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Epik_Teacher



Joined: 28 Apr 2010
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:11 pm    Post subject: Another Fun Day Desk Warming................ Reply with quote
This is So much fun. One other teacher, the VP and me. No students, no other teachers, nothing. I guess EPIK changed the rules, now I get to sit from 8:30 to 3:00 for the rest of the summer. This is my 4th contract with them......AND MY LAST!
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Senior



Joined: 31 Jan 2010
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The assisstant English teacher at my school has to desk warm, and I don't. And she is Korean! So they can be illogical towards their own kind.
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NYC_Gal



Joined: 08 Dec 2009
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You're lucky that you get to leave at 3!
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salgichawa



Joined: 18 Mar 2010
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Another Fun Day Desk Warming................ Reply with quote
Epik_Teacher wrote:
This is So much fun. One other teacher, the VP and me. No students, no other teachers, nothing. I guess EPIK changed the rules, now I get to sit from 8:30 to 3:00 for the rest of the summer. This is my 4th contract with them......AND MY LAST!


Hi There,

I am impressed you made it through 4. I am leaving after 3.
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air76



Joined: 13 Nov 2007
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Senior wrote:
The assisstant English teacher at my school has to desk warm, and I don't. And she is Korean! So they can be illogical towards their own kind.


There are millions of Koreans across this nation deskwarming....at schools, offices, factories, everywhere!

Deskwarming is hardly something forced only upon English teachers....it is the policy across the board.

I honestly have no idea what half of the people at the university are doing for these 2 months. I have gone into the office now and again to use the printer and people just seem to be milling about, drinking coffee and chit-chatting. The English department assistant, who has other duties, but mainly helps out the English professors with this, that, and the other...literally won't get one day off this entire summer...she is new and doesn't have any vacation time for a year...so although all of the professors are gone, most of them out of the country...she still has to sit there for 2 months, every day, 9-5...doing??? Hmm....Cyworld anyone? I mean, surely she has some work to do, but 320 hours worth? Hardly.
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SpaceGhoster



Joined: 20 Jul 2010
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you do something productive with the time, it's going to go much faster and you'll get some sense of accomplishment from it at least.

Write a book or some music, research the trip you're taking once you vacation actually comes, work on one of your hobbies, do something. Remember that no matter what job you do next, it's not going to be nearly as easy as you have it here. I would love to find a job back home that pays $600 a week to sit at a desk and work on whatever I wish.

If you're always waiting for the next thing, you're gonna miss out on a lot of time you wish you could have back in the end.
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Epik_Teacher



Joined: 28 Apr 2010
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Another Fun Day Desk Warming................ Reply with quote
[quote="salgichawa"]
Epik_Teacher wrote:

Hi There,

I am impressed you made it through 4. I am leaving after 3.


EPIK goes thru cycles. It started in 1996 as a Korean version of the Jpanese JET program. It got worse after the 1997 crash and lots of teachers got screwed. They reformed it, and it went downhill again. The current EPIK is the 3rd or 4th incarnation of the original and it is going downhill again. You can tell where EPIK is by watching the how the contracts and rules change. More legalistic and more chicken shit about rules.

With the market crash coming this fall, I don't see them spending much for it in the future. They probably have funds allotted for the 2011 year, but I bet it gets sharply cut after that. If for no other reason than it's huge expense and so-so results.

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Epik_Teacher



Joined: 28 Apr 2010
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I guess this rant makes me realize that I REALLY, REALLY need a vacation from Korea. Lately, little things are starting to get to me and I'm ready to explode at the slightest provocation. I've been here straight since 2000 and have only left Korea 3x in the last 10 years. Maybe I'll head home for a week or two.

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Horangi Munshin



Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have to stay the full day. I could sneak out but knowing my luck I'd be caught. I can use the aircon in my room, it's not locked out by the office so it ain't so bad. Got a lot of stuff done. Start camp next week.
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jvalmer



Joined: 06 Jun 2003
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Another Fun Day Desk Warming................ Reply with quote
Epik_Teacher wrote:
With the market crash coming this fall, I don't see them spending much for it in the future. They probably have funds allotted for the 2011 year, but I bet it gets sharply cut after that. If for no other reason than it's huge expense and so-so results.


I think the education authorities will wake up and make it more like JET. Students learning english will take a back seat to making it a cultural program. Or if they were really smart they'd cut it altogether and either keep that cash, for soju, or spend it on their own teachers.
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Another Fun Day Desk Warming................ Reply with quote
jvalmer wrote:
Epik_Teacher wrote:
With the market crash coming this fall, I don't see them spending much for it in the future. They probably have funds allotted for the 2011 year, but I bet it gets sharply cut after that. If for no other reason than it's huge expense and so-so results.


I think the education authorities will wake up and make it more like JET. Students learning english will ta