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I started work yesterday for G-Nova. To clarify Nova is a school name that is owned by G-Communication and seemingly overseen by G-Education, a subsidiary of G-Communication. To the best of my understanding Nova is not a company owned by G-Communications in so far as we will be receiving our wages directly through G-Communications which owns G-Education, which in turn is running some former Nova schools under the Nova name. Hope that was as clear as mud. Without going into all the dry details, we were given two options - a)immediate employment and a 50,000yen salary advance if so desired / b) a payment (retainer fee) of 150,000yen to start work January 10th. About two-thirds of us took the first option as it was more money overall. One thing that surprised me is that there were only about twenty-five teachers that were in a attendance yesterday. This was the first branch to open in the region and would be the starting point for most teachers left in the area. Twenty five is only about five teachers heavy to run the branch (it used to be fairly big) at full capacity, meaning that there is not as much excess as I had predicted. Unless I am extrapolating too much from one random school, G-Nova doesn't have the teacher numbers to open very many branches. And then there is the one-third that chose the potential 'take the money and run' option b. Will they even bother to come back now that they have airfare home?