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[Zoobot]

Mine is the co-worker who hits on you and then decides he
doesn't like you because you don't respond in kind
and he then tries to monkey wrench your weekend plans.

[Nemo]

My fave is this kind :

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=72311

J/K of course

[jlb]

I'll answer the question seriously! I have two foreign co-workers now who are ideal. We all have our own lives outside of work that don't overlap. When we come to school, we chat and are friendly but not overly so. We share tips about living in Korea and talk about our travels on the weekend and whatever but not all the time. We all make an effort to talk to the Korean teachers as well.

It's nice to have people to talk to who speak fluent English everyday but it's also nice to not have to see them all the time outside work. 6 hours a day is enough!

[nautilus]

[Zoobot]

Most of the foreign teachers at my hagwon live in the same building, so our outside lives definitely overlap. I get along great with most of the other foreign staff, which is strange, right? I mean you would expect the two gay men on the staff to be tight, but I'm really not attracted to anyone at work, either, mercifully.

I tend to veer away from workplace romance/drama. If things go sour, where do you go? LOL... That's why I really didn't understand this guy hitting on me after he'd been here for like a week or two. It really bothered me, actually. It seems such an ill-advised move to me.

[Smurfette]

ones who pick a new victim of public gossip everyday......

[Kimchieluver]

Ones who make me laugh.

[Qinella]

My co-worker last year was cool. She was always ready to hear a funny story, and she often played pranks on me and the students. She was fun.

I came to this new place expecting that, and boy was I wrong. I got the icy cold shoulder, as well as a right tongue lashing in the hallway between classes, just for asking what she'd done the night before. Woo boy. Now, the only things we speak of are the weather and things related to the students. I'm too afraid to ask anything remotely personal.

[The Hammer]

I like 'em honest.

[Smurfette]

[mishlert]

The femme fatale type that you see in film noir.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Zoobot]

Since I've posted this, I've got a new perspective on this co-worker. I think we've gotten over the hostility, and I'm now feeling a little bit of empathy for him. He thinks he's very ugly, and I think he overcompensates for this by trying to impress others in other ways too hard (which is what repelled me from him in the first place). I love it when relations improve and don't stay stagnant and nasty.

[swetepete]

I like gyopos with dubious english skills who have successfully bull-shot their way into a native speaker position. They're great! because they make me look really good, even though I have only two teeth, one eye, and a drool cup.
For example:
Pseudogyopo--"Pete, what's 'gunpowder?'"
Pete--"It's a powder that blows up and makes guns and artillery shoot stuff. It's carbon, saltpetre, and sulphur, I think. It was invented by the Chinese about a thousand years ago, blablabla and et cetera, ad nauseum..."
Disbelieving Pseudogyopo--"But I though guns shot bullets. Not powder."


Seriously! I have but TWO TEETH, and I got the eye because I won paper-scissors-rock with my brother and he got stuck with the glass one. And yet, in that school, i was like Captain Mensa or something.
They set the bar so low, it'd trip a slug.

[migooknom]

I like the ones that bring food and share