Korean Job Discussion Forums

[plokiju]

I find Koreans pretty obvious when they are being petty. I've had a few times when they've just done pretty deliberate things to show me who was in control.

After I quit my first job, they announced that the staff meeting (which I was still required to attend even though I wasn't wouldn't be there the next month) would be held on Thursday that month. I worked until the end of the day every single day except Thursday. It was my one day to leave work early and therefore the only day I would've not wanted it to be on. Felt like it had to a deliberate choice.

A worse time though was when after my class at my most recent job, I see a note on my desk from the vice-director wanting to see me after class. She was talking to these assistant teachers in Korean about stuff for a really long time. I was really upset working there at the time so I waited 20 minutes just sitting at my desk watching her, feeling frustrated, angry, tired, upset, etc. and then decided that was enough time to give her and went to leave. She stops me and tells me to continue waiting. I tell her that I wasn't not going to wait forever and she says she absolutely must talk to me and not to leave. The assistant teachers keep looking at me and mouthing "I'm sorry. So sorry." (They confirmed to me that she kept repeating herself again and again something about photocopying). I decide to give her 5 minutes tops and then no matter what she says I was going to leave. This was at 1030 by the way so I really just want to get home. Finally after nearly 30 minutes of her berating 2 Korean employees with the same words again and again she finally decides she is ready to talk to me. She brings me into the private area of the teacher's room, pushes an envelope across the table, smiles a smug little smile and tells me "There are no words" and leaves. That's how I received the notice that I'd been fired.

Any other useless shows of power out there?

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[ChuckECheese]

The OP certainly has lots of patience...

If I were you......@#$%@#$^#&*%^^&^#$%

[ron_j]

I would've just whipped out my ipod and start watching south park episodes. After all you didn't need to hear anything of importance during the meeting.

[captain kirk]

It's the short, ambitious, homely ones that are the shin biters. Since she was so ugly and unhappily married she got her orgasmic shivers from complete subjugation of subordinates. Her back would arch, her chin tilt up as a wave of 'I so powerful' jollies would tickle the length of her spine. And it would be over petty things, but they were HER petty things. I really think some people need to be set on a nice island somewhere to catch up with 'self-help' issues instead of rollicking headling into metaphorical whips and chains at the workplace. It's so obvious, their lust for power, they look like mighty large fruitcakes, especially in a children's school. Don't they have handguns, doberman pinchers, and thumbscrews at home?

[Travelous Maximus]

One time, me and my boss had a swordfight.

[Scotticus]

[Junior]

I'm tired of working under bosses. Sick to death of it.

I want to become "independently wealthy". I have a plan, but it will be several years to go yet.

[babtangee]

My boss likes to pay his Korean teachers 50,000 or so short, so they have to ask him for such a petty sum. With me, it's usually around 200,000, which is enough to justify my getting pissed and publicly criticising him. Still, he does it semi-regular. I guess he figures it still demonstrates his authority. If he ever stiffs me less than 100k I think I'll burn it in front of him.

[kat2]

At my first hogwan, we got the Korea Tiems everyday. It was always delivered to hte maanger's office. When I started there, it was always just out on his desk, and we could go in and grab it to read between classes. As time went on, he began hiding it around his office, so we would have to ask him to give it to us. In a filing cabinet here, under a pile of books there. It was completely ridiculous.

[koon_taung_daeng]

yea i cant put up with the bosses here, i just yell at mine in front of everybody and swear as well, then he know not to fukc around anymore. but i only do this cause he cant fire me because i work at an afterschool program and the shady way he is getting paid gives me acsess to 5 grand of his every month which i can legally take and quit

[jackson7]

At my current job, there was no shortage of impolite 'I'm the boss' behavior towards the foreign staff. As head ass-wipe, it was my job to intervene. This will sound like a pat on the back for myself, and it is, but after an hour of heated "debate" with our manager about what western people expect and require from co-workers and managers alike, life has since become peachy.

She has gone out of her way everyday to use western niceties to the extreme, adding 'please' and 'thank you' to the most mundane of requests. I and the other teachers have responded in turn by working harder, enjoying the atmosphere more, and acknowledging her efforts. Weird when things work out over here...sometimes people are really just, well, people

[dogbert]

[Hater Depot]

My ex-manager would come into meetings, sit down, and silently shuffle papers while we waited for her. Other times we would wait for her to finish lunch, which you'd think she could do by 2 pm. Once she and the boss had lunch in the meeting room for 30 minutes past the scheduled start.

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