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jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Damn it was a nice easygoing job too, and I was only there a month. Then the boss informs me the mothers want (insist upon?) a female teacher, so he gets one and I'm finished. He tells me he might have other work for me, which apparently he has for about 15 other people, who seem to work at various places, like 5-10 hours here, 6-12 hours there per week, or something like that. Running around town, different school(s) each day? Given my current situation I'll take what I can get I suppose, but I would rather have stayed put.

Bee Positive · Joined: 27 Oct 2005

Dude,

You CAN'T let this get you down.

I know, it's easy to say.

Trust me, however, when I say that you will look back and LAUGH.

While I've never had it quite as bad (have not yet been fired for being male!), I've certainly waded through my share of Korean job listings which looked promising until I came upon the must-be-equipped-with-female-genitalia clause.

Ha! I'm LAUGHING!

And here's why:

I majored in English, did graduate studies in English, have spent half my life hanging out in libraries, can diagram sentences till the cows come home, provide etymologies for most any word you can throw at me (yes, I've done the Latin, the Greek, the French, the Anglo Saxon even), scored 760 on my GRE verbal (top 1%), and to top it all off, I've got years of experience teaching in Korea now, and can teach like nobody's business.

I've got the knowledge, I've got the passion, and I've got the presentation down, and can teach any class, anytime, anywhere, and do so perfectly well WITHOUT FEMALE GENITALIA, thank you very much. (Was going to insert a joke here but realized that it was tasteless and out of place: suffice it to say that I don't exactly dislike women, wink.)

Trust me, if you're at all decent as a teacher, you're bound to come out ahead in this game.

Just wait until your replacement, however female she may be, can't tell the difference between a noun and a verb. See how fast those demanding mothers change their fickle minds!

And NO, I do not mean to imply that ALL females are dumb, OK? Just that intelligence, competence, job-worthiness and so on are NOT sex-dependent.

I trust that any fair-minded women who happen to read this will agree with me too. Imagine how outraged you would be if you were denied a job, still worse FIRED from the job you hold now, whatever your qualifications, simply because you're not a man. Different foot, different shoe, same bee ess, if you'll pardon me for phrasing it that way.

Hang in there, Dude! When one door closes, as they say . . .

BEE POSITIVE

YoungLi · Joined: 06 Sep 2005

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

What about getting a letter of release from him and moving on? There's lots of jobs out there.

JZer · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Location: South Korea

YoungLi · Joined: 06 Sep 2005

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

Jajude...

Sorry to hear about your situation. Your boss and those mothers are simply sacks of sh*t. End of story. Letting someone go based on gender alone is peasant behavior... you had the unfortunate situation of dealing with those backwards idiots. You'd be suprised how easy it is to get let go in these hagwons based on your appearance sometimes...I got a couple of complaints from a couple of my students that I was too "middle eastern" looking to be considered American and I think my boss was almost willing to let me go on that premise.

Hope all fares better for your future gig.

canuckistan · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject:

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PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited