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[Derrek]

Supply/demand.

Tell the boss to offer more money.

[fusionbarnone]

I was asked to participate in one of those POE organized camps. And since, I had little else going on for those next three days, I agreed as I was leaving for studies abroad anyway. Actually I'd volunteered to help out and in my mind hadn't questioned the payment as I was normally paid 70,000 per hour per one hour stint with driver and transport with restaurant dinner thrown in. I didn't enquire about the wage, duh.

There were two POE teachers working in/near the camp area from the US and one from NZ, and me. The NZ guy taught half the day ofter orientation and the next day was told he wasn't needed. Never discovered if he was paid or not.

The organizer, a slipperylooking K-middle-school teacher was in charge. Probably figured why pay for four when he could pay for three pay by making the classes bigger. And someone else to take up the slack. read pin the tail on the workhorse.

When I was driven to the site by a teacher (I thought I knew??) I discovered too late(after the last class) that unless I paid for a taxi all the way to where I lived(she the teacher couldn't drive me home as I thought she would???; as she lived in the same town too) or a Hogwan(and taxi expense), I was stuck until the end.

Caught in "check mate" with only two changes of clothes and expected to work in hot classrooms without air conditioning teaching 30 kids. Expect the unthinkable with Korean organizers regardless of how well you may think you are respected, I eventually found out.

The two others (one belonged to the POE concerned thus had an apartment 10 won taxi ride from the site so they could "bail" at 7pm. This really pissed the camp commandant as he had "hoped" to keep them working after hours(until the brats called it a day), helping the kids.

They were smart enough to out-manouver the organizer who cursed at the end at how they had f#$%^ up(he didn't get to ride them like dime store ponies) he was going to see to it their EPIK contract wasn't renewed. I thought that was funny.

Anyway, that was the longest/hardest two days/nights of my life My girlfriend who was still in Korea after I moved to China checked my account and found I hadn't been paid(??????). Once that was sorted(????) The sum total for all that hassel came to 100,000won.

I look forward to catching up with those other teachers (as I left my email adds behind) to see what "they" were paid. I will be back heh heh to sort this.

[Col.Brandon]

[JongnoGuru]