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What Are You Getting Co-Workers For Christmas?
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grandpa



Joined: 19 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:10 pm    Post subject: What Are You Getting Co-Workers For Christmas? Reply with quote
Who at your work are you buying gifts for, and what are you buying them?
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The Gipkik



Joined: 30 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Co-workers, principal, vice-principal are all getting nice Christmas cards. Gifts? Forget about it!
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hellofaniceguy



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
NADA, zip, zero, nothing. Maybe....I'll wish 'em "Happy Holidays."
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Cerulean



Joined: 19 Aug 2009
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nothing.
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zappadelta



Joined: 31 Aug 2004
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Gipkik wrote:
Co-workers, principal, vice-principal are all getting nice Christmas cards. Gifts? Forget about it!



If you like your job, this is a bad idea. You should get the principal something better than everyone else.
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Old Gil



Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Swine flu and mouth AIDS. Pucker up 교장님!!!!
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The Gipkik



Joined: 30 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
zappadelta wrote:

If you like your job, this is a bad idea. You should get the principal something better than everyone else.


I've tried to quit my job, but the principal and vice principal intervened and gave me more holidays. I've declined several invitations from the principal to go on trips--with good reasons, mind you. Trust me, I'm following a very consistent and hopelessly egalitarian mindset against the tide of hierarchical conformism that is rampant among teachers here. I treat everyone with respect and kindness, but no one gets special treatment. No one. That is the ethical foundation that I follow and believe in. If I were at a school that feels that hierarchical precedents must be followed, I would just leave. No arguments. To my mind, it is the consistent behavior that I adhere to that keeps me being indispensable. And I don't mind NOT being indispensable. Not in the least.
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grandpa



Joined: 19 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I despise shopping for other people, cause I have no clue what to buy.

What do you all think of this for Christmas gifts:

Co-Teachers = Basic Christmas cards from Home Plus
Vice-Principal = Basic Christmas card and 15,000 won bottle of wine from Home Plus
Principal = Basic Christmas card and 20,000 won bottle of wine from Home Plus

Will that make them all happy?
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BigLarry



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
Location: Anywhere there is wine.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scotch for the Principal, wine for the Vice and some chocolates for the rest.

I'll probably take my co-teacher out for dinner, though she deserves a house in France for all the work she has to do, along with tolerating me.
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grandpa



Joined: 19 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
BigLarry wrote:
Scotch for the Principal, wine for the Vice and some chocolates for the rest.

I'll probably take my co-teacher out for dinner, though she deserves a house in France for all the work she has to do, along with tolerating me.


Who are "the rest"?
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BigLarry



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
grandpa wrote:
Who are "the rest"?


I do hope that this is a joke. It's too late on a Sunday night to explain basic logic.
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grandpa



Joined: 19 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
BigLarry wrote:
grandpa wrote:
Who are "the rest"?


I do hope that this is a joke. It's too late on a Sunday night to explain basic logic.


"The rest" could mean co-teachers, finance office workers, secretary, homeroom teachers, cooks ....

That is why I asked you to clarify.
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