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[garykasparov]

This poll is for statistical purposes. Feel free to add helpul advice for new teachers. I would have added more but only 9 questions were allowed.

[Atavistic]

My employer didn't pay me on time and then didn't pay my rent so I was evicted from my apartment. I was then told that if I didn't show up to work (where I was still owed over 2.3 million won) that I would be fired.

Still don't have that money.

[garykasparov]

I hope you get your money back and I'm sorry to hear about that. If you went to the labor board, did they help you?

[Atavistic]

[CentralCali]

My former employer:

1. Pocketed money for tax and pension.
2. Refused to pay severance until it was quite clear the Labor Board was going to rule against her.
3. Refused to pay the other foreign teacher his earned wages for the 12th month of his contract "Because you [the Candadian teacher] must pay for the substitute teacher's wages until we can hire a permanent teacher to replace you."
4. Kept back about 100,000 won from each of us when she finally did pay the rest because it was "for unemployment insurance."

There is a longish list of the other stunts she pulled.

That cow has no knowledge whatsoever of how to run any business. The odd thing about it, though, is her husband's an ISO certifier for businesses. It's not like she has to go to far to get some expert advice.

On the bright side, she did fire the manager "because he could not expertly handle the foreign teachers." In other words, she canned him when she realized she was losing, even though he wasn't the culprit. She was.

My advice to new teachers: don't work for hagweons. Either get a job with the public schools or work in another country. Yes, I know there are some good hagweons here. There are just far too many bad ones. Quit taking job at hagweons and just maybe the good ones will realize that their associations aren't helping them by enabling the bad ones.

[hubba bubba]

Week 1: Students are complaining. You should make your classes fun. Play a lot of games. Sing songs, don't make classes hard,it's OK, I will not ire you.

Week 2: Parents are complaining. You are playing too many games. You should have a more serious class, or I will have to fire you.

Repeat 26 times.

[mindmetoo]

Nothing other than

a) leaving things to the last minute, like shift changes/schedule changes
b) no clue about immigration issues

[Roch]

All of the above have happened to me thus far. An Ewha school tried a home invasion deal on me back in early May, 2002 and it took the U.S. Embassy and Yongsan-gu police to sort it out.

Sparkling!!

[thiophene]

[Atavistic]

[yawarakaijin]

[spliff]

What does "biggets" mean?

[garykasparov]

[faster]

[trubadour]

i voted for not paying on time, but not paying health insurance was another thing they didn't do