Unorganized and lack of communication from management. - Teacher Freecom Employee Review

This review is quite clearly written by someone with an axe to grind and an ulterior motive other than giving a genuine review of a position and is completely at odds with the other reviews on this page. First of all, yes there is some travel involved as is the case with most growing companies in several locations but the facts have been grossly distorted here. The travel time to Fukushima city from Koriyama is under one hour and anyone who wants to check can do so easily by looking up any train schedule. Secondly, the once a month Tokyo journey is 4 hours by bus and the return leg is about an hour as we use Shinkansen (another fact omitted from this review). All of which is paid for by the company along with hotel which was also not mentioned. The first leg of the journey is made by bus as the teacher has all day free to travel and only teaches in the evening so there is no great need to get there in a rush. Again this is all paid for and during scheduled working hours and upon arrival the teacher has a free afternoon in Tokyo (not a bad deal IMO). The same teacher then has the entire next day to explore this great city. As far as pay is concerned we use a tiered pay system. Teachers with zero experience start at entry level salary and salary increases every six months as the teacher becomes better at the position and a more valuable asset to the company. I don't know of any other company that has raises so frequently. Should a staff member with no experience earn the same as someone with 5 or 10 years experience? There are events though never three times a month and we always encourage the staff to take part as they are fun, but not mandatory by any means. I'm not sure about the relevance of the social media comment? Most companies use social media to communicate. Should we make that information public? The groups are only 'secret' in the sense that only employees can read them. Is that wrong? In terms of notice, 3 months is required because of the nature of the position. Employing people from overseas takes time and we are usually thorough with our recruitment (although occasionally a bad one sneaks by). We have never fired anyone during their notice period. This is just a lie plain and simple. It's an interesting statement to make that we are unorganised as we're growing rapidly and moving into one of the biggest markets in the world. There aren't too many unorganised companies who manage such a feat. It also seems strange to complain about people being childish and petty in one breath and to personally insult people in the very next. Doesn't that constitute petty? So far the mass exodus predicted in this review is yet to happen. In fact since this was written we have added several members to our team and everyone seems to be getting on very well. The title of the review talks about lack of communication but the comments below do not shed any light on this accusation. Rather they highlight a person who is unwilling to work hard as part of a team and would much rather play the part of the victim blaming everyone else around them because it is easier than doing any self evaluation or reflection which may mean actually admitting that he or she does not know it all.