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Should I leverage myself with my Ivy League degree?
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dogbert



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Lemon wrote:
dogbert wrote:
What's with all the teasing? Same thing back with the EnfCorp thread. Just tell us or not, please, but stop with the teasers.


Not teasing. With the EnfCorp thing I had a good idea what was going on. and told everyone what I knew as I learned it - not what people were claiming privately and publicly, but what I was able to prove to be true. And I tried to do so without revealing any private user information - IP addresses, real names, etc.

This one isn't so clear. We have someone posting like she's in Korea, but she isn't. That's a fact. This thread was also created under the same "I'm making it look like I'm in Korea, but I'm really not" premise. You'll have to ask her if this was deliberate or not - I don't know.

I stepped in here when I saw discrepencies with what I knew to be true (origins of IP addresses) and what seemed to be claimed publicly. We have a rule in the guidelines about trolling, and things certainly look(ed) odd.

But beyond that, I don't know what's true and what's not. It's up to GSG to explain to you all why she has posted this way. And when she does, or if she chooses not to, you can draw conclusions from that yourselves.


Sorry, but you said you know what her reason is, but it's up to her to tell it.

I'm glad you're privy to inside information, but I don't like the teasing and yes, the EnfCorp thread is full of the same thing.
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The Lemon



Joined: 11 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry Dogbert, but I'm not going to reveal what she tells me on PMs. That's the way it is. Deal with it. I learned she wasn't in Korea through the IP addresses that were logged, not through private messages. And that's all I'm able to tell you. It's also the only thing I know to be a fact.
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dogbert



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. I will indeed "deal with it".
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kiwioutofthenest



Joined: 29 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glowstickgirl:
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it's ok. i think it's a natural reaction from some folk to put down people with ivy league degrees...


Na just a natural reaction to be sceptical and so you have proven my point.... why lie and tell people you are here on a great contract etc with loads of privates? to make people jelous? you want or need our respect? cummon sort yourself out theres much more to life than making up stories....buy a goldfish or something and stop wasting peoples time.
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't know about you poor people but I'm on 2.5, 3hours a day, no weekends, I charge 55.000w for my privates every day, with married women who i sleep with, and my boss pays for all my meals and sattelite TV. I'm secretly russian, and I don't even have a degree!! If you are on anything less than that, you're being ripped off!
(And my name is Marlon Brando).
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Homer
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GlowstickGirl aint in Korea?

Well..who cares...in fact who cares where she is and what she is... Laughing
Because, as we all know, she, he or it has a en "Ivy League" degree... Rolling Eyes
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matthewwoodford



Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

To the OP's question: yes.

Yes, you should hustle. If you have an F4 visa you can hustle your way into a plum job asap too.

And please will you tell everyone the truth about where you are cos I'm sure everyone else is as curious as me? Smile

Matt

(not in Korea but hopefully soon will be)
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The Man known as The Man



Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!

PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Homer wrote:
GlowstickGirl aint in Korea?

Well..who cares...in fact who cares where she is and what she is... Laughing
Because, as we all know, she, he or it has a en "Ivy League" degree... Rolling Eyes


Homer,


It is 640pm.


By 740pm I will be at The Duke of Somerset to take advantage of their cheap wings that are cheap until 8pm-and hockey will be on.

Homer, will you be at The Duke of Somerset this fine Thursday evening?

Homer, do you like it in The Simpsons episode The PinPals bowling team where Homer congratulates his buddies for rhyming "Homer" with "Homer"?

WELL?

I will be wearing a dark purple shirt, dark brown jacket. I'm out of here in 3 minutes, so I probably won't read a respons.


Homer rhymes with Homer.

HTH
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billbile



Joined: 10 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So what is an Ivy League university then, when it's at home?

I never really heard much about them before I came to Korea. Are they important? My university in New Zealand had ivy growing on it, I am proud to report.
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marsha marsha marsha



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:30 pm    Post subject: In the south Reply with quote

Well, in the south in the states, we have "Kudzu League" universities cause that is about all that grows on buildings there.
Laughing
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xat552000



Joined: 02 Oct 2003
Location: seoul

PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As someone with a B.A. (or A.B. when I'm in a pretentious mood) from an Ivy League university, I can state unequivocally that one's college alma mater has absolutely no bearing on one's intelligence or ability to succeed in life (and by most conservative standards, success means income level and job status).

However, Koreans and unfortunately Korean-Americans as well are overly obsessed with education backgrounds (those having gone to Harvard somehow being inherently better human beings, not just more intelligent, that those who went to a state university such as U.Mass. or other local Boston schools like Boston U. or Boston College). I'm not completely sure where this attitude comes from, but my guess is that it has to do with the whole confucian influence as well as the inferiority complex that any group of people would have if they had been historically oppressed (as Koreans have been). It's really silly when you come right down to it, but as regards these english-schools, it's their right to hire whomever they choose. They do not operate under u.s. laws. Oh well!

If you don't like it there, come back home to the U.S.
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lush72



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

xat552000 wrote:
If you don't like it there, come back home to the U.S.


She would first have to actually go to Korea for her to "come back home to the U.S."

GSG's posts are confusing when you read them KNOWING she is not in Korea. Why she posts this way is anyones guess.
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xat552000



Joined: 02 Oct 2003
Location: seoul

PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure Lush if you are criticizing what I've written, but I'm presuming you're an ethnic Korean. Writing that your location is in the Samsung building looking down upon the peons around city hall indicates your own personal insecurity..It also indicates that you're loafing on the job and hopefully your superiors will find out about this.

I wrote the whole "A.B. when I'm in a pretentious mood" to be sarcastic. I met so many arrogant spoiled jackasses at my college and don't keep in touch with any of them here less than a decade after I graduated. I am thankful for the few normal people I befriended then that make my college memories pleasant. Looking back on the experience however, I know I would have been better off at a state university. It certainly would have been cheaper.

And I'm a kyopo by the way.
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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

xat, i think you're reading too much into what he said, relax. He was criticizing the OP, not you (except maybe your reading skills).
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lush72



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!

PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 2:51 pm    Post subject: ? Reply with quote

xat552000 wrote:
I'm not sure Lush if you are criticizing what I've written, but I'm presuming you're an ethnic Korean. Writing that your location is in the Samsung building looking down upon the peons around city hall indicates your own personal insecurity..It also indicates that you're loafing on the job and hopefully your superiors will find out about this.


Good morning Xat552000,

Before you presume anything why don�t you give the person the benefit of the doubt and PM them before you go off on an Internet forum?

I don�t really understand why you thought I was criticizing what you wrote, but let me take the time to tell you, no, I was not. Your quip about the Samsung building was sort of cryptic, did you want to say that because I work there I must be an ethnic Korean? Can you tell me how you came to the conclusion that my location line made you think that I am ��looking down upon the peons around city hall�? I�ll admit that was such an asinine assumption on your part that I almost spilled my coffee laughing at it. You also wrote �It also indicates that you're loafing on the job and hopefully your superiors will find out about this.� Wow. You really have a lot of pent up hostility don�t you? What�s wrong? Do you have something against ethnic Koreans? From the tone of your post I think you might. Actually, it really doesn�t matter to me either way what your personal insecurities or problems may be as long as you stop projecting them on to me.

Good day to you.
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