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[bellum99]

Many Bosses point of view:

Some boss and his wife run a crappy little school and they are hoping to make some money and they hire a few teachers. The boss may seem paranoid but to be honest, English teachers in Korea have a bad reputation.
They make a contract based upon what they think will be the general requirements of the teachers, but in business things change sometimes and they may need to adjust some things. The teachers are well paid and they try to accomodate them, but they seem so unwilling to care even a little about their work and they are never flexible.
The teachers are always willing to run away like children when there is ever anything they don't like. They complain bitterly about everything and usually have poor attitudes. They lie about their education and qualifications and it is hard to check them in another country.
The boss has to be careful all of the time and be ready to save himself if the teacher turns out to be runner. The boss needs to watch the teacher like prison guard because the teacher can't be trusted to do even the smallest thing like a real teacher.

[jacl]

Aw. Now I feel sorry for boss. Where's my tissue.

[Homer]

Interesting post bellum.

[RACETRAITOR]

Sure, great, but if their business starts to fail, who gets all the shiat? The teacher, not the boss. When my first school was losing money, my boss cut my pay, saying "I'm the investor--I shouldn't be the one losing money." Actually, yes you should.

[numazawa]

[jacl]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

And then boss completely undermines teacher when he tries to do something about a little demon dong-chimming the teacher and calling him babo-saki. And then boss refuses to consider teacher's request for better teaching material. And then boss craps on teacher because of lies kids tell their idiot mothers. And then boss holds a series of meeting where he continually contradicts himself - more fun, more serious, more fun, more serious. And then boss and wonders why teacher develops a poor attitude and stops trying and then one day disappears.

Perhaps wongjongnim-babo should have opened a kimbap stand instead of trying to rip off parents and foreigners alike while providing overworked kids with a crap education?

Really, I have no sypathy for 90% of them and I hope the after-school elementary school programmes ruin a lot of the chain hogwans.

[JongnoGuru]

[Maserial]

[billybrobby]

awww...i can't believe people are disagreeing with this post. aren't people on this board objective? when i read in this board about a guy who gets 2 mil for 25 hours of work every week but his mean boss always yells at him even if he's only 5 minutes late, it makes my heart BLEED. so why can't we all sympathize with the poor boss too?

[Swiss James]

this is the start of bizzaro Dave's

[krats1976]

[eamo]

[bellum99]

[Homer]

I think Bellum started an interesting thread here. The employers side is not often shown on here.

I hardly think he implied that all bosses should get sympathy for their plight. However, behind all the teachers who cry and complain about their horrible bosses, there are decent employers who just get shafted by moronic teachers. That tale never gets told or is just swamped by people on here who start bashing bosses as some sort of pre-programmed response.

Heck, we all had bad (or horrible) bosses here and home right?

Why is then impossible that some bosses are decent and have to deal with teachers who possess the mental maturity of a 12 year old?

You have all seen good bosses get shafted by some complete idiot teacher in your time here.

This is what Bellum was trying to show (I think... ).