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[Novernae]

So I just heard that over and above the journals and extra classes (we tried the overtime thing, which worked at the head school until management found out and decided it was unacceptable) we will soon have to start calling students. Glad I'm getting out, but I pitty the poor suckers who come in after us!

[jacl]

The way I see it, why do anything else but teach if you're doing 6 hrs in-class/day? If you have to be at the hagwon 7 hours/day (or a ridiculous 8 hrs/day), smoke cigarettes, eat, surf the net, read or whatever. Why run around and stress yourself out when you have classes to teach. It's not a gd sweat house.

[Squid]

My last job's colleagues and I were asked if we had any suggestions to improve the course. One colleague and I agreed at a staff meeting that it'd be a good idea if the center hired a curriculum developer to integrate the four parts of the course we offered.

Our Korean supervisor cheerfully took this to management so they up and hired a curriculum developer, replacing her.

She shortly afterward produced awful reports of my colleague and I's performance and general behavior at contract renewal time, flying in the face of a year of outstanding student evaluations and results.

Result: Complete meltdown, all five foreign staff replaced and her out on her ass.

Sometimes this place can drive you crazy if you let it.

Anyone answer ads recently for the Yongin countryside position?...beware, you were carefully steered away from us as you arrived.

[jacl]

You should've never agreed on that.

[kermo]

[mindmetoo]

If he was going to move back home, he could have simply signed a new contact and do a midnight run, leaving a note in his apartment that if contracts mean shyte to the boss, they mean shyte to the workers.