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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| matthews_world wrote: |
| They must have been total backpackers as their luggage would have been forwarded on. |
When you check in you tell the airline not to check the luggage through. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:31 am Post subject: |
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The bathroom, only a toilet, no sink, but lots of spiderwebs. |
Was it a private indoor toilet or were you sharing an outdoor toilet with everyone else in the building? Those outdoor toilets used to be pretty common.
I was supposed to work in Busan once but when I saw the apartment which looked a bit grungy and had a communal outdoor toilet, I said, "No way!"
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:13 am Post subject: Re: Up and leave after only a few days? |
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Why go through all that time, money and effort and then leave so suddenly? |
Because when you're 20-something you are easily disillusioned.
Nowadays though I'm far more likely to stick with an adverse situation and try to gradually turn it to my advantage. |
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korea.teacher
Joined: 04 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
| korea.teacher wrote: |
The bathroom, only a toilet, no sink, but lots of spiderwebs. |
Was it a private indoor toilet or were you sharing an outdoor toilet with everyone else in the building? Those outdoor toilets used to be pretty common.
I was supposed to work in Busan once but when I saw the apartment which looked a bit grungy and had a communal outdoor toilet, I said, "No way!"
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I was curious and found a thread on my old hagwon, CAIS.
Apparently, they're still at it.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=172754
Given the craziness some of us have experienced with hagwons, truly corrupt owners turning contracts upside down from day one, in addition to adjusting to a country with a spiraling mental health crisis, it's not so difficult to imagine a normal person with options having a quick change of heart. On a good day, Dave's Korea Job Forum often reads like a bad soap opera. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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One place where I worked has gone down the toilet since I was there. I've heard several stories from others about people fleeing during the training session or within the first week of the job. It's amusing because it used to be a solid place to work, and now they've got people fleeing the training period  |
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Plume D'ella Plumeria
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Location: The Lost Horizon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| korea.teacher wrote: |
| young_clinton wrote: |
| Troglodyte wrote: |
| korea.teacher wrote: |
The bathroom, only a toilet, no sink, but lots of spiderwebs. |
Was it a private indoor toilet or were you sharing an outdoor toilet with everyone else in the building? Those outdoor toilets used to be pretty common.
I was supposed to work in Busan once but when I saw the apartment which looked a bit grungy and had a communal outdoor toilet, I said, "No way!"
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There are limits |
I was curious and found a thread on my old hagwon, CAIS.
Apparently, they're still at it.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=172754
Given the craziness some of us have experienced with hagwons, truly corrupt owners turning contracts upside down from day one, in addition to adjusting to a country with a spiraling mental health crisis, it's not so difficult to imagine a normal person with options having a quick change of heart. On a good day, Dave's Korea Job Forum often reads like a bad soap opera. |
Looks like I dodged a bullet ... something sounded creepily familiar about your description of your first hell hagwon. I followed your links and others and sure enough, they led me to ...
Super ETS or whatever it was they were calling themselves at the time - along with that demon from hell, Eddie (Joe or Jo, who knows?) Those rascals offered me a job years and years ago. Things mercifully didn't work out and it was only after that fact, that I saw the damning reviews. It seems that I was spared some serious trauma. Too bad others weren't.
I went on to suffer hagwon abuse of a different nature elsewhere but nothing as bad as what CAIS sounds like it was. Hopefully, that sewer pit has been shut down. |
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tideout
Joined: 12 Dec 2010
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I've met a few older guys here who are now married with kids who, in retrospect, wish they'd turned around and gotten back on the plane.  |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| tideout wrote: |
| I've met a few older guys here who are now married with kids who, in retrospect, wish they'd turned around and gotten back on the plane. |
No need to exclude the women on this. I know a few women who likewise have made poor matrimonial choices in Korea and wish they hadn't.
Ironic that these individuals might have avoided marrying that wrong person if only they'd had the good fortune to get stuck with a bad school that caused them to run.
Of course, in the end, they might have made equally poor choices at home. |
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tideout
Joined: 12 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| ontheway wrote: |
| tideout wrote: |
| I've met a few older guys here who are now married with kids who, in retrospect, wish they'd turned around and gotten back on the plane. |
No need to exclude the women on this. I know a few women who likewise have made poor matrimonial choices in Korea and wish they hadn't.
Ironic that these individuals might have avoided marrying that wrong person if only they'd had the good fortune to get stuck with a bad school that caused them to run.
Of course, in the end, they might have made equally poor choices at home. |
Finally, a silver lining has been added to the cloud of the crappy school! Well done! |
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