Japanese black company bullshit. Removing WFH after telling me it was fine, I can move away, etc. Revoking my side job permission (I sell extra veg that I grow on my small farm). I keep applying to jobs in the EEA and even remote US and Canada jobs. Nothing is biting. No one wants Japanese timezone or dealing with cross-border stuff. Japanese remote jobs are going away more generally, especially for someone like me who’s a non-Java (recently, at least) backend-only engineer. There are no local jobs either that are enough to support us. If I did take anything, I wouldn’t have any time to look for anything better and have a miserable commute. Due to back and leg issues, there’s only so much resembling manual labor I can do.
My previous company did it as well. It’s all great in the beginning then management or something changes and they decide to treat employees like shit. Many rely on having a job to keep their visas so they are too scared to try to fight back. I planned to retire here, and maybe it will be better years later, but I desperately want to get to Norway for work. Instantly better working conditions and rights, ability to get PR in 3 years and vote, ability to get citizenship without giving up my existing a few years after that. I don’t even want some big relocation package. Just support the visa, get us there with a couple suitcases each, and help us get started (I heard it can take a while for the tax authority and everything to straighten out leading to slow/reduced paychecks at first).
This is the very TL;DR version. There’s a lot more shit.
Japanese black company bullshit. Removing WFH after telling me it was fine, I can move away, etc. Revoking my side job permission (I sell extra veg that I grow on my small farm). I keep applying to jobs in the EEA and even remote US and Canada jobs. Nothing is biting. No one wants Japanese timezone or dealing with cross-border stuff. Japanese remote jobs are going away more generally, especially for someone like me who’s a non-Java (recently, at least) backend-only engineer. There are no local jobs either that are enough to support us. If I did take anything, I wouldn’t have any time to look for anything better and have a miserable commute. Due to back and leg issues, there’s only so much resembling manual labor I can do.
My previous company did it as well. It’s all great in the beginning then management or something changes and they decide to treat employees like shit. Many rely on having a job to keep their visas so they are too scared to try to fight back. I planned to retire here, and maybe it will be better years later, but I desperately want to get to Norway for work. Instantly better working conditions and rights, ability to get PR in 3 years and vote, ability to get citizenship without giving up my existing a few years after that. I don’t even want some big relocation package. Just support the visa, get us there with a couple suitcases each, and help us get started (I heard it can take a while for the tax authority and everything to straighten out leading to slow/reduced paychecks at first).
This is the very TL;DR version. There’s a lot more shit.