking at international business, languages like Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, German, and French are probably the most commonly used ones.
It really does depend greatly. I work in a school in Japan too, yet I really enjoy my job and living here is fantastic. Although there are many of the problems that most people know already (bureaucracy, convoluted, endless meetings about nothing in particular), I was very lucky in that I work at a more academic school, so the kids are focused and diligent, and we have a lot of resources as quite a bit of money is poured into the school. I also live in a rather rural prefecture, so I get to live in a big apartment for really cheap and I’m surrounded by beautiful nature and the friendliest people. However, I’ve heard it’s quite a bit different grinding it out in the big city. Really depends.
Don’t go to California please don’t
One option to consider is translation. Translation in media for games or similar could get you opportunities to travel between sites potentially.
As a JET in Ehime Prefecture I def sometimes found the living situation annoying, plus my BoE was not the greatest at using us effectively. However, I would argue that Ehime has a lot more going on for it than people think, people just don't come to it often because it's expensive to get off of Shikoku. But it honestly mainly just depends on what you're looking for. Ehime is awash with great local culture, good food, and interesting places and people, heck we even have some of the most iconic festivals in the world, as well as the 88 Temples pilgrimage, which lets you see how absolutely beautiful the island is. Honestly I've found I enjoyed living here way more than I ever did in a city, especially after getting a car.
moral of the story: come visit Ehime! we'd love to have you haha
Invitation accepted :)
Send tickets.
Soon ,still on progress applying CoE as Specified Skilled Workers
Thanks for the invitation.
Absolutely loved this in depth talk on teaching in Japan. ❤️💕 Pete was great on giving a look into the experience.
I'm currently teaching in China as an English teacher for 3 years now in a rural village in Dongyang. The students are pretty much can be running wild and be trolling to get a reaction. Most of the times I either actually teach English class or babysitting to give them a pacifiers on some. Lately foreigner teachers want to teach subject teaching while using English words for them to learn (I'm teaching music & photography class) and the rest of Chinese teachers are solely teaching English class. Some of students behaviors are pretty much Twitch chat so I had to figure out how to manage the students behavior. In the end, the school still wanted me to stay because they see me as a value for students to learn.
It's just literally out of the wazoo honestly.
Edit: There's some rent boys in the comment replies with toxic cancerous people with miserable lives (rhyming accidentally). Avoid to reply if possible & keep positive vibes 🤙🏻
Oh god. I've taught a lot of Chinese students in Japan and they are completely annoying and out of control.
BRUH... how the hell do you deal with "twitch chat" as a class xD My class was pretty bad, but it wasn't even close to that
Wow, what age are they?
Well I certainly wouldn't want you teaching English based on the grammar of this comment. Very wonky.
@@kiwirooks7299 I never said i was a teacher to begin with. :D
I think education in general will change in the near future, I slept through most of highschool classes, ditched most of my college courses. Not that I don't want to study, but pretty much taught myself everything with the internet, it was just more time efficient. Working as a software engineer now, I basically Google crap for a living.
In university for architecture the amount of stuff we just taught ourselves off google and TH-cam was ridiculous. The profs would just expect you to know how to use these programs without an actual course on it, like we jumped from hand drafting to suddenly needing to be proficient in a certain rendering program we were required to use. By the time I was in my Masters and TAing for the undergrads they’d changed it up a bit and I was actually teaching a supplementary course on stuff I’d literally taught myself😅 but I look back and I’m like, wow I gave you 10k a year to teach myself stuff off google, it’s not worth it.
The more of Peter I see, the more I become a fan. i love him, he is great. like that one friend that you are so glad you are in the same group with. Seriously the best.
I've been an ALT for 4 years and maybe I've just been lucky, but I've honestly had a great experience. I've been at the same two schools the entire time, all the staff at the schools have been wonderful to me, the students are great, and the job is really easy. I think a lot of the experience just depends on the company you get with and schools you end up with. It's really been a pretty good job.
When I worked in Eastern China, had an American guy start working with us with only a small bag a set of clothes.... He done a runner from his job and wife in Tokyo (whilst she was in the shower).. He then done a runner on us 4 months later to Taiwan when we done a weekend school trip to Xi'An.. I only know because he left his Gmail signed in
What a interesting story that not one single person gives a f about
@@allip2modsaresimpingdiscor284 you read it pmsl
@@systemchris yea well done smart man, did that mean I cared for it?🤡🤡🤡
@@allip2modsaresimpingdiscor284 the vagina deflector in the flesh 😯
@@BaratAnemica I mean unless you want to start being homophobic which is fine by me lol but I’m not actually interesting in girls mate🤣🤣 projecting??
A friend of mine went to Japan to teach English (through a private program, not JET) and complained a lot about how hard it was to find a place that would rent to a foreigner because of people abandoning their lease (I think the company he applied through assists with housing or something) and then when he actually got to Japan he realized he'd never finalized his work visa and ended up flying back to the States within 48 hours
I will say the way english teachers get moved around within a company does depend on the company. As an example, with our company you can be at the same public school for more than 7 years, if the school asks for you to be. The reasoning is that ALTs aren't legally "teachers" so we don't have to follow the same rules. Basically the ling and short of it is if you can do your job well and make it so the school likes you, maybe even go a bit above and beyond so they request you return, you should be pretty safe in your position and will get the same schools. This is of course assuming that the schools you are teaching at stay in the same grouping when the contracts update, but generally the Board of Education will try and make the schools requests happen with regards to the ALTs placement. On the flipside if you are kind of shit your schools can request a different ALT and then you get tossed to a new location.
@Pud Pete every ALT is a foreigner though, so the racist in question isn't gonna come out against you if you do a good job since if they do you will just be replaced by a worse foreigner. Don't get me wrong they won't like you, but they won't raise an issue to the BoE about you either
Spartans never die, they’re just missing in action.
I've only ever taught in America at a collage level, but even then I only did it for 2-3 years before just retiring and doing only lab work. It's very disheartening spending time and effort only to have a handful of people out of thousands respond with interest and the higher ups don't feel like changing any part of a system as long as it is perceived to work to those who "matter".
ghosting is becoming even more common in the workplace here in the US. i don't typically ghost my job in the very beginning but eventually i will just straight up walk out and get a job somewhere else.
As someone on the JET program currently, in Ehime, it was a little unsettling when they said that as an example haha
Teaching in japan is wild, it doesn’t seem like language teaching is understood by anyone, not the regular teachers and not the ALTs.
bro im a college senior in my last semester, i just wanna drop everything and leave already. college is fucking tiring and stressful as fuck
I feel ya too
relatable as fuck, except on in my 2nd semester of my junior year, so still over a year to go for me. You're so close man, just push through and make it to the end. You worked so hard to get this far, the finish line is right in front of you. In just a few months it'll all be over. You got this!!
And if you ever feel ready to quit...just watch this: th-cam.com/video/KxGRhd_iWuE/w-d-xo.html
I was the same way in my last two years of college. But man the real world sucks.
@@Play-On7 shit so working isn’t gonna be better than college? Only gets worse?
@@Kiwi-ku1ui The problem is that in order to get any good paying job you need to either have connections at a workplace or have prior experience. I have applied to dozens of places and have just been ghosted.
Then once you do get a job you have to deal with people that for whatever reason go out of their way to be difficult. Leading to unnecssary bullshit. You can have the easiest job in the world, but all it takes is one person to make life hell.
Then if you live in the U.S you have to deal with the bullshit that is health insurance. Fuck that shit.
Really college was a vacation compared to the real world. If only I knew how good I had it back then.
10:12 Wait. What’s the word that Joey used here?
よにえ？ようにへ？
What’s the romanji for the “escaping/suddenly disappearing” that Joey said here?
Asking for research purposes 👀
Yonige, the kanji reading is 夜逃げ also
@@WolfinsinWow, I definitely did not hear the “ge” of 逃げ AT ALL.😅
My listening skills suck.
Thanks for your reply!
@@lialiakicks to be honest, I only caught it because I already knew the word haha, I can understand how you would miss it
The American military is also gachafied lol… you just get assigned a location and live there for years until they move you again
This tenure concept is used in a few jobs. In Australia Police have tenure at every station. Generally it's 2-4 years and then you have to move. It even covers specialised fields within Police like forensics, family violence unit ect. The primary reasoning was that it was supposed to help prevent corruption. Really all it achieves is uprooting families and creating a divide between people because they know their position is impermanent.
we have a similar shuffle at the post office in canada, every 5 years they restructure the routes and they all go up for bid so if you don't have a lot of seniority and you have a desirable route you can get bumped to different route
It annoys me that I can listen to Pete talk all day. He knows how to tell a story and keep you engaged. This was a great episode.
May I ask why that annoys you?
Sounds like the qualities of a good teacher
pete is just the best. i am so glad he is doing this full-time now and hope to see him again.
I always loved questions like "oppai suki desu ka" because the foreign English teacher was always written off as a bit of a clown. Just respond in English and it's OK. "Yeah! They're great!" The kid's gotten some attention and you can move on. Once a girl asked who of the male teachers had the biggest (ahem), since she knew we went to the onsen the night before... Unfortunately that one I had to waffle.
Just lioe Spartans, they don't die they just go MIA
Wow this was a huge eye opener.
The title lmao
Emphasis on "dissappear" lol
I’m a teacher in America and wonder if I’d enjoy teaching in Japan for maybe a year or two. Primarily would be to broaden my horizons. I already live in a rural area so I wouldn’t mind that too much. Though being away from my family for an extended period of time would be difficult.
Pete sounds like a real class act. I'd love to see him on stream more!
*_TLDR:- The topic starts at _**_6:20_**_._*
6:12 - "I never got an S by the way, I got a lot of Ls."
What a quote to put on a T-shirt, Peter. LOL
6:34 - "I had a friend who taught in the middle of mountains in Mie."
Joey, is that Gaijin Goombah? I remember him talking about his teaching experience in one of Joey's videos.
10:40 - Guys, remember when the boys complained about how strict renting an apartment was? Haha.
I work in the USA as a software developer and our industry basically treats foreigners the same way. All the "Americans" (or people who sound American, so Canadians or whatever) are treated like they are "on the team" while all the foreigners are treated like they are little more than tools. If there's some sort of team event like a pot luck, they're just left out. They are usually excluded from big decisions about team processes. What's funny, is that it doesn't seem to be the developers that do this. It's usually management. They seem to consider the Americans their 'real' team while the foreigners are just 'filler' it's super weird and honestly causes a lot of problems. In the few instances where I've been able to take on any sort of technical lead type of role on a project, the very first thing I do is bring EVERYONE into the decisionmaking and make sure they all know they are a part of the team. It makes a huge difference almost immediately.
Even if you get sent to a rural or semi-rural area in Japan, it's almost always fine. The public transportation is the best in the world and you'll have at least a decent-sized town nearby. Also, the festivals are by far the most interesting in the small towns, and festivals are one of the absolute coolest parts of Japan. Maybe I'm a bit biased, though, because the Banshu area has some of the best... Himeji reprazent!
They, just - "disappear".
Those delinquent students sounded like 6 year old normal kids for me
the type that just learned elementary school biology XD
I personally wouldnt mind being in a remote place in Japan. I really love the countryside where I from but I'm also not from a mountainous area, so I can't be sure
i kinda respect just leaving like that in a wird way, just waking up and thinking to oursel that you are not about that. :,D
Sometimes, it's either that or death.
This is so true. Currently an ALT in Japan and yes every year there is a chance that the teachers move school. For ES schools it’s usually 6 years and maybe JHS 3 years and least in my location. Obviously this can change but the Board of Education of the prefecture or city the teacher is in. Lol praying now that I can say one more year at my JHS to see my last group of kids graduate.
My buddy got into JET last year and his first assignment was Akita. He loves it though!
Japan gatchafying life.
This guy is great, get more stories from him.
10:11 - Can anyone transcribe this one Japanese word for me? I want to look it up, but I can't figure out exactly how it's spelled.
yonie, younie, yoni ei, yoniee, ionie, ioniye, oniye, ounie, ouniyei, etc, etc.
It's 夜逃げ - yonige, 夜(yoru) meaning "night" 逃げ(nige) meaning "running away"
@@Wee-Ah-Boo Thank you!
So what was he alluding to with the Prince Andrew stuff?
pretty sure the Epstein island controversy, since P Andrew was directly involved in that, but not sure how he would've been tho lol...
I believe at one of his schools he was able to get a position mid-year because the previous teacher had an inappropriate relationship with one of the kids and was fired, I remember the story from when he was on Abroad in Japan so I'm guessing it was that.
*when he said delinquent school I immediately thought of the high & low movie series that's based on the crows mangas lmao*
Damn, Kamiooka. I worked there 12 years ago. It was wild
Wait I taught in the mountains of Mie... am I Joey's friend?
I don't know if it's being in America but the more I hear about working in Japan the more I feel bad I mean I know my country's all mess a messy mess but as bad as my work life in the states gets I've never thought of just going nope I'm out and disappearing completely.😢
the whole just leaving thing is sort of similar in China, especially when covid happened. but due to the way the visa works you can't just leave and get another job in China.
10:11 what’s the word he used? Younie?
0:34 ... C-Cromartie High?
Pete is just so freakin likeable! But what is this Prince Andrew stuff?
Teachers In Japan never die, they just go Missing In Action
What is the statue of the brown hair one in the lavender bunny suit from? Also the brown haired one in the chair behind the teacher guy
2-3 years for teachers is the standard rotation period in my area.
There is no sense of teamwork, teachers spend half their first year getting caught up on what their students are capable of and learning how to team teach with people who might be ready to rotate next year anyway.
It is the single worst idea in education I've ever seen and the students suffer massively from it.
This guy's a whole comedian
Pete is like Great teacher Onizuka if onizuka was well behaved and from america
I dont know who any of you are but thanks for letting me as an outsider listen in on this topic. Was quite interesting, I like the idea of one not sitting on their laurels.
Some people just built to just bail whenever.
Also, funny the Texan left because of Corona when he... Probably got hit by the cold snap in Texas. Unless power outages were happening in Japan to. Wouldn't be surprised.
I love having pete on here! I hope to see him more on this or anywhere really :)
I've never heard of yonige it sounds wild but I can remember when I was younger and just had a suit case, if I had the mind set I do now how easy it would have been to just bail out. Theres yonige-ya that help facilitate people to move. Wild.
That explains why it was such a pain in the ass to rent a apartment out there
not surprising to find out but it is surprising that it isn't talked about as much
As an Osaka JET the JETs here are wild I have to say
so high schools like the one in gto and beelzebub are not that far from the truth. he called them "delinquent level"
This guy is really interesting and funny.
"The Soul society does not recognise a desire to withdraw from duty. The official term for retirement is that one takes an extended leave of absence."
What's the character name of the tall bunny figure on the right hand shelf on top level?
Just be professional and say "okay, say it in english". If you can't stop it, then teach them something they want to know
What’s the word called in Japanese? That Joey said?
got a timestamp for when joey says the word?
edit: assuming you're asking about 10:10, which i think he's saying "yonige" as "yonigeya" is a person who "helps others flee" "a fly by night arranger"
edit2: 夜逃げ "night flight", so yeah thats what he was saying.
Yea I think Joey said yonige.
But I think another term that's more accurate at describing the situation is "蒸発" (Jouhatsu) which means evaporate. It describes the act of disappearing from their established lives without a trace.
夜逃げ(yonige) - running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act
Honestly if I was doing Jet, I would absolutely want a rural place in Japan. Japanese city life seems like hell lol.
At least his students will always pay in full tho
The start of this story with annoying kids is literally any school
Dude who went back to Texas slipped out of the country like the Yakuza put a price on his head.
If it were me in this situation, I’d be hoping for a rural setting… inject that shit into my veins lol
IDK, sounds like a lot of my students.
So they get taken out?
6 years only? Such a weird rule
Hey! Mie's nice. don't be hatin'.
Pete was at a private school. Public school students don't act the best, not good per say.
No but the picture joke with the tighty whiteys is hilarious.
This is insane teaching needs changing
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*giggles in Japanese*
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Honestly, from a pedagogical perspective it is not a terrible idea to have teachers move schools. It makes sure that teachers are still passionate and challenged in their working environment.
It also prevents entrenched rich school districts from hoarding all the capable teachers, at least in the US.
It also treats them like they're not allowed to take root anywhere. Their futures are essentially forever insecure because who can start a family or have deep social bonds when you're forced to move every so many years? Incredibly dehumanizing.
This incredibly depends on country, if you are lacking teachers or do not have a mass abundance of them, this is a horrible idea, because it makes the job soo much more unattractive, which will largely decrease the supply of teachers.
You could compensate with higher wages etc. though
No, from a pedagogical perspective building a relationship with students is so much more important and relevant to their learning and wellbeing, as well as the INCREDIBLE amount of work that goes to getting to know which student needs what to thrive and how to adapt your class to help them achieve that and build a good enough raport with them to help them.
@@sagephilwhere I teach that’s not really an issue. There are so many schools within an hour’s drive, you could rotate every 3-5 years and never have to move house. The public transport is great too.