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[Trinitarian]

OK here's the situation in a nutshell.

Before I came to Korea from the Philippines I was assured by my boss that there would be no problem bringing my step-daughter here. I would arrive first and my wife and daughter would come soonthereafter (they are both Filipinas)

I arrived and immigration gave my boss and I a very difficult time bringing my step-daughter here. I was very upset because my my boss ASSURED me there wouldn't be any problem. I had to call my wife many many times to figure out what we needed to do in order to bring our daughter here. I was calling her constantly about paperwork, forms, documents that were needed to be signed, photocopied on and on. It got so overwhelming with the red tape that I almost returned to the Philippines. Added to all this disaster was trying to teach and get by in a foreign country. My was devastated with the mess involved.

The phone bill arrived and it was 1 million won. My boss expects me to pay it but I stated that these were not personal phone calls but were in fact work related. I never expected to be apart from my family this long and I think it is unfair that I should foot the bill since it was my boss who assured me that there wouldn't be "any problem".

Should she pay all of it? Should I pay all of it? Should there be some kind of percantage that each one of us pays?

What do you think is the FAIR thing that ought to be done?

Thank you.

[Cracker006]

Holy crap... 1mil?

Well dude the crappy thing is... regardless of who is right and who is wrong, he'll take it out of your paycheck.

If you can't bring your wife and daughter, why don't you just go back?

If I were you, I'd tell him you're prefectly willing to pay it, you just need him to take it out VERY slowly ($100 a month?)

Then get your paycheck and leave.

I'm curious how you managed to get a 1mil phone bill. I would call home to the USA on my cell phone about 1x a week and talk for 45 minutes to an hour, and it only cost about $130

[xtchr]

To be completely blunt, Korean bosses will say whatever it is they think you want to hear, and none of them have a clue about how Immigration works.

It is up to you to sort your personal/wife/children/pet cat situation out. Unless your wife and step-daughter will be working for your boss, technically it is nothing to do with your boss.

So, I don't see that the phone calls were work related, and unfortunately you will be left with the whole sum.

[Trinitarian]

I know how things go in Korea but I was just wondering what YOU think is the fair thing.

My wife was panicking about the situation. She was contantly calling and going to the Korean Embassy in Manila as well.

[spliff]

Work related... Good luck.

[Trinitarian]

Technically it does have to do with my boss. One ought not to make assurances - especially about laws in their country - they have no idea of.

[spliff]

So, when is he paying? You are dumb...ever hear of a phone card?

[Trinitarian]

You assume my boss is a "he". I never stated such.

Learn how to read...

[nicholas_chiasson]

gender aside, you believed a korean who needed you to show up. OUCH!

[pkang0202]

[R-Seoul]

Heard of Skype? Or failing that the million & one internet companies that allow you to call landlines for a pittance. Or failing that a fucking phone card.

You just can't make this stuff up