Korean Job Discussion Forums

[nautilus]

Lets imagine for a moment that there are zero repercussions for speaking your mind and being brutally honest in the Korean workplace.And that you can speak korean fluently enough to express yourself.



here's mine:

For ajosshi teacher A:
"you're 47 yrs old, yet you act like an 18 yr old. Don't you realise that your attempts to try and hog the limelight and impress the married women at staff dinners..with jokes nobody finds funny...and ocassionally by inviting other male teachers to arm wrestle after several sojus.. actually make you look incredibly insecure?"

[sarahsiobhan]

I have 2.

1) "Please, for the love of everything good and holy, brush your teeth before leaning in and talking to me with your face 3 inches from mine."

2) "By the way, trash-talking the other NET at our school to me every chance you get doesn't make me like you more. Quite the opposite, actually, as you are assuredly doing the exact same thing to him, about me."

[Leslie Cheswyck]

"You do know why you keep getting headaches every morning, right?"

[Chaucer]

Stop cracking your gum, ajuma-teacher!

[blackjack]

I have a new co teacher so

Look you know I have been in Korea for a couple of years, please don't act so surprised when I can use chopsticks, understand korean and even speak some, eat korean food (if i hear "do you know" one more time ...).

Please stop telling me to go to itaewon all the time, please realise for this job to work we have to work together, we are equal partners here. I don't know what the NET were like at the hagwon you worked at were like but I am not like that and this is not a hagwon job. For god sake smile, me being friendly is not hitting on you.

Yes I have issues with my new co-teacher and miss my old one

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

You smell twice your age.

[ChopChaeJoe]

To learn the perfect tenses, you just have to try them out a bit. I'm sure that after 10-20 uses you'll be ok with it.

[mongolian spot]

'keep your face out of my business'

[waynehead]

Stop chatting about the knock off bags you bought and stfu.

[Teddycakes21]

The fact that I make way more money than you and work less than you is absolutely none of your business. It's called a contract. I was brought in here from the USA. Your struggles have nothing to do with me, my talents, or even my lack of talents. Seriously... stop comparing yourself with me. It's really sickening for me to even have to know you.

[nomad-ish]

i like all of my co-teachers, but there's one man that does annoy me a bit.

me: "i do all the planning, i make the student-friendly/cute powerpoints, and i make all the materials, so why the hell do you think it's ok to hijack my lessons after i put in all the work? if you treat me like an assistant in class then get off your ass during your spare and help me plan. and stop explaining ALL the rules of a game/activity in korean BEFORE i get to it in english. do you really think i haven't picked up enough korean to know what you're doing?!"

end rant

[some waygug-in]

Why are you so insecure about having me teach part of the class?

Why do you feel the need to sabotage everything I do?

Is it really that important to you that I look bad in front of the students?

[reactionary]

Are the in-class sabotaging co-teachers all in elementary school? Mine sure seem that way sometimes. I kind of yearn for the lazy coteachers who just sit in the back of the class and snooze. They are what I expected from reading Dave's.

[reactionary]

ah, and what I want to say to mine:

March can't come fast enough (she will have been at this school for five years - bye bye!)

[Old Gil]