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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

MM2, I feel like I'm waiting for a punchline that never comes. Is it your point that so relatively small a number of employees jumping ship can render so high a turnover rate in percentage term? Confused

cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

CRUISEMONKEY ENGLISH CAMP UPDATE

December:
12th - Delusional, hypochondriac, female, Canadian 'space cadet'-idiot quits (2330 hrs.). She doesn't want to teach, but wants to keep coming into the staff room for two weeks so she can arrange her affairs and book a flight. Why?... because it's warm! - her apt. is below freezing because she is too cheap to buy heating oil. She is turfed out on the morning of the 13th.

xtchr · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

Enjoying the stories immensely, long may they continue.
But I'm curious, why are you teaching camps at the moment? Isn't the school term still underway? I thought camps were only in the holidays. Please enlighten me.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:12 am Post subject:

The 'camp' runs all year. We have a grade from a different school in the district each week - they come Mon.-Fri., 9:30-4:00. In otherwords, I have a class all day, every day for five days... next week, a different class.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:14 am Post subject:

Wow, I am so glad I don't work at that camp!

I hate camps.

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

Man when I worked at IBM we had a 70% turnover rate in just 6 months :O

I had a friend that worked at a helpdesk centre where they had a 99.9% turn over rate in a year. It turned out that one year they were down too 97.9% rate and they had a big schindig to celebrate it.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

CRUISEMONKEY ENGLISH CAMP UPDATE

December:
13th (afternoon) - delusional, hypochondriac, female, Canadian 'space cadet'-idiot gets a 'reprieve' and is given until Dec. 15 to move out.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Thank goodness for that - just please don't give her my number. I know she has it somewhere (she tried to call me at 3 in the morning when she was lost in Seoul) but I'm sure she's lost it by now.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

So guess who shows up at my school at noon today? She's now in the care of a Korean woman she taught during an adults' class at the camp. She wanted to say goodbye to me and a few of my students she's stayed in contact with after their week at camp. I manage to dissuade her from disrupting an entire class that's in session so she leaves some gifts she brought along with me. She has a big jar of protein powder for me - much appreciated, actually. For one student she has a Canada flag. For another she has an old shirt that has to be washed with a little 'Canada' written across it, and a necklace with a virgin Mary pendant. For two others she has Canada playing cards. I don't bother mentioning to her that my students aren't allowed to play with won-cards. Thank *beep* she has somewhere to stay, although thankfully my place is messy enough at the moment that she'd fit right in. She's not sure if she's leaving on the 18th or 19th. Such a pathetic mess right now that even I'd take her in if I had to.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

I don't want to discourage the updates to this thread. Not at all. But is it unrealistic to think that some of the people mentioned here might see this at some point? I can't imagine it would be too difficult for anyone at that camp to work out who is who.

'Oh shhit! I'm "Pyscho-Biatch"!' Shocked

'Damn! "Delusional Canadian Space-Cadet"??? That's me!!!' Shocked

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

cruisemonkey · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:05 am Post subject:

I could care less if anyone mentioned reads this thread.