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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: School running out of basic supplies ... like paper |
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I'm so lucky that I work at a combined middle / high school and have access to the facilities of both.
Where I sit in the HS staff room my desk is right across from the photocopier. For the past few weeks I've been watching the supply of paper dwindle. Then today I see we've run out. I've watched teacher after teacher bring something to photocopy, then go to the supply room to find there's no paper there, either, and then scrounge around for some A4 to use. Didn't it occur to anyone to order some more before we ran out completely?
The same thing has recently happened with chalk. We run out of paper at least three times a term, and despite the pile of boxes of A4 dwindling down it seems to occur to no one to place an order in advance.
While I've been writing this yet another teacher has stopped by the photocopier to find out there's no paper. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Geez, you are sure lucky. And that's too bad. |
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kingtout
Joined: 03 May 2007
Location: ROK...again...
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: School running out of basic supplies ... like paper |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
I'm so lucky that I work at a combined middle / high school and have access to the facilities of both.
Where I sit in the HS staff room my desk is right across from the photocopier. For the past few weeks I've been watching the supply of paper dwindle. Then today I see we've run out. I've watched teacher after teacher bring something to photocopy, then go to the supply room to find there's no paper there, either, and then scrounge around for some A4 to use. Didn't it occur to anyone to order some more before we ran out completely?
The same thing has recently happened with chalk. We run out of paper at least three times a term, and despite the pile of boxes of A4 dwindling down it seems to occur to no one to place an order in advance.
While I've been writing this yet another teacher has stopped by the photocopier to find out there's no paper. |
It's not the running out that bothered me at Pubic School so much, it's the not re-ordering of supplies that drove me nuts. Exactly as you mentioned, teacher after teacher trying to make copies, giving up, and failing to say/do anything about it. Maybe they lose face being the last to use up the copy paper.
Kinda like taking the last slice of pizza for us or something. |
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willneverteachagain
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| why dont u tell someone there's no paper |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Better yet...why don't you order some more? |
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willneverteachagain
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| what's he gonna do order it in english? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| willneverteachagain wrote: |
| what's he gonna do order it in english? |
I just imagine it. The local supplier getting a call:
"Anyeonghasaeyo! ________ yeo-ja gyo-ding hak-yo imnida! A-pour jong-ee jusayo!"
In the worst pronounced Korean he's ever heard. |
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willneverteachagain
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| yup and then they hang up on u |
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willneverteachagain
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| i tried to get someone who spoke english on the phone from the gas company and got hung up on 5 times as soon as they heard english |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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The same thing happens at my public school and they have yet to pay me. So, I resigned and am taking them to the labour office and going to the press a.s.a.p.
The local area has more than a few psycho racists and restaurants and bars that refuse to do business with foreigners, too. I was sipping a beer in front of the L-Mart in Gumcheon-dong on Saturday morning at eleven. All of a sudden, two cops stopped their car and gave me a hard stare for about four minutes. So, I asked them what their problem was. They drove off but returned a few minutes later and demanded to know my address and school name. I took out my handphone and told them that I was calling American Citizen Services at the U.S. Embassy. Officer Shin got out of the car and apologised. He said to me that the other guy, Officer Jeong, wanted my info. I told him to tell his partner that a human rights complaint would soon follow the phone call.
Stay away from Cheongju City's Gumcheon-dong area! |
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seoulman1
Joined: 02 Feb 2007
Location: Jamsil
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| willneverteachagain wrote: |
| i tried to get someone who spoke english on the phone from the gas company and got hung up on 5 times as soon as they heard english |
what are they meant to do miraculously learn the English language in 30 seconds? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Roch wrote: |
The same thing happens at my public school and they have yet to pay me. So, I resigned and am taking them to the labour office and going to the press a.s.a.p.
The local area has more than a few psycho racists and restaurants and bars that refuse to do business with foreigners, too. I was sipping a beer in front of the L-Mart in Gumcheon-dong on Saturday morning at eleven. All of a sudden, two cops stopped their car and gave me a hard stare for about four minutes. So, I asked them what their problem was. They drove off but returned a few minutes later and demanded to know my address and school name. I took out my handphone and told them that I was calling American Citizen Services at the U.S. Embassy. Officer Shin got out of the car and apologised. He said to me that the other guy, Officer Jeong, wanted my info. I told him to tell his partner that a human rights complaint would soon follow the phone call.
Stay away from Cheongju City's Gumcheon-dong area! |
Well that makes our paper shortage seem rather trivial, doesn't it? |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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Whenever there is a problem with the teachers copier I use the one
in the administrative office. It always has toner and paper.
The first time it ran out they said they would order 5 toner cartridges
so it we would have some. The next time it ran out they said they had
none which means they never ordered any. |
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ucfvgirl
Joined: 28 Sep 2005
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: Happens all the time at my school |
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| This paper thing happens at my school all the time. And what's up with only putting half a ream of paper in the photocopier? Wouldn't logic tell you to fill the damn thing up? Oh yeah, I forgot. I am in Korea where logic or common sense doesn't exist. "why should I fill it up? I only need 20 copies". Can we say COMMON COURTESY? Sheeesshhhh |
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nancy123
Joined: 23 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: never any paper |
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The same thing happens at my school .....sometimes 2 days without paper.
Now when the new supply eventually comes in... I stash a pack away on the top shelf.....  |
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