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12martians
Joined: 20 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject: How many times have you been fired here in Korea? |
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A. Never
B. Once
C. 2-3 times.
D. 4-5
E. 6+
F. Lost Count
Skipping out before firing counts, too.
Be honest. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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12martians
Joined: 20 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="spliff"]Never[/quote
I believe you. Your posts have 정. |
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shaunew
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Never fired but walked out on lying and cheating Koreans many times |
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Night Ranger
Joined: 17 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah I've pulled the "work for one day then quit the next" a couple of times here. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Fired once, had to sort of run/was evicted/they claimed I should sleep in the school once. I don't know if that's fired or running or what. |
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boyne11
Joined: 08 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Does 11th month firing count?  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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0 for me
but...
I know a guy who has been teaching in hagwons here ten years and says he got fired each and every time and is about to finish his first ever full year contract, and maybe it's because it's the first time he's worked in the public schools. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Atavistic wrote: |
| Fired once, had to sort of run/was evicted/they claimed I should sleep in the school once. I don't know if that's fired or running or what. |
English version please? |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Should be a poll. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| the eye wrote: |
| Atavistic wrote: |
| Fired once, had to sort of run/was evicted/they claimed I should sleep in the school once. I don't know if that's fired or running or what. |
English version please? |
I really thought I'd written about this job enough. In fact, I thought you'd posted on that thread.
First hogwon: fired. (Same place fired my replacement at 11 months.)
Second hogwon: Owner didn't pay my rent. I got evicted from my apartment with no notice whatsoever. Owner never returned calls, never showed to labor board meetings, refused to sign a letter of release and told me through semi-maybe-but-not-really-still-haven't-gotten-a-real-story New Owner that I should live in the hogwon. Nobody would sign a letter of release, yet nobody would fire me. I got a job at a public school, canceled my visa myself at the airport on my way to Japan, came back the next day with a new visa and have been working at a public school ever since.
Owner had been found--in court--to owe everybody money, Prosecutor claims she'll be punished but she hasn't been yet. A few months after I got out, while I was at public school, Owner kept calling Labor Board meetings but never showing (cause in Sparkling Korea, they can do that without any repercussions). At one of those meetings I met another woman who'd also worked at the same place after me, who hadn't been paid. She told me that I had warned her not to work there. *I* never talked to her. So in the two months between my leaving and this meeting, someone else had also gotten royally screwed.
Heard from excoworker a few months ago that the school was finally closed.
Oh yeah, and on top of owing me money, the bitch has some of my furniture.
Since my second hogwon refused to fire me, and would not let me quit, but I really, truly had no other choice but to run, I'm not sure where that falls. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: How many times have you been fired here in Korea? |
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| 12martians wrote: |
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Never.
I quit my first job here, and finished every contract since then. With the exception of that first job and my prior uni job, I've completed at least 3 years at every place I've worked. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Never.
However, I was told I would not be renewed once because the school wanted someone younger who could 'play' with the students. They also wanted someone who would work evenings, something I'd suggested and they rejected because it didn't 'fit' their schedule.
About 2 weeks later they changed their minds, but I was so offended that I refused (I had been looking for a different job before contract negotiation time came around anyway). |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| shaunew wrote: |
| Never fired but walked out on lying and cheating Koreans many times |
yep! and I will do it anytime! Ive seen co teachers take crap from bosses they are afriad! to loose their jobs! IM like this is how I roll..
if you dont like it I walk!!! I have walked a couple times and been SCREWED OVER countless times! never never trust a korean wonjung!
doesnt matter how many good words they give you. or how nice they seem trust me, they will screw you over if they can!! |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I taught two brothers for about 6 months and things were going well. One day the mother asked me if I was a Christian and I told her no. She was shocked. She phoned me the next day and said she no longer needed my services. |
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