Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Mr. Pink]

[Gord]

[wylde]

is your boss a good man/woman?
are you being paid on time?
are you?
do you?
have you?
... are things other than hours and prep work good?

blow it dude..throw in 2 free hours a day, throw in 6.. i do sometimes and it doesn't kill me..
i take work home. in my last school i had 170 evaluations to write every month (which took about 15 hours). now i have 750 diaries to check and correct, i don't want to but my job is to teach... i don't complain about hours or money. all these things were not in the contract but.... when i hear about some of the sorry ass stories on here, i am greatful it only cost me a bit of my time and nothing more

[prairieboy]

I have to agree with Gord. You signed the contract for 6 classes a day. Regardless of what was said about only being required to do one hour of prep a day for the classes you have to prep for the classes. Prep time is included in your monthly salary.

If you have to do 6 classes a day then you have to prep those classes. If it only takes more than an hour for you to prep then that's what it takes. Also, all adminstrative duties required for my classes is included in my pay. I don't get anything extra.

I'm only paid by the class. If I work more than x classes in a month then I get overtime pay above my base salary. Prep time is not paid separately, so even though I'm on site, either in class or prepping for my class or marking assignments, I'm only paid for the time I'm in class.

If you don't like your situation then quit. You can always find a better contract that is not vaguely worded.

Cheers and goodluck.

[Derrek]

I think her complaint is more about having to take work home in addition to doing the hour of prep work AND being at the school the required hours.

Can't say that I blame her for not liking it, and I'd be against it too -- the daily "take home at night" stuff for sure. Once and a while is just a job, but every night? Not for me. I wouldn't let the boss do that to me. Not in a hagwon situation.

I'm not a Korean lemming.

[ulsanchris]

here are a couple of ideas for you to suggest to your boss.
1. if you are getting enough new students suggest getting a new teacher. this will spread out the work and also allow for the boss to try and get more students.
2. schedule a half hour or hour break in the middle of the teaching schedule in order for everyone to do some paper work and have some dinner.

[schwa]

I side with the 'just buckle down & do it' voices. Its natural to grumble but extra pay isnt on & when its done you can party. If more people on this forum understood that their job is the means to a pretty decent lifestyle & savings but also needs to come first in their considerations, there'd be a lot less whining.

[SweetBear]

The taking home after school paperwork is taking advantage IMO. for a prof. at a Uni, yeah, for a hagwon, no. Unpaid lesson prep goes with the territory, all the extra paperwork? No. How much time are you actually spending doing this stuff?

As an aside, we have two new teachers, fresh off the boat, never taught before, they come in 20 mins. before their classes start and give the textbooks a cursory glance. Our director is in serious financial difficulty plus " they are so cute" to quote him. They don't seem to know that this is not okay.

[Mr. Pink]