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LL Moonmanhead
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Location: yo momma
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I got paid no problem. |
mindmetoo, where did you find that ladyboy? |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
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| I've always said I don't have the money and then they've bought the ticket. It's a minor inconvenience to be assigned your flight time and date, but an acceptable one compared to chasing a director for your reimbursement. To me, a question of the lesser of two evils. |
Never had a problem getting reimbursed once I'm on the ground and working. It's the return fare home I've been cheated out of.
Somone already mentioned it, and it's the best advice : simply tell them you can't afford the price of a ticket out of the country, since you've been sending everything extra back to pay off debts. They will cough up,
By law, your Korean employer is responsible to see that you are able to leave and not be a burden on the Korean legal or economic system.
(The time I got cheated, I let myself be. The guy was such an asshole it was worth $600 bucks to be shut of him. Not just me who thought so - he kept his desk right smack in the teacher's room so he could watch us between classes, and I later learned the times I saw him nodding off at it was because the Korean teachers were putting some kind of drugs into the water bottle kept in the fridge. Imagine what a jerk a boss would have to be for his employees to resort to drugging him ... This is a true story.) |
hahaha...that's funny!!!!! |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| vox wrote: |
| I've always said I don't have the money and then they've bought the ticket. It's a minor inconvenience to be assigned your flight time and date, but an acceptable one compared to chasing a director for your reimbursement. To me, a question of the lesser of two evils. |
But you know, you could arrnage the flight yourself. That's what I did for my flight home on March 3rd. I booked it myself, but the girl I work with let the school arrange and pay for her flight home. So, she has been having to ask them for her flight times. If you are already here when you get hired by a new school, you can speak to a travel agent and arrange the ticket to come here and give the school the info. Then you can avoid Korean Air.  Before when a school hired me while I was in the states, they would always get Korean freaking Air and get an early morning flight. My Mom and Dad live 2 hours away from the airport, so we'd have to get going at 4AM. That sucks!!! |
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Dawn
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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I went the reimbursement route when I took my current job and had no problem. That said, I talked to several former teachers before signing on and was pretty sure that the director was trustworthy.
Even under less certain circumstances, though, I'd be inclined to pay my own way. Among other things, it demonstrates a certain amount of financial security and subtly communicates to your future employer that you're not a wage slave utterly dependent on his/her mercy. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| Dawn wrote: |
| Among other things, it demonstrates a certain amount of financial security and subtly communicates to your future employer that you're not a wage slave utterly dependent on his/her mercy. |
Actually they like to think you are dependent upon them, and there's not a lot of advantage to be had by letting them think otherwise until you have shown your teaching skills and other sorts of value to them. E.g., it costs them nothing if you arrive with $50 dollars in your pocket, eat nothing but ramen and work for 2 weeks, ask for an advance of have of what you have earned so far to get you through the rest of the month.
Later, if they want you to negotiate for a 2nd year contract, keep in mind that they pay a recruiter half of one of your dearly-given months of labor just to introduce you to someone who might not work out so well as you have ... |
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