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[some waygug-in]

I've been lucky here in Korea so far, but I've had some real winners back in Canada.

This one guy used to walk around the apartment naked, he was 6 foot 6 inches tall and about 280 pounds - not a pretty sight.
He woke me up at midnight (I had to start work at 6am) claiming that I had used his bar of soap. Well, yes I had........... the shower was being repaired and we had to wash in the sink for a few days.


Had a British Guy in Mexico who couldn't seem to hold a job, pay his bills, or go a single day without starting a fight with someone. I ended up paying his share of the rent, and for a bunch of his phone calls. The plus was that the guy was so ridiculous that I couldn't stop laughing at the crazy situations he got himself into.
If he wasn't busy fighting with a director of the previous language school he had just left, he was fighting with the new one, or the landlord, or trying to get the girl upstairs into the sack instead of giving her the rent.

[TheUrbanMyth]

My method of dealing with this problem is simple. I always refuse shared housing and ask for single. Some directors will do this, other won't. In the former situation, we then talk about students, texts, class sizes, pay, schedules.... In the latter situation I stand up, shake their hand and say "Well, I hope you find a foreign teacher." Then I leave.

[tokki]

Um, here is my method. The first question I ask during an interview, is about accomodations. If it is shared, I hang up. Also, when Im promised singla ccomodations, I remind them of my visa status and say that if I ever get a roomate, I will quit that same day, without notice, and walk. I would never, ever live with a roomate.