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Mithrae
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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Another thing about Gepik. They keep your original reference letters, and won't give them back even after you quit Gepik. Of course your next job will also want to see your original reference letters, but Gepik has them. You put this to Gepik and what do they say? "You have to get new reference letters from your old employers." What, employers from five years ago that that a) no longer exist or b) exist, but can no longer remember who you are.
Thanks Gepik. You've just made our job search that much harder. One more frustrating hoop to jump through.  |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| Mithrae wrote: |
| Thanks Gepik. You've just made our job search that much harder. One more frustrating hoop to jump through. |
Simply don't give them originals. SHOW them the originals (during interviews or whatever), but you only allow them to KEEP copies. You keep the originals. |
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Alaskaman
Joined: 22 Sep 2009
Location: Bundang-Gu, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| bump-I have had a great time! My school is cool. But I know that all are different. Just give what you can give and that is all. Put in what they put into the over all effort nothing more and nothing less. At the end of the day things will work out. I hope!!! But just cover your back!! |
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romano812
Joined: 09 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:45 am Post subject: GEPIK sick days |
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GEPIK never paid me for any of the sick days I took. The contract stated something like 15 sick days, and no more than 7 in a row without a doctor's note. I used a few of my sick days and was never paid. Just one of the many things GEPIK screwed me on over the year.
Just sharing my experience. |
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teachergirltoo
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: Re: GEPIK sick days |
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GEPIK never paid me for any of the sick days I took. The contract stated something like 15 sick days, and no more than 7 in a row without a doctor's note. I used a few of my sick days and was never paid. Just one of the many things GEPIK screwed me on over the year.
Just sharing my experience. |
Can you please explain what reason they gave for not paying. I don't understand how this could happen. |
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Blaise38
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| In my Gepik contract it says I'm 'entitled' to fifteen sick days per contract. But if you dare take one, regardless of how sick you are, it's considered a capital offence. |
It's the same at my SMOE school. Come to think of it, it was the same at the high school at which I taught in my own country!
Maybe it's time a NET spread rabies, the plague, or bird flu through his or her school... just to make a point...
Any volunteers?  |
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yeremy
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: Anywhere's there's a good bookstore.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:38 am Post subject: Re: I will never work for GEPIK again. |
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| Neither will I. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Apart from a psycho co-worker / handler who came duirng my last 4 months - I had a fab time working for GEPIK.
Like all English Teaching jobs in Korea, it's sadly just a pure lottery on whether you end up at a school that has non psycho co-teacher sand that actually follow the contract and treat you well.
My GEPIK school (apart from 4 months with a psycho handler, but the VP loved me so backed me against her every step of the way - a very unusual thing...) was great and they never ever got mad at me for taking sick days.
It's a lottery folks... |
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Mithrae
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, Gepik is really getting a bad name these days. Well deserved in my opinion. Korea can do all the sparkly adverts it wants to attract tourists, but word of mouth after bad treatment spreads much faster. For every Westerner that sees a Korea Sparkling! advert, thousands read websites like this and hear first-hand accounts of people who have actually been screwed over in Korea. Which impression will have the bigger impact on Korea's global image?
If Koreans can't figure it out. |
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daddy daycare
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
Location: In my house
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:26 am Post subject: gepik |
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My ligaments got torn two months ago in my ankle. I now have an inflamed heel and achiles tendon.
I took one day sick, which I asked and never got a reply. My day was spent at hospital (MRI, tests etc), and not at home.
Now my school says I need to say in advance when I am going to take a sick day.... No one can say in advance when they are going to be sick, but my stupid boss wants that. So I told her I will lie, and make up a story to get sick leave. She seemed happy.
Currently I am walking with a leg brace/cast and teaching. " You can sit during your classes, and get the students to write everything". My lot cant even make sentences yet.....
my 5 won worth
Can never please the K people... |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Teaching history in Burma
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, Gepik is really getting a bad name these days. Well deserved in my opinion. Korea can do all the sparkly adverts it wants to attract tourists, but word of mouth after bad treatment spreads much faster. For every Westerner that sees a Korea Sparkling! advert, thousands read websites like this and hear first-hand accounts of people who have actually been screwed over in Korea. Which impression will have the bigger impact on Korea's global image?
If Koreans can't figure it out. |
I seriously doubt the people who have the most impact on Korea's global image read this site or sites like it or care about some expats getting the shaft. |
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English Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| Mithrae wrote: |
Wow, Gepik is really getting a bad name these days. Well deserved in my opinion. Korea can do all the sparkly adverts it wants to attract tourists, but word of mouth after bad treatment spreads much faster. For every Westerner that sees a Korea Sparkling! advert, thousands read websites like this and hear first-hand accounts of people who have actually been screwed over in Korea. Which impression will have the bigger impact on Korea's global image?
If Koreans can't figure it out. |
I seriously doubt the people who have the most impact on Korea's global image read this site or sites like it or care about some expats getting the shaft. |
No, but people who are thinking about coming to work in Korea do.....not that many westerners come to Korea for tourism, but some of those that might be thinking of doing so may well run into this site or one of the many people, like us, who read this website. I know many of my friends who have told me that they know somebody else who had worked in Korea who told them of the same negative aspects to Korean society that I have (this is in Canada, Ireland and the UK). There is a lot to be said to word of mouth advertising, and I would imagine few people ever see a Korea Sparkling advertisement prior to coming to Korea. |
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Mithrae
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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| Hey guys, hurry up. Gepik is hiring now! Here's your chance to work with a crazy co-teacher every day and have 38 students per class. Fill in that application NOW! |
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hockeyguy109
Joined: 22 Dec 2008
Location: Daegu
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| Is GEPIK (or public schools in general) really that much worse than Hagwon jobs? I've been at my GEPIK school for 8 months, never taught Hagwon. Am I missing out? I like the idea of smaller classes, but GEPIK hasn't been heck on earth. I know many GEPIK schools are terrible, but in general, is working at a hagwon better? |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| Is GEPIK (or public schools in general) really that much worse than Hagwon jobs? I've been at my GEPIK school for 8 months, never taught Hagwon. Am I missing out? I like the idea of smaller classes, but GEPIK hasn't been heck on earth. I know many GEPIK schools are terrible, but in general, is working at a hagwon better? |
As with everything it depends. How will your wonjangnim treat you? Will this downturn mean you dont get paid on time? WHere will you be living? Franchise or mom and pop hagwon. Every job here is a roll of the dice. |
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