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[mawz]

Alright, flash back to my last week at the end of my first year (in May this month). It is the final Reading lesson for the advanced classes (Bridge Par Birdie for those of you familiar) and there's no stinkin teacher's guiide. I of course find this out like 45 minutes before class, and end up rushing to prep. Yeah maybe I should have been more prepared, but I was pretty cheesed that CDI got me to rely on those and that was the 4th time (every time it's a Monday class of the last week of an advanced course) and so I wrote a not-completely-unprofessional letter to HQ calling them on their unpreparedness. No reply.

Fast forward to the end of July and I decide I wanna run the gamut again and work for CDI again. I fly in early August to claim a special bonus for making an early training. HQ calls, 30 minutes before orientation and tells me I get the week off because I don't have to train, with my previous year experience. I went in to drop off the diploma to get visa processing started up. Luckily I have friends to stay with cause that was a week off in crappy weather in a foreign country with no money.

Next, I buy my ticket for a week long visa run in Thailand, because I haven't heard anything from CDI and time's running out to get a good fare.

Then I get a call saying because of the aforementioned letter, they will not hire me. After my $900 one-way ticket, and my visa run ticket is paid for. They tell me about the letter written in APRIL that they just got NOW about unpreparedness. "That's not how we do things here." So now I'm stuck in this country...ohh yeah, and I'm pretty sure my BA and TESL certificate are lost in the mail because it's been 10 days and it was shipped within Seoul.

I am reporting these reprobates to the authorities, and then, unless I find my diploma, borrowing money from the family to come home. Thank you so very much, CDI for taking every possible way to screw me over.

If anyone would like to shed a tear, or call me a sucker, now's the time.

[bellum99]

Bet you regret the letter...now. I agree it sucks..but you really should have had confirmation before buying the ticket...again...hindsight is 100%. Sorry you had such crappy luck.

[mawz]

I don't regret the letter. Someone needed to say something. I don't feel like it was that bad an idea.

[yingwenlaoshi]

I don't see why you cared about being prepared in the first place. Just go, "Oh well" and teach the class.

How are you supposed to prepare for it anyway? Don't they just pay you to teach the class? What do you do? Prepare at home? Fk 'em.

I could go on, but that was all in the past. They agreed to hire you, flew you over, and then fkd you. That's not cool.

[seoulsista]

Maybe you shouldn't have written that letter but if they didn't want to hire you back they owed you that info. BEFORE you went on the visa run. And the fact that it took them over four months to read it only confirms the accuracy of the content.

[mrsquirrel]

Do a turd into a condom and tie it up.
dip condom in oil and place inside another condom tie it up as well.
put condom into plastic bag that has been rubbed in oil on the inside
take said plastic bag to CDI office and hide it somewhere discreet
leave.

Wait about two weeks for rubber to rot and poo to fester and laugh away from your apartment in Seoul.

[jinks]

[mrsquirrel]

[mawz]

Hahahahaha, thanks for the revenge info. Yeah, my problem isn't not being hired...there's plenty of other jobs. The problem is that the letter was way before I even considered re-applying, and they had plenty of time to tell me before I flew over, let alone made my visa run arrangements. I just wanted people to see this story for another warning about that douchey company. I absolultely do not regret writing that letter. I would have been more than happy to find out I couldn't come back to CDI, but from home. That would have freed me from coming back to Korea!

I'm not gonna turn this into an anti-Korea thread, but I am going to let this experience be the final nail in the coffin for ME not working in this country. I'm gonna miss my high-tech lifestyle, and the dirty stares from older men, and the legs of the Korean ladies, but maybe I'll win the lottery, or read about a structural collapse on the 9th and 14th floor of the KTF tow--err uhh, I'm not bitter! In other news...there's suddenly some gizmos and gadgets for sale...

[The_Conservative]

[LexusNexus]

[mawz]

College, baby!

[Cheonmunka]

That reminds me of a co-worker friend who hated the bosses so made a smallish hole in the plaster in the shop area where management sat around and when they were out stuck a fish into the wall cavity and moved a poster over it.

[riley]

My sympathies, CDI did a number on me too, though it was a lot quicker than your situation and mine involved an email accidently mailed to the wrong person.

[DCJames]