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grandpa
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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 Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: What Are You Getting Co-Workers For Christmas? |
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| 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
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Co-workers, principal, vice-principal are all getting nice Christmas cards. Gifts? Forget about it! |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| NADA, zip, zero, nothing. Maybe....I'll wish 'em "Happy Holidays." |
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Cerulean
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| Nothing. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| 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!
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Swine flu and mouth AIDS. Pucker up 교장님!!!! |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:58 am Post subject: |
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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.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| 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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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| 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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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:44 am Post subject: |
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A plate of cookies for everyone. There's too many teachers to buy a gift for everyone. I don't want to be stuck choosing the teachers who help me more, and just buying gifts for those people, too messy.
So, I'll make a big batch of cookies. I'll put it in the office in the morning. All my coworkers are stick-thin women in their 20s and early 30s. They attack cookies/cake/chicken/pizza like hyenas. The teachers in the office at the time will inhale them in about 30 seconds flat, a few other teachers might get lucky enough to find out about them. Otherwise, the other teachers are out of luck. At least at that point they can blame each other and not me. |
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English Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| Seeing as how it really isn't a big holiday for Koreans, and a lot of people won't even be giving their own family members gifts, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that you don't really have to bother buying your coworkers gifts. I never did back home (where it is a big deal) but I did buy cards for most coworkers (although here that is not so much of a custom - none of the teachers at my school did it last year, so I don't see the need to either). It almost feels like there would be as much point buying gifts to mark Christmas as there would be to celebrate Diwalhi or Eid. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| I will give Christmas cards to the English teachers and the Principal and VP. If you surprise everyone with gifts and they have nothing for you, they will lose face. That can be a negative. |
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