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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject: turnover heart attack |
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| Ever seen so much turnover at your school that you thought your employer was going to have an aneurysm? It's about midway to meltdown here. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| The details might be fun to hear. Please share if there are any good stories. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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ditto. are you trying to tease us?  |
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Snowmeow
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:37 am Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| This teacher apparently has gone crazy, talking about constructing a light saber and turning to the dark side of the force. Now refers to himself as Darth |
This story has potential.
Your weekend assignment is to buy a bottle of soju and some peanuts and go calling. Take notes, please.
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like my old job. They were planning on getting a revolving door fitted.
The boss used to complain to me, "I hate this job, I want to quit!", and I was thinking, "Well, just stop being an arsehole!"
Why is it so difficult to work out? Keep your staff happy and they'll want to stay. Keep them happy and they'll make you money.
To be fair, the 'evil moron' complex is not limited to Korean bosses. Try working for most multi-national corporations |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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August:
1st - Five foreign teachers: (American female; British male; two Canadians: one male, one female; and New Zealand female) start work in the 'Land of the Morning Calm' at brand-new English Camp.
23th - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female fired.
September:
1st - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female replaced by British male #2.
October:
17th - 'Angry', British male (#1) vegitarian tenders letter of resignation (he tries, unsuccessfully, to get it back on the 18th).
28th - 'Angry', British male vegitarian fired.
31st - NZ Girlfriend of 'Angry', British vegitarian fired.
November:
1st - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' tenders letter of resignation.
2nd - British male #2 resigns/fired (for turning apartment in to biological contamination zone and lack of personal hygene/grooming... the word "putrid" applies).
8th - British male #2 pulls a 'midnight run'.
The Future-
December:
24th - Cruisemonkey leaves for vacation in Thailand & Cambodia.
30th - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' hangs herself when she gets 'paid' and comes to the realization her net income for Dec. is W2300 after proration of her salary (camp closed between Christmas and New Year) and deduction of the cost of her airfare to get to K-land (Saskatoon-Daegu).
January:
9th - Cruisemonkey returns to work to find English Camp director has been 'hospitalized' for nervous breakdown.  |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
August:
1st - Five foreign teachers: (American female; British male; two Canadians: one male, one female; and New Zealand female) start work in the 'Land of the Morning Calm' at brand-new English Camp.
23th - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female fired.
September:
1st - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female replaced by British male #2.
October:
17th - 'Angry', British male (#1) vegitarian tenders letter of resignation (he tries, unsuccessfully, to get it back on the 18th).
28th - 'Angry', British male vegitarian fired.
31st - NZ Girlfriend of 'Angry', British vegitarian fired.
November:
1st - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' tenders letter of resignation.
2nd - British male #2 resigns/fired (for turning apartment in to biological contamination zone and lack of personal hygene/grooming... the word "putrid" applies).
8th - British male #2 pulls a 'midnight run'.
The Future-
December:
24th - Cruisemonkey leaves for vacation in Thailand & Cambodia.
30th - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' hangs herself when she gets 'paid' and comes to the realization her net income for Dec. is W2300 after proration of her salary (camp closed between Christmas and New Year) and deduction of the cost of her airfare to get to K-land (Saskatoon-Daegu).
January:
9th - Cruisemonkey returns to work to find English Camp director has been 'hospitalized' for nervous breakdown. |
Wow!! 
There's a sitcom somewhere in there for sure! I want to know more -- A LOT MORE -- about... geez, every one of those people! You can't just say "Psychotic (raving loonie) American female fired" and leave it at that!! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| cruisemonkey wrote: |
August:
1st - Five foreign teachers: (American female; British male; two Canadians: one male, one female; and New Zealand female) start work in the 'Land of the Morning Calm' at brand-new English Camp.
23th - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female fired.
September:
1st - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female replaced by British male #2.
October:
17th - 'Angry', British male (#1) vegitarian tenders letter of resignation (he tries, unsuccessfully, to get it back on the 18th).
28th - 'Angry', British male vegitarian fired.
31st - NZ Girlfriend of 'Angry', British vegitarian fired.
November:
1st - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' tenders letter of resignation.
2nd - British male #2 resigns/fired (for turning apartment in to biological contamination zone and lack of personal hygene/grooming... the word "putrid" applies).
8th - British male #2 pulls a 'midnight run'.
The Future-
December:
24th - Cruisemonkey leaves for vacation in Thailand & Cambodia.
30th - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' hangs herself when she gets 'paid' and comes to the realization her net income for Dec. is W2300 after proration of her salary (camp closed between Christmas and New Year) and deduction of the cost of her airfare to get to K-land (Saskatoon-Daegu).
January:
9th - Cruisemonkey returns to work to find English Camp director has been 'hospitalized' for nervous breakdown. |
Wow!!
There's a sitcom somewhere in there for sure! I want to know more -- A LOT MORE -- about... geez, every one of those people! You can't just say "Psychotic (raving loonie) American female fired" and leave it at that!! |
You can read more about Canadian female space cadet in my entry in the freekiest wayguk contest thread.
A very succinct summary by Cruisemonkey. They had my grade 3 middle school girls the second week of camp and psychotic (raving loonie) American female was yelling and swearing at angry British male #1 in front of my confused girls and he was fingering her back. Filthy British male #2 came out to a district speech competition my girls were in, looking like a druggie showing up for a parole hearing in his uncle's borrowed, oversized, and dandruff-covered suit. And it was indeed his uncle's borrowed and oversized suit he was in. He still smelled. Canadian female space cadet was last seen rummaging through the mounds of garbage in his old flat looking for useable or edible items, according to someone else who lives in the same apartment complex. Not knowing the difference between British pounds and Canadian dollars, she thinks she can get a ticket back to Canada (where she's going to go to become an Olympic rower) for $600 because filthy British male #2 got a flight to England for 600 pounds. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Actually, Canadian female 'Space Cadet' thinks the airfare will be in the neighbourhood of CAD $400, "...because the government gets a discount."
She's also upset that she was flown from Seoul (Incheon Int.) to Daegu "...I would have taken the 'slow train' to save money..."
She's going to loose sphincter control when she finds out the airfare is 4X what she figures! The crazy part is they tried to talk her into staying one more month (making a total of six) so she wouldn't have to pay back the airfare.  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
August:
1st - Five foreign teachers: (American female; British male; two Canadians: one male, one female; and New Zealand female) start work in the 'Land of the Morning Calm' at brand-new English Camp.
23th - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female fired.
September:
1st - Psychotic (raving loonie) American female replaced by British male #2.
October:
17th - 'Angry', British male (#1) vegitarian tenders letter of resignation (he tries, unsuccessfully, to get it back on the 18th).
28th - 'Angry', British male vegitarian fired.
31st - NZ Girlfriend of 'Angry', British vegitarian fired.
November:
1st - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' tenders letter of resignation.
2nd - British male #2 resigns/fired (for turning apartment in to biological contamination zone and lack of personal hygene/grooming... the word "putrid" applies).
8th - British male #2 pulls a 'midnight run'.
The Future-
December:
24th - Cruisemonkey leaves for vacation in Thailand & Cambodia.
30th - Canadian female 'Space Cadet' hangs herself when she gets 'paid' and comes to the realization her net income for Dec. is W2300 after proration of her salary (camp closed between Christmas and New Year) and deduction of the cost of her airfare to get to K-land (Saskatoon-Daegu).
January:
9th - Cruisemonkey returns to work to find English Camp director has been 'hospitalized' for nervous breakdown. |
Actually I think November should be December in the above account. Not much happened in November from what I recall except angry British male #1 getting the police called to his flat before he got completely evicted and my grade two girls renaming filthy British male #2 babo and learning Bible camp songs from Canadian female space cadet. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| See what I said about Seoul not having a corner on the freaky way-gook market, Mr. Guru? I stand by estimate of 1 in 3 of all way-gooks not being fit to be out their mother's custodial care. (Actually, I think it could approach 1 in 2 but want to be conservative in my claims.) |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| American female was yelling and swearing at angry British male #1 in front of my confused girls and he was fingering her back. |
I'll bet that would confuse the girls. That would confuse me. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| See what I said about Seoul not having a corner on the freaky way-gook market, Mr. Guru? I stand by estimate of 1 in 3 of all way-gooks not being fit to be out of their mother's custodial care. (Actually, I think it could approach 1 in 2 but want to be conservative in my claims.) |
Yes, I see what you mean. I never meant to suggest that Seoul has a disproportionately high number of freaky types, however. I think one's more likely to run into foreign freaks in the capital simply because of the higher concentration of foreigners of all types. But then again, a single observation in Itaewon or Hongdae on Friday night isn't enough to conclude that someone is a freak. Ideally, freaks are to be observed at work and at home, in their own "freak habitat" as it were. When drunken kiwi english teachers from the provinces come to Seoul and pee over the walls of the men's room at 3 Alley and then rearrange Gunter's nose as he tries to haul them out, they're not being freaks. They're just being fun-loving assets to the expat community who deserve everything Gunter and the Korean police give them. Now, if they peed in empty Coke bottles and stored it under the sinks of their officetels -- then they'd be freak material!
Bobster theorised in that other discussion that Seoul may be less freak-friendly because of more rigourous employment standards. I'd add to that: more job competition, plus a sense of being under greater scrutiny by average Koreans, by worldly & well-travelled & English-speaking Koreans, and by one's expat peers. I can imagine that in a smaller city or town, a foreigner is "freakish" just for being foreign and being there, to a greater degree than were he/she in Seoul. So you pee in Coke bottles & store it under your officetel sink? Who cares? So you shave only the left side of your face? So what? The locals might attribute that behaviour to your foreignness, not to your freakiness as we here in oh-so-civilised Seoul would. (harr-harr!)
But then there's the theory that cities everywhere attract freaks, and huge cities like Seoul, oh, they're so vast, so full of hiding places, and so easy for the newly arrived freak to find their own freak kind and become a member of a freak tribe or freak community. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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I was working for this software company in Toronto back in 1997. The economy was cooking. Canadian taxes were high and lots of people were heading south for higher pay and lower taxes. Software companies were experiencing a crazy level of turn over. Our software company had no one quit in a full year. And it wasn't like we hired unwashed freaks. Most of our hires were University of Waterloo grads.
Anyway, the upper ups quite prided themselves on this 0% turn over. When they went to various conferences, they'd koo about their 0% turn over and people would treat them like utter geniuses.
Suddenly in my department, the documentation department, we had this HUGE turn over. In about the space of about 3 months three of us left. Our poor manager, Dave, was called on the carpet to explain why only his department was experiencing 75% turn over in one quarter... |
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