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mytime · Joined: 15 Oct 2006

My boss is trying to tell me that 5 days vacation is actually 3 days plus 2 days weekend
This is *******, right?

Should be 5 working days, no?

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Boodleheimer · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:40 am Post subject:

mine's listed in my "work notebook" thingy they keep in the main office as 5 (7). meaning i took five days, but it was seven days away.

i don't fucking get it, either.

my co-teachers regularly refer to weekends as "vacations". i find this odd.

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

mytime · Joined: 15 Oct 2006

It says i work mon-fri
And then it says I get 5days summer and 5 days winter vacation

I never work on weekends...so she is full of ****

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ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

jinks · Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Location: Formerly: Lower North Island

Last year I worked at an academy and our 5 day vacations (winter and summer) were wrapped around the weekend. So we got Thu, Fri - the weekend - then Mon, Tue, Wed. I moaned and whined about it in summer because I wanted a 9 day break not a 7 day break, but it wasn't going to happen. apparently the parents didn't want their kids away from the books for too long. Anyway, by winter I was sweet with the idea because the part week before the vacation was a short wind-down one and the part week after the vacation was an even shorter getting back into the groove one.
To the OP, your boss is a thieving shyster, and you don't need to take it!

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

Funny you bring this up because my boss did the same thing. My "summer" vacation was actually during Chuseok week, so instead of 5 days of actual vacation, she used 2 of the Chuseok holiday days and 1 other holiday day on Tuesday. I lost 3 vacation days there, and I just found out last night I'm getting screwed again for winter vacation.
My boss said that the 3 days which were lost would be used on Tuesday during December, January and February, the day after a Monday holiday, thus we have a 4 day weekend. But last night she made winter vacation during Chrismas week, so I lose another holiday day due to her complete BS way of managing a business. She's always thinking of what's best for the hagwon and not for her employees. And to top it off, she notified me last night that our winter vacation is in 2.5 weeks. It's gonna be impossible to find a reasonably priced ticket out of the country for travelling at this point. 개년!

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

actually, if you look a little closer, you'll note that what your boss is DOING is nothing...she is merely SAYING.

So long as it abides by the contract you can't really find fault. Course, if your contract differentiates between "holidays and all national holidays" (like almost all contracts do) then your boss is dreaming and you should point that out.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

The same thing happened to me my first year in Korea.
In my contract it said I had ten days holiday. It didn't say that I had to take them when the school was on holiday, just that I have ten days vacation.
So, I assumed that I could take time whenever I wanted as I would back home. Man, I was surprised when the boss told me I had to take them during the school holidays. Luckily, they were so worried about losing me they let me take 5 days and I went to Seoul for a week even though I was the only foreign teacher there.
However, when it came to summer vacation I found that our 5 days included a weekend, even though I didn't work weekends, and there was no way around it.
The moral of the story is to make sure that your contract states that your holidays are 5 or 10 working days and do no include weekends.

ilovebdt

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Missile Command Kid · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

Take copious notes as to what your vacation days were, when you took them, and when national holidays were. I use a day planner to keep this information. Near the end of your contract, pull that out and ask them when you can take the remaining days of vacation time that you're owed, or whether they'd like to pay it out. If they refuse to do either, labour board.

It's really not worth stressing about in the middle of a contract. Wait until it's almost up. What's worse: six months of ill will or six weeks?