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[reactionary]

I feel like I've been asked to bring in my passport and ARC at least three times.

Today on coolmessenger I get a message from someone "in charge of education statistics" asking me when my birthday was, how long I've been teaching at this school (uh, 6 months!!!), how many hours I teach per week, and even my salary.

They have this information!!! Ask the person with the copy of my contract!!!

[Ramen]

[Senior]

My previous co-teacher had a nice file made up of all that info. My new co-teacher came to me asking some trivial piece of info, I directed her to the file. The response.....

"What file?"

[CentralCali]

Two years ago, my coteacher started cursing as she hung up the phone. I asked her what was wrong and her response was, "Those morons keep NOTHING!" She was referring to the admin types at the city's office of education, of course. Like Senior's previous coteacher, this one had a file of every document that concerned me. My coteacher this year is learning fast that she needs to do the same thing and to also ask pertinent questions before doing the Korean/Pavlovian reaction. That's because I refuse to give any information without answers to "Who wants it? Why do they want it? What will they do with that information?"

The funniest thing about all this is that a few years ago, the NEIS program was supposed to be altered to make all this stuff simple for everyone involved: pay personnel, administration personnel, supervisers, and even us foreign teachers, and it was supposed to restrict the information to only people whose duties actually required such knowledge. I've never been able to get the program to work for me nor have any of the foreign teachers I personally know in my city.

I was hoping this year would be different and the program would work. Alas, it doesn't seem like it will.

[reactionary]

I mean come on, asking for my DOB and salary information on cool messenger? That's just bad HR.

[CentralCali]

[mogbert]

Welcome to Korea.

[snowysunshine]