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xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

This past summer I was required to sit in the office until 5pm, even though my summer camp classes finished at 12. I never complained about this, as I know that it's written in my contract. About a month ago I asked my co-teacher if I could leave after the classes finish during the winter camp, but was told that I would have to wait and see. Well, my co-teacher is planning the winter camp dates now and I was told that if I finish at noon then I will have to stay until 5 again.

Is there anything that I can do that might get my vice-principal/principal to change their minds and let me go home early, rather than freeze my butt off in the office for 5 hours a day?

nomad-ish

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

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wings · Joined: 09 Nov 2006

I got out of having to stay by claiming that I need a hot lunch everyday, so if they can't give me one at the school (which they can't if I"m the only one here) then I will have to go home so I can cook something for myself, so that I can stay healthy.

nomad-ish · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

My GEPIK contract recognizes the difference between semester time and vacation time by stating that I work 20 hours a week max during vacation time.
This equates to 4 hours per day, and I can't see how they can make me work 8 hours a day like during semester time.

Last camp, they never tried and let me go if I had finished preping for the next day. I always had to spend a few hours as I had no time to do prep till the day before camp.
(This winter, I am doing all the on empty days in school enabling me to leave smartish after a possibly stressful day.)
Last camp, they would order in food, highlight of the day it seems, which may take most of 1 hour to cook and eat. This left me stressed for preping for the after lunch class I had agreed to, everyone else just pottered about for a bit.

If the contract stipulates that you are there from blahblah to blahblah, then you should stay.
If contract says 4 hours a day, then you can interpret 4 hours a day and negotiate.

boyne11 · Joined: 08 Jul 2007

Sick leave is always good bargaining tool.

Use them if you have to. Wink

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

No, I have the one stating 20 hours a week during the break.

It says that normal hours are from 8.30 to 4.30, but break is not normal.

This time I told them that I would do 4 hours a day, no problem.
Last time VP said I could leave after prepped for the next day, this was related to me by the music teacher, but not in a song.

EDIT : 20 a week = 4 a day (8.30-12.30), or 8 a day x 2.5.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

Tell them you want to take the time off to take a Korean class. If you tell them you have a private Koean tutor, then they can't really check up on you to see if you are enrolled. They let teachers at my school go all the time for "professional development".

icnelly · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Location: Bucheon

Where does it say in the GEPIK contract about sitting on your duff all day during the summer and winter? I might have missed it the last time I read through...

fromtheuk · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

I enjoyed summer camp. I had a few weeks alone, without my co-teacher. I felt relaxed teaching.

I have already bought a heater for work, I advise you to do the same, that way you won't feel so cold.

I personally don't mind staying until 4.40pm. I just surf the net and sit around looking around the room, feeling appreciative and thankful I have complete peace and quiet.

For me it feels a bit like vacation time.

boyne11 · Joined: 08 Jul 2007

fromtheuk · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

During class they will put on the heating, but in the afternoon when my class has finished, I assume the heating will be turned off.

In my office, which is next door to the English classroom, there is a vent for the heating to come through, but I think it's faulty and never works.

I was forewarned by my co-teacher to bring in a heater for winter camp. I bought one anyway, before that advice, when it started to get too cold in my office (especially during the afternoons).

I haven't taken a day off sick since the start of this job, about 7 months ago, I will start to use them nearer the end of the contract, if I really want to.