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SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

I completed my last day of work at my hagwon this evening. I couldn't help but feel a bit misled by the fact that none of my Korean co-workers bothered to say goodbye or wish me luck as they knew that it was my last day.
Is this kind of behavior innate to Korean hagwon teachers or something? I think it was an insensitive thing to do. I'm the type of person who would give my best wishes to a co-worker who was leaving even if I wasn't there biggest fan.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Did you have good relations with them?

When I left my last place, I got a warm goodbye and a goodbye dinner from one of the co-teachers, and nothing at all, not even an acknowledgement of the parting of presence, from the other, who left early every day. She was on her way out, looked at me, and looked the other way and kept walking. I hated her. She knew it. That was probably way.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

It was my last day at work today too. Weird.

Oh wait, i re-signed. One more year of this shit.

poet13 · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:15 am Post subject:

last job.... f'-em.

this job. I cant imagine not getting all stupid drunk and lots of toasts and hugging at that last piss-up.

SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

I felt that the working relationship was intact insomuch as it can be when working with Korean teachers. I don't recall doing anything that would have caused a rift between myself and them (four Korean teachers).

One girl seemed to have gotten po'ed when I explained to her that I had way too much last minute stuff to pack at home (and I was fighting off an ear infection) to issue the tests for all the students on this last and final week for me. I figure she villified me for this among the others. But I admittedly find the majority of Korean teachers to be too aloof to be likeable. However, the director of the school was quite supportive as were my 'good' students, but the teachers were certainly chilly this evening. And like I mentioned, I would have bid adieu to to even my most disliked co-worker just because of how I am.

poet13 · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:18 am Post subject:

HEY GAWDAMMIT! how come ChopChaeJoe can get away with saying "shit", and i can't. Ok, I'll try. Here goes. Shit.
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well I'll be damned. The MOD went to bed.....

poet13 · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:20 am Post subject:

Hmm, didnt work. Guess ChopChaeJoe is some kind of special person....
Yeah, I was trying to post s........h.......i.......t. Didnt work.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Try quoting him.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

You didn't say the magic word.

fuck it, it will just be deleted, and me probably banned.

SpedEd · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Location: ROK

Constructive conversation... Boy, am I glad that I'm leaving here. Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, etc., here I come.

braunshade · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Location: Somewhere better!

Koreans have no manners. Its just the way they are!

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Maybe she had a crush on you and was pissed you never asked her out.

Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Not Korea

That's strange.

First job: I was taken out to lunch on my last day. Almost all the staff was there. Afterwards, we went to a cafe and I bought cheesecake for everyone.

Second Job: The one where I got shafted. Two K teachers invited me out for Pizza (Potato!).

Third Job: Staff dinner for exiting and new employees. Afterwards I went to the Norae-Bang with my best bud and drank far too much.

TJ · Joined: 10 Mar 2003

On my last day there were no classes to teach so I spent the day in the library. Several teachers knew I was there because they came to me during the day for help with various english language problems.

At 4.30pm, very disappointed at the lack of farewells from any of the K teachers, I walked down the corridor past the staff room. To my amazement all the staff were having a party. NO ONE HAD THOUGHT TO INVITE ME !!!

To say I was p'd off would be an understatement. As I walked away my co-teacher saw me and came running up, very embarassed.

She couldn't understand why I said "No, you have forgotten me, I'm going home".

Some of you may think I was being petty but to me their behaviour was the height of rudeness.

Incidentally, up until then I had a good relationship with all but one of my fellow K. teachers.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

On my last day of work at my last job I had little parties with the classes I liked and did nothing with the classes I didn't. I didn't even go to one class and instead made plans with my Korean friend for how we were going to *beep* over my boss if he didn't give me a LOR (which he did a few days later).

I told my FT co-workers I'd see them at the Goose the next weekend, totally ignored the helpless supervisor apart from telling her that she had better get things sorted with the boss or there'd be trouble (which there was), said nothing to the new secretary, made plans to have coffee with one KT, bid a polite goodbye to three others, made a date with the new one, and refused to bow to the boss' wife when leaving or even acknowledge her existance, as usual.

The good students were all really sorry to see me go and we took lots of photos. In my worst class I yelled out 'Good-byeeeeee' in the cheekiest voice I could waving my hands in their faces before leaving a few minutes before the bell went.

All in all it was a very fitting farewell.