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[mgafunnell]

hi there,

last week i read a thread about the craziest foreigner stories, so how about your craziest KT/boss stories?

i'll get the ball rolling:

i was in the middle of teaching a class when suddenly, my boss rushes into the room with dog feces in his hand and starts chasing the students with it. the kids became over stimulated and the rest of the classtime had become an exercise in futility. after class, my boss asks me why i wasn't able to manage the class after he came in. I told him it was because of he disturbed the class with dog poo.

"no i didn't", he relpied

[hwarangi]

It was someone's birthday so we bought a cake into the office and sung "Happy Birthday" (there were about 5 of us). Then we sliced up the cake and ate it. It took all of 2 minutes. The boss at the time was so upset by the noise disturbance that he shut his eyes and clenched his fists and prayed to God to give him the strength to get through the song.

[clay4bc]

One fine Sunday morning at around 9am, still drunk from the night before, I somehow manage to wake up to the sound of my cellphone. For some reason (likely to stop the noise) I answer it.
"Hello," said I.
"YOU BROKE MY SON'S PENCIL," Shrieks my boss, at the top of his lungs.
WTF???
"Excuse me," I enquire. "What are you talking about?"
Boss, even louder "YOU BROKE MY SON'S PENCIL!!!"
Me again. "Dude, I don't know what your on about, but talk to me at work about it, and don't yell at me ever again. Now piss off - I'm sleeping"

The work-week week goes by, with the boss nowhere to be seen. Friday was payday....Written on my pay envelope (we were payed in cash, so as to avoid taxes and such) was the message "No beoken [sic] pencil - no problem."
This lame attempt at - what, an apology? - just aggravates me. I march into his office, and explain in no uncertain terms that there was a problem with his thinking he can just yell at me for no reason.
He retaliates by threatening that he is an 11th degree blackbelt, and he will beat me up.
I tell him to make his move....
He threatens again - this time with the Korean mafia.
Things escalated from there....
Sunday finds me leaving the job for saner climes. (sadly, I have yet to find the sanity in Korea as of yet...)

[Papa Smurf]

[yingwenlaoshi]

"Could you please hurry up through the book. You have four classes left to finish 6 more units of the textbook. Oh wait. You have 2 classes left before the new term because of two party days. But you should finish the book. Oh, and can you give the students tests and give the top students 3 stickers, the next ones down 2 and the rest 1? The students like stickers and have been complaining that you haven't been giving them any."



Just a second. Let me get out my magic fkg wand, you stupid pschyzoid. And eat it, Mrs. Idiot.

[clay4bc]

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Not my coteach at the time, but the next year he became my offsider. I'm in the next room and the other white monkey teaching grade 2 is reading a story from the text to his class. In said book, there is a character called "Juan" which the lad pronounces in the usual Spanish way, "Hwan". Pumpkin Head, the K-teach in question leaps up from his study of the bible and shouts, "nooooooooo!!!!", "it's Joo-wan!" (pronounced like the subway station in Seoul). Bewildered, white boy says, "sorry chap, but it's Hwan" to which Pumpkin Head replies, "no it's not, because when I was in Australia I learned how to say that word". My buddy continues on, shaking his head and disregarding the idiot. Later, it took both of us about 10 minutes to school the fool on the nuances of Latino names.

This is just a small sample of the lunacy that is Mr Eom of Dae Sung elementary school in Cheongju. He comes from a small rural town in buttfeck, Gyeongsanbuk do and has the IQ of a tractor. There are a few other posters on this board who have had the misfortune of sharing a classroom with the tw@t. I am hoping they will post more stories.

[sobriquet]

Boss cancelled pay-day as he was in a car crash

I went to the bakers to get dinner and he was in the bar on the corner getting tanked.

Went in and stood beside him and he looked like he had seen a ghost.

Next day we were paid and I was told by my manager the boss was steadying his nerves after the accident.

[egrog1717]

I was told a few days back to create lesson plans based on books that the school hadn't purchased yet... (IE: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and the like)...
When I told my co-teacher that this was quite impossible, her reply was "Can't you just look that up on the internet?"...

Needless to say I made her take me shopping the next day, lol...

[Oreovictim]

Mine would still have to be from my gig last year. (I posted the story on here once.)

My director's wife, who spoke about as much English as the average foreigner speaks Korean, wrote a few plays for the students. My fellow foreign coworker corrected the grammar so that the sentences actually made sense.

The wife's feelings were hurt, and the director had a little "talk" with my coworker. (He might have had the coworker apologize, too.) The director then threw away the edited play and had the students learn the weird-a$$ English version.

[Xuanzang]

[Socks]

[Oreovictim]