Korean Job Discussion Forums

[KWellsDear]

Yesterday at work I got a "verbal warning" from my boss for teaching the wrong book (Not true). This "verbal warning" consisted of my boss screaming at me in the teachers lounge and then in front of a whole class of children and then in the hallway in front of teachers, students, and parents. The head teacher took him aside and explained that even if I was wrong the way he behaved was inappropriate and that, in fact, I did NOT do anything wrong. I proceeded to show him my meticulously kept teachers log for every single class to prove it to him. Not only has he not apologized but I still have a "verbal warning" in my file. This is bull.

My first instinct was to pack my things and quit but I've decided I'll think about it for a bit. It turns out he's done this to several other teachers as well.

[Tokki1]

/shrug

I suggest getting to Kyobo ASAP and buying 'Hagwon Management For Incompetent Ajoshis'. Teach that to your class.

[ttompatz]

[TheBrain]

If you really have some guts, type up a letter of release and hand it to him the next time he's going off on you. Tell him that if you're such a bad teacher then sign, date, and stamp it right now.

[alabamaman]

They have wonderful ways to motivate foreigners.

[alabamaman]

[OiGirl]

"I'm sorry, I cna't accept your verbal warning. I'll need that in writing." Unless, of course, verbal warnings and their consequences are spelled out in your contract...

[captain kirk]

Haha, I miss the poster Austin. He was a real beep but a classic troll. For example, he'd write something like this in response to the suffering OP;

'It is the foreigner's responsibility to be sensitive to the culture of Korea and how the culture applies in the workplace. Have you perhaps offended your boss in some way? Due to the low calibre of the foreign teachers I have encountered, and their inappropriate, insenstitive statements and behaviours I've been uncomfortable enough to have heard and seen, I suspect you have simply not seen, and therefore subtly but fatally violated, the otherwise generous code of conduct that has allowed a foreigner access to this emloyment position in the first place. It may not be too late for you to make amends with your boss, after soul-searching (though I perceive the quality of self-examination, honest reflection to be nearly absent in most FTs, at least those I've had the misfortune to smell)
to realize your mistake. Perhaps a small gift is in order, some peeled fruit and an apology. Good luck'.

Hahaha, he was classic. Re; the OP's post, what Tom said. I'd pack one of those microcassette recorders. REALLY! The guys down at immigration are not entirely sold on shady hagwon masters and if you run over what you've recorded, the outbursts, (with a Korean speaker) and make a 'greatest hits' of Herr Crapants going off the immigration guys will love it.

[KWellsDear]

[Tokki1]

[ChuckECheese]

I can't imagine my boss ever yelling at me or giving me verbal warning at my hagwon even if I did something really grossly stupid and ignorant.

She would probably beg me not to do it again.

[spliff]

Give notice and make like a library...

[Bingo]

Often eonder what happened to that Austin character. Man he was a scumbag. Hopefully he got fired. Pure dirt he was, taking exagerated pleasure in other human being's misfortune.

[Scotticus]

[Mosley]

Austin was banned 3 yrs. ago. He re-emerged as "Bukowski", made another fine name for himself and hasn't been heard from for awhile....