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[Big_Crazy_Ape]

... totally not surprising!

[Whirlwind]

I don't usually reply to many posts, but this one is "special". OP, you are being used and abused. You do know how desperate they are to get teachers here. You do realize that you hold the cards here. YOU have the power. I've been in Korea for years and I've heard of some doozies, but having the teachers come to your aparment and then having you teach them when you are quite sick, well, that might top the list. Unethical on their part and they show you no respect whatsoever. Like another poster said, I wish that I could be in your place because they wouldn't find me quite as easy to deal with. As everyone else has said, you have to learn to say "no" and get in their face a bit, don't back down. Would you put up with such nonsense back home? If not, why do you put up with it here? Good luck with your situation. Be strong and firm.

[Cheonmunka]

Like a John Malkovich movie.

[Hank the Iconoclast]

They are totally abusing your situation and they have no idea how to deal with you. Obviously, they don't deserve a native teacher since they fail to treat you like an actual human being instead of some monkey. You need to quit and find a better position. Teaching at seven schools is bad enough but teaching from your apartment with a fever is beyond ludicrous. Many people teach at public schools, including myself, and I would never take that.

[ernie]

you're getting walked on here, and the only person to blame is YOU... next time, say 'NO' and end the discussion... in fact, don't even let it turn into a discussion... now that you've shown a total lack of backbone, it's time to start laying down the law, or else this will become routine...

[travelingfool]

What gets me are the teachers who agreed to come to your apartment to have you teach them. Aren't they concerned about getting sick as well? Some Koreans are really retarded! What if each and every one of those other teachers catch what you have? Then they are going to have a real staff shortage! I guess Korea really is the place where common sense and logic come to die.

[driftingfocus]

[Hanson]

Try telling them you sleep with a fan on...

[IlIlNine]

I would have been tempted to vomit during class.

Ha! That would have taught them...

[Young FRANKenstein]

[NightSky]

driftingfocus,

you said in the other post you're not a guy. so my analogy that you're like a girlfriend that keeps going back to her abusive boyfriend is still appropriate. upon doing a search of your past posts...

you've said you are on meds for bipolar and OCD.

you've only been working for a few weeks, so you haven't gotten your first paycheck, right? but you have no money. you have pages upon pages of posts asking for advice on settling in to korea, but it never occurred to you to take the most important advice of all...BRING ENOUGH MONEY to keep you going or bail you out of a bad situation. so you don't want to leave this job because you have no money. not very bright.

you gave this advice to another poster. hmm..nothing like taking your own advice. "Quit and get a different job that respects you as a human being." (from this thread) http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=1622348&highlight=#1622348

[KYC]

Yeah I'm wondering if this is for real or just trolling....

too unbelievable--that crap that one's willing to take that is. I've met some pushovers but this is....

[Poemer]

This forum has become a veritable gold mine of comedic misadventures lately. I don't know whether to laugh or cry though. . .

[Atavistic]

[agoodmouse]

Why bring this up when he took a sick day and is writing to us that his coworkers forced themselves into his house to get tutored in a teachers workshop?