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mysteriousdeltarays
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: Food Pyramid Bldg. 5F, 77 Sunset Strip, Alphaville
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That helped a lot.
What nonsense. |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
| Are you sure you get OT pay for extra classes worked when a colleague goes on vacation? I have been told that you must work extra hours, but don't receive extra pay. |
When a colleague goes on vacation or is sick you may get OT pay for the extra classes. If those extra classes fall into your normal eight-hour schedule you do not receive extra pay but your booking rate would be boosted slightly.
If the extra classes are outside of your normally scheduled eight-hour shift (ie working 4 extra hours in addition to your 8 hours) you'd receive extra pay at the rate of 7.500 won per 30 minutes. This rate is based on time and not on the number of lessons you have. So if you are required to sub for 4 additional hours and you have only a few lessons during that time you'd be paid for the entire 4 hours at the rate of 7,500 won per half hour. These lessons however do not count towards your booking rate as you are paid a flat rate based on time not on how busy you are.
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks.  |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: |
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No problem.
Any other questions, just ask and I'll answer what I can.
Cheers. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Ugh....avoid.
I had a similar gig at Direct English.
If the student cancels they keep ALL the money;meaning,they keep the tuition fee and don't pay you anything.
Similarly,no paid vacation.
The booking system is totally arbitrary.The students don't have much of a say in it.
And white lab coats..????Thats just retarded. |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Similar gig...but not the same.
Direct English generally uses a "paid per lesson" pay system with a minimum monthly pay of about 1.8 million (that means having at least 211 25-minute lessons month before receiving extra pay).
EC pays a basic montly salary of 2.0 million and the rest is a bonus; similar to Direct English in that respect. However, with EC you'd have to only work at least 192 25-minute lessons a month in order to receive a bonus (extra pay).
There's also the added bonus of not having to work Saturdays if you don't want to and if you do, you get paid a flat rate for each Saturday.
Less busy, more pay either way.
Unless of course something has changed with the way DE pays their teachers.
No paid vacation is true.
Lab coats, that's been covered in other threads. You like or you hate 'em. It's a uniform. Many people who work at Korean companies must wear a uniform.
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| prairieboy wrote: |
However, with EC you'd have to only work at least 192 25-minute lessons a month in order to receive a bonus (extra pay).
No paid vacation is true.
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Sign me up.
Not. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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DE keep the money and the cancelled class doesn't go towards getting to that threshold for making more.If you work in ,say,Yeouido,students will be cancelling right,left and centre.
Vot a jip.
This will not be told to you.Added to that they will quite happily bs you about the split shift thing.I was there 6 months on split shifts with no possibility of it changing.
They go back to the foreigner bin and get another puppy. |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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You worked at DE, right?
The thread is about English Channel, different company. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I know.Just talking about potentially similar set-ups and practises. |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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No problem. 
Any other questions about EC then ask away, I'll do my best to answer. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: |
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Anyways,what do you do there?
Why are you plugging them? |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:08 am Post subject: |
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I work at EC and like it. I have worked here for 2 years and will be starting a third. Not everyone has a good experience and there is alot of misinformation out there as well as second and third hand stories that are out of date.
Alot of changes have happened since I started; some for better, some for worse. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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I won't be working at EC.
I interviewed with EC a few weeks ago. The interviewer kept asking ME questions about what I knew about Dave's ESL and something called "Pagoda." I played dumb (easy for me- I get lots of practice  ).
I thought the questions were odd. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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No one cares about this site.Why would they? |
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