Sahashi Admits to Delaying Salaries

Ok, will everyone please stop recylcing the same joke over and over in various forms. We all get the fact that this news is no news. It is far too late (and inaccurate) to be considered responsible journalism or even standad journalism but at least it promotes our cause even if only by a little.

Nothing we have heard lately is news. There probably won't be any NEWs in the near future. I'm sorry but I don't have anything new for you either except a couple of questions:

1. Is that 80% of what we get paid a month including all our allowances (regularity etc) or is that 80% of our base salary?

2. For those of us that have resigned, how long do we have to wait before we can claim our unpaid wages?

If that comment was posted as a response to my post I would like to point out that the article states we haven't been paid for October. As we all know it was September we weren't paid for and October that we won't be paid for. There is a big diffrence between not being paid for October and not being paid for September, namely one extra month of trying to survive with no money.

I have ploughed the internet looking for news of Saruhashi being in police custody and can only assume it is an outright lie or some poor fool has misinterpereted the fact that he was questioned. The questioning took place in person at the Labor Standards Office not in a police station and as far as I can tell he was free to go afterwards. If this is not the case please post a source link. It's hypocritical to bitch about the poor journalism when we start reporting BS to each other too.

Any takers on the 80% question or does smeone want to post a real topic or opinion? Jokes are only cool if they are funny and not repeated in various forms. We got it the first time and it wasn't that funny then!

I hope all those waiting for Nova's answers know that you are not going to be paid for this period while the schools are closed. Also, I wold like to point out that if a sponsor is found it is likely that you will all be dismissed and will have to reapply for your jobs. This comes straight from the trustees:

*please note the student who is waiting to return if Nova reopens. He basically implies that the reason Nova is suffering is because of the bad teachers... although there are some reasonable ones. I don't disagree about teacher quality, but come on man, the company owns a good 90% of the blame, maybe teachers own 5%, and i'll allocate 5% to those corrupt people in power who turned a blind eye right until the last minute. Despite what people say, Nova deserved the sanctions for REPEATEDLY violating the law. It was the poor business model and greed of the president as well as the board of directors that caused this fiasco! Lundquist included!

At the aforementioned interview they also stated that we might not get paid our unpaid wages by the new sponsor (if one is found). This contradicts a post that I read earlier where an individual stated that the Trustees will not consider any sponsors who will not pay back wages. But the Trustees must apply something called the public benefit test when making their decisions and finding a sponsor who can bail most of the company (excluding unpaid salaries and maybe even refunds) may be held to be in the public's interest. The trustees may be found to be negligent if they turn away such a sponsor.

Either way, we should see some money, even if it is from the government. The only question I have is how much longer will it be before we see some money? Even those of us who have saved and/or found new jobs might not be able to wait this out!

Just in response to 3kun's pathetic little xenophobic post. The poor little Japanese man who doesn't do anything wrong is the real victim here! Saruhashi is no more than the modern day equivalent of those poor innocent Japanese soldiers accused of the Rape of Nanking (Otherwise known around the world as the 'Nanking Massacre' or widely denied within Japan as merely the 'Nanking Incident')!

I immediately saw my brother Saruhashi er I mean kunt's point! Leave the poor man alone AND leave Japan now! There were no war atrocities and Nova failed because of its foreign teachers and them only!!!

At ths point I could insert a quote about Chinese girls being taken from a language school (note the irony or the similarity of the evil use of language schools in the foreign barbarian's lies) and raped by Japanese soldiers. Oh, what the hell:

"Thirty girls were taken from the language school last night, and today I have heard scores of heartbreaking stories of girls who were taken from their homes last night—one of the girls was but 12 years old....Tonight a truck passed in which there were eight or ten girls, and as it passed they called out "Jiu ming! Jiu ming!"—save our lives." (Minnie Vautrin's diary, 16 December 1937)

I don't quote this page to invoke hatred or racism as none of us have clean hands
and I love this country, but instead to point out how pathetic 3kunt's little denial was and how Japanese victimology and dislike for foreigners is sometimes misguided and ironic. Thank God (this time a real foreign lie) that this country is filled not with kunts but decent Japanese people.

Cut and pasted from the Japan Times Online this morning:

Nova rehab quest finds 12 sponsors
OSAKA (Kyodo) Twelve companies have applied to sponsor the rehabilitation of Nova Corp., the failed foreign-language school's court-appointed administrators said Saturday.

Some of the companies made specific proposals for turning around Osaka-based Nova, they said. Nova was granted protection from creditors Oct. 26 under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law.

The administrators said they plan to choose a sponsor at "an early stage next week." But they haven't finished assessing the value of Nova's assets yet, making it uncertain whether Nova's rehabilitation will proceed smoothly.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20071104a2.html

Just in case anybody thought that Nova will be ok. Even with sponsorship, we will see a very sick and crippled Nova that might survive a little longer but a company with debt in excess of 100 billion yen and no assets other than books (not a single one made Oprah's list) and such a bad reputation is quite simply doomed!

But what do I care?

Show me the (read: my) money!!!

Saruhashi entered into misleading/illegal transactions with a failed bank it has been revealed through another investigation:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071103TDY02307.htm

Please note the bank failed after it was allowed to trade under corporate rehabilitation laws. It can and will happen with Nova too.

Saruhashi is the devil!