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chi-chi
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canuckistan
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| Pack your stuff, get your diploma if you can, go to Incheon or wherever and just leave for Japan for a day. DO NOT overstay your tourist visa even if it means leaving the second diploma behind. You can always get another. These people are treating you like utter crap and if they want you to work until Friday are just setting you up for a nice fine with immigration and possibly big problems getting a new E-2 with a new school if you want to come back because you overstayed. Forget about the money they owe you too, you can earn it back with a legit school 10 times over. The most important thing is NOT to get into trouble with immigration because they hold the key to any future employment for yourself in Korea. There are cheap enough places to live for a month or so once back in Korea for you to get things straightened out again. |
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chi-chi
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:31 am Post subject: |
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canuckistan
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I'd forgo the extension and just leave and come back and be legal with *lots of time* to A) find another job/get another diploma (and apt!) B) proceed TO DRAG THEIR ROTTED BUTTS through every immigration/labour office known in Korea. Yes they're totally trying to screw you. Say nothing, just leave. Revenge is best served up cold with the immigration boyz at their door and maybe the police for "theft" of your diploma. It wouldn't be the first time immigration heard your story.
As ar as your boyfriend not having housing, well there's nothing you can do about that. There are lots of cheap yogwons and goshiwons to stay at. You'll be much better off staying independent of their apt if you want to lodge a complaint/start swinging a big bat. Less stress too. I think they've served you up enough hey? |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| Is there any way I can fight back (maybe I'll be the first in this situation, but who knows? It's the employer's responsibility to process a visa...) |
Canuckistan, as usual, posted some good advice there.
You could send EFL-Law an email. Or get in touch with the Labour Board (who, if you're owed wages, won't look at the legalities of visas & immigration).
Yes, it's the employer's responsibility to process a visa and this is probably not what you want to hear right now, but it's also yours to not work until you have the appropriate visa. There are risks of getting ripped off even with the right visa, but the risks are greatly magnified when you work illegally.
chi-chi - you really are following in the footsteps of Derrek! Hope it all works out for the best.
Here are some threads about finding accommodation in Seoul, if you are coming back and need somewhere to stay.
ACCOMMODATION
1. Good Hotels For One Month
2. New Job - Housing Costs in Seoul
3. Go Shi Wons? (Study Rooms)
4. Finding My Own Pad
5. Need Help Finding a Place to Rent |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Chi-chi,
I agree with Wasserbebe. I'd also follow Canuck's advice....
As for revenge....well, there was a great link about revenge...but alas, it's been deleted.
Bugger!
A simple one could be to gain all the students' home addresses, email, phone numbers as an English exercise. Once gone, you have the choice to contact each parent and inform them on how the other school down the street is better than the one you worked for.....
I've packing to accomplish, but shall post a good list of revenge possibilities...
Oh, as for the CHEAPEST place to stay..."jok bang" around 50,000 a month, but they are about 1 pyeong and usually those on the vergre of homelessness stay there....
Shoosh,
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Basil Brush
Joined: 13 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:41 am Post subject: Is sympathy and agreement the answer for Chi-Chi's problems? |
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| The reasons given for my termination were that the Korean teachers didn't like me because I am not "like them", I "worked too long on a tourist visa" (although they neglected to process it) and that the "parents complain that I did not speak to them" (even though they never spoke to me, and I have so many students that I do not know whose parents are whose-mine or the other teachers.) |
Forgive me if I get this wrong, but from the above, some people believe you:
 Didn't get on with your colleagues or work like them;
Didn't know who you were teaching;
Ignored the parents.
And for the advice you had previously, let me add:
The police will not be interested in something that was lost.
Immigration, if prompted, will investigate the employee and employer.
Unless money is owed, the labor board will not be interested if the employee has been employed less than 6 months
Let's be candid. How many job's have you had Chi-Chi, say in the last 12 months? 4? 5? Forget revenge. Move on.
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And you've already stated that you work for Kid's Herald in Seoul... |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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Chi-Chi:
Come back to Taiwan and get set up in Taipei.
If you were interested, I could turn you on to some teaching gigs and a relatively stress-free life of EFL here in Taipei.
You sound like you have sh*t for luck, though. |
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chi-chi
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