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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:27 am Post subject: Asking for an advance from my employer? Yes or no? |
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I'm in my 2nd month here, and getting very low on funds. Do employers here give advances?
Anybody asked for one before?
Thanks for any help. |
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hubba bubba
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| known a few people that have gotten advances. You should be able to swing half your salary if you've been on for two months. You haven't been paid yet? |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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I got paid my first month but paid a tonne of bills back home, and need some money from them, can't wait until payday on the 10th of March.
So 1 million won wouldn't be out of the question to ask for? |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| Ced wrote: |
I got paid my first month but paid a tonne of bills back home, and need some money from them, can't wait until payday on the 10th of March.
So 1 million won wouldn't be out of the question to ask for? |
My employer always grants my request for an advance, but it is usually just two or three hundred thousand. They are now collecting tuition from their students and are scrambling for cash themselves, so in my case , I wouldn't. |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| regicide wrote: |
My employer always grants my request for an advance, but it is usually just two or three hundred thousand. They are now collecting tuition from their students and are scrambling for cash themselves, so in my case , I wouldn't. |
OK, well I'll try for 200,000. That sounds reasonable. No more excusrions to Itaewon with an open wallet. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:00 am Post subject: |
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| Ced wrote: |
I got paid my first month but paid a tonne of bills back home, and need some money from them, can't wait until payday on the 10th of March.
So 1 million won wouldn't be out of the question to ask for? |
1 million for 5 days?  Even 200,000 is . |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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200,000 to buy an xbox.... it's pretty boring in my area. Seems like every 2nd shop is a hairdresser or a fishshop haha.
Going out of mind, I really need to cut back on drinking. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| Ced wrote: |
| 200,000 to buy an xbox.... it's pretty boring in my area. Seems like every 2nd shop is a hairdresser or a fishshop haha. |
You might want to think of something better than that when you ask your boss for an advance. |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
You might want to think of something better than that when you ask your boss for an advance. |
Yeah I think I'll say something about living expenses. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Don't ask for too much. Just kick back. Drinking here is overrated. Spending too much money. Buying everyone drinks. You look back and think, "What did I get out of that?"
If you're going to spend. Buy stuff for your place. Like a new computer. Get a guitar.
I was going to go to Seoul this weekend, but thought, "What for?" Instead, I walked to the supermarket and got some food, stopped into a Korean restaurant, etc. Everyone is "Hello!" and talking to me. Felt good about not spending money and by midnight, was even happier I didn't go.
Watch the money grow. |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
Watch the money grow. |
Cheers for the advice! I did buy new acoustic in Seoul last month, so that's where a bit of money went, well 150,000 won, not too bad a price.
I dont really want a omputer, I'll get stuck at home too much, I like getting out into a smokey PC 방 every now and then.
Yeah buying people drinks is a huge problem for me, I get drunk and jus tseem to think I'm Bill Gates or something. I need the mentality: If people want a drink, they'll buy their own damn drink. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| Ced wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
Watch the money grow. |
Yeah buying people drinks is a huge problem for me, I get drunk and jus tseem to think I'm Bill Gates or something. I need the mentality: If people want a drink, they'll buy their own damn drink. |
That's where the money goes. They suck you in at these bars. "Hey! I only spent 200,000 Won last night! Wow!" Would you spend that back home? I'd get ripped out of my tree and spend 70 bucks back in Canada. I spend way less money when I go out with my Korean friends and don't go off and continue the party when they've had enough to drink and want to go home.
They don't care about you in the bars. Phuck 'em. |
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Ced
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:16 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
That's where the money goes. They suck you in at these bars. "Hey! I only spent 200,000 Won last night! Wow!"
They don't care about you in the bars. Phuck 'em. |
That sounds just like me. $320 nights.... just insane. I'm just going to stick to Soju at the bars from now one, or Hite. I guess I wont become immune from too much haha.
What does it cost for Soju at the bars for a bottle? Can you buy bottles of it at bars? |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Ced wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
That's where the money goes. They suck you in at these bars. "Hey! I only spent 200,000 Won last night! Wow!"
They don't care about you in the bars. Phuck 'em. |
That sounds just like me. $320 nights.... just insane. I'm just going to stick to Soju at the bars from now one, or Hite. I guess I wont become immune from too much haha.
What does it cost for Soju at the bars for a bottle? Can you buy bottles of it at bars? |
3 grand a bottle. some places sell it for less; i've almost never seen it for more. some bars have it; some don't (it depends on what kind of a bar it is - in korean, the places that have it aren't actually called 바) |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Ced wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
That's where the money goes. They suck you in at these bars. "Hey! I only spent 200,000 Won last night! Wow!"
They don't care about you in the bars. Phuck 'em. |
That sounds just like me. $320 nights.... just insane. I'm just going to stick to Soju at the bars from now one, or Hite. I guess I wont become immune from too much haha.
What does it cost for Soju at the bars for a bottle? Can you buy bottles of it at bars? |
Never bought it at the bars. Yuck.
I go out with my friend here in the boonies once a week for samgyeopsal and we have soju. We decided that 3 bottles between us is the limit and maybe a can of beer for the walk home (he lives further up the road). If I drink too much soju, I can't control myself. At times, I have said my goodbyes at around 11, 12 or 1 am, and stupidly decided to take a 20,000 Won taxi into the nearest town to hoot it up even more. Then a 20,000 Won taxi back. Got to the point where he'd say mid-meal, "Don't go to the city tonight". Like he's my mother or something. That would piss me off and I'd go anyway and wake up hungover. Waste of money.
One time, I drank 5 sojus myself. My friend only had like half a bottle. Next time I saw him, "We drank 3 bottles?" Him, "No. Five. You drank most of it. I only had about a half bottle. You kept ordering." Me, "What time did we leave? Midnight?" Him, "No. 2 am. You went to the city. I tried to stop you."
I wouldn't drink soju sitting at a bar, but it depends on each person, I guess.
Hite draft beer is good and cold. |
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