I’m thinking about going with a private company, thoughts?
Some private companies are on the up-and-up, a lot of them are not. The ones that are not definitely take advantage of young people who just really want to come to Japan. They do a lot of questionable things to save money, like keep people on 6 month contracts (to avoid having to enroll them in the National Health Care) or reduce ALT pay in August and sometimes December or March (even though the school is probably paying the company the same amount) or deduct a whole day from an ALT’s salary if that ALT left an hour early due to illness.
