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[princess]

How sad of a world we live in when people can't evn go to work and trust their coworkers. A teacher at my school today had 600,000 won stolen from her purse while she was teaching. Back in November, I had 300,000 taken from mine. I have been carrying my purse to classes ever since. At a pevious school, teachers were getting money stolen from their bags but I never did, because I took my bag to class. But the year I decide to try and trust my coworkers by leaving my purse on my chair when I go teach, I get money stolen. Now, here is this teacher today having the same thing happen to her. I have my suspicions about who did it. I think my school should have searched everyone today, but they didn't. The girl even said there should be a search, but there wasn't. I would almost bet money that the same person who stole from me, stole from her today. Now, I want to see if she will take her bag to class from now on. Someone at my previous school didn't learn their lesson, left their bag behind again and had money stolen again. Never fully trust most people, I say.

[OnTheOtherSide]

Personally I never leave cash or valuable in unsafe places, ever.

Last week some kids went through my backpack and stole all my food. If I had money the little ba$tards would have stolen it too.

When it comes to cash. Nobody an ever be trusted.

[tob55]

I have not had such a large amount of money stolen from my things, but the students are given liberty to come into the teacher's room when they want or need something. It is a real problem because I have had numerous things stolen frequently. I had a $50 set of headphones stolen that were studio recording quality because that is what I used to do before coming here from the States. The little things add up. I guess over the four years in my Public School I probably had at least $300 - $400 worth of things stolen. 99% of it wasn't replaced.

Nowadays, I just tell the f'rs to stay the hell away from my things. They look at me with this shocked, "how could the foreigner talk to me this way" look and I tell them, go tell your mom and dad the foreigner yelled at you. I want them to come to school and try to get me fired.

My co-teacher often takes the side of students when issues of thievery or ruining my clothes, which was the latest when one of my "nice" students gave me a broken pen intentionally, knowing that it was going to leak ink all over my shirt. I came in the next day with the ruined shirt and showed it to my co-teacher. We went to class, and what does she do, "the students said they didn't do it." Yeah, right I decided I wanted to ruin my own $40 shirt. I am a big guy and shirts are not that cheap for me like they are for the anorexic Koreans.

I could go on, but I don't want to completely hijack this thread. Too bad for the OP. I hope everyone has learned a valuable lesson. When it comes to students, you are not their friend, and even more so, they cannot be trusted.

[Lekker]

That's nothing.

When I was in high school, a kid in my graduating class for a senior prank took the gym teacher's keys to his Z3 and whipped it around the block a few times, then he drove it to his house and back. Put the keys back where he found them, never got caught.

[maddog]

In my hagwon, we have CCTV footage of a student going in the director's office and lifting his wallet. I didn't believe it til I saw it with my own eyes. Trust no-one.

[Kikomom]

I'm just wondering: How many of you packed your old school locks? This is not a new phenomena, having stuff stolen.

But Tob has a good idea here, shoo them away with a stern warning:

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

why would you keep that much cash on you at any one time.....ATMs are everywhere so its not like you need a supply at the ready, especially at work.

[jiyull]

Money is tight in Korea these days...

No matter which country you're in...you should always keep your belongings with you at all times or at least closeby.

[princess]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[caniff]

[Oreovictim]

$300.00? That's horrible.

I remember my first few weeks in Korea. At my hagwon, some money ended up missing. You see, the kids would bring in the monthly fees and my old boss (let's just call him c0ck svcker) and his wife would just leave money on the front desk in the lobby.

Well, of course some student stole some cash. The director mentioned it to us, and my foreigner coworker and I said, "I wonder which student took the money." My director replied, "I don't think it was a student." Then he made a rule that only the director and his wife were allowed behind the front desk. So that meant no more surfing the web during break.

A few months later, some student came into the teachers' room, stole some money out of the director's wallet and took his ID. Again, my coworker and I felt as if we were being blamed.

So months later, I leave my class to get a marker from the office, and there's this new little bast#$d student, looking through my backpack. The director wasn't in, so I got his wife, and she makes the kid empty out his pockets. He didn't have anything, but here's what the pr1ck did. While going through my back, he bumped my camera and took a picture of himself. (For some reason, I haven't been able to upload pics on Photoshop. Once I figure it out, I'll post.)

So, the next day I mention this story to my boss about kids going in the office, going through stuff. I show him the pictures on the camera, and he and one of the Korean teachers start to laugh as if it were cute.

Man, I would have loved to lock my boss in a non-ventilated room at night with the fan on!

[ryouga013]

The desks in the teachers office all have locks on them... but the keys have been lost...

I am going to get a cheap little box and a padlock for the few times I need to bring in anything worth anything... like my laptop so they don't see it and want play with it... and as it tumbles to the ground they are given a full pardon because "they didn't mean to." No, I'd rather be safe.

[garykasparov]

Purchase a dye pack from an online website.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

It's hardly ever been an issue at my school. I take liberties I never would around Canadian kids. I leave money, my camera, my phone, and cigarettes lying around my desk all the time and nothing's ever gone missing.