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[Julius]

[Julius]

- The way that employers don't read your resume, only glance at your photo
-The psychopathic egostistical competition for female attention among male staff members
- The lack of self-motivated students
- The prevalent view that the teacher is responsible for learning... rather than the student
- The way any and all effective punishments are disallowed
- The fact that losing your temper is viewed as amusing or shameful in Korea, rather than as a warning to take the person seriously
- The way managers and employers rarely give you credit for years of teaching experience
- The way that every last Korean always seems to find a way to think they are higher than you in their imaginary heirarchy
- The way recruiters and employers emphasize all the places and things to see in Korea, yet never grant you any time to visit them once you have signed the contract
- The fact that you have to fight to get even the bare basics of what was promised in your contract
-The fact that the toilet cleaner is the only down-to-earth person in the entire school
- The fact that so many students are in desperate, desperate need of a cuff round the ear, but the system ensures they never, ever, recieve one.
-The way students never flush the toilet after them
-The way teachers are expected to share the toilets with their own students
-The fact that there appears to be only one type of board marker in the entire country, which has a working lifespan of about 3 minutes
- The fact that parents throw their kids at hakwons rather than properly raising or spending time with them
- The way parents, TV, society and the hakwon system encourages students not to take foreigners seriously
- The fact that wages have been frozen for the past ten years
- The way that classes are never reshuffled when it would benefit the students greatly to do so
- The fact that so few eslers in Korea bother to study a TEFL before coming
- The sheer amount of noise and distractions entering the classroom from the street outside
-The way that managers insist on turning off airconditioning precisely on the hottest day of the year

[PatrickGHBusan]

[northway]

[JustinC]

[KeepingItReal]

[NQ]

[edwardcatflap]

[NQ]

[northway]

[Dodge7]

[some waygug-in]

Ha ha ha.


Too funny!


I clicked on this thread because I've been there. I understand what some of you are going through.

I used to be the biggest Korea whiner on this site. (and that's saying a lot) *~*

Whining won't get you anywhere, it actually makes things worse. What you need to do is sit down and try to find ways to make things better.
If you can't do that, then it's time to pack up and go home.

Believe me, I know. I'm not trying to diss anyone, just trying to give some
useful advice.

[Julius]

- Students that never bring their own pencil
- Students that never bring their own book
- Students that play with cellpones
- Students that take ages to answer a simple question, allowing other students attention to wander
- Managers that pander to unruly students instead of reprimanding them, allowing misbehaviour to flourish
- The fact that nobody seems to have explained fully to students why they should learn English
- The fact that nobody seems to have taught korean kids even the bare basics of good behaviour
- Students that cause endless diversions in order to get attention
- Students that don't follow in the book and never know what page we're on
- Students that answer in a slightly rude tone then claim innocence when called on it
- Students that don't take any pride in their work
- The sheer rudeness of some teenage students

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