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jackson7
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: Kim Jong Il's Future Fireball
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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Fired today...what's next step? |
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So today I got called into the office to be told "I really shouldn't work there anymore." Boss said I have until March 15th. This is out of the blue, but has to do with some scandal that I had intimate knowledge about (see my earlier post about Korean girl). Anyway, don't dip your pen in company ink, especially when it's the same ink-well that your married boss signs his check out of...although the ink-well is not the wife (to milk a metaphor).
So...I'm 6 months into my second contract with them. I didn't take my flight home between contracts. Do I have room to ask for my flight back (or money for it at least), half severence, or anything along those lines. Please keep in mind I am being fired unfairly. I dated a girl that the boss had dated 6 months prior out of wedlock. Word got out (not from me...they got caught) and I'm getting canned.
Really, I'm bummed because it ruins some plans I had, but it's great because it frees me up for public and uni applications. Fairly good timing, if not great timing. Am I wrong? Is this still good uni/public applying season?
Thanks for your advice in the matter. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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If I were you, I'd try to get a job before March 15 and get all of the paperwork done at immigration by then. Get your boss to give you a release letter before.
And next time, wear a condom.
When you're gone and in the clear, please tell his wife what was going on.
I'm sorry you had this experience. In my own way, I can sympathize.
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Not looking for pity, and feel free to laugh...I have been.
So I've just started my second contract at the same hagwon. Things are great here. I get good hours, good pay, and I have a lot of friends and extra-currics in the area to keep me busy and my wallet padded.
I speak, read, and write Korean well enough that 90 percent of my friends are non-English speaking Koreans, and I thus I have also dated my fair share of non-English speaking K-girls. I've been lucky that I could be sure they weren't out for English lessons, because we never speak English together.
Anyway, I just started dating a K-girl from work (yup, idiot-move number one). Things were great, and she is hot. We met with her friends and mine quite a bit, and all my friends assured me they thought she was a stand-up girl. Convinced of it, actually. So was I.
A couple months into the relationship I got out drinking with my boss, and leave my phone at work. She's calling all night worried about me, and thus decided to go to my place and wait for me...my roommate lets her in and lets her stay...in my bed. (see where this is going by any chance?)
I get absolutely wasted with the boss, not being able to turn down the ol' *beep* Korean-style. So drunk that I don't remember needing to be put in a cab by another female Korean teacher that I work with. Apparently, I was so out of sorts that the cabbie wouldn't take me, so she walked me the 10 minutes or so to my place. As we're walking up to the door at 5 AM, my girlfriend wakes up, freaks out (yeah, it looked BAD), and proceeds to have a huge fight with me (at this point I sobered up right quick!).
I felt terrible about it, thinking we had something great going on, but we tried to work things out for a week or two.
All of a sudden I had that burning feeling. So I go to the ol' urologist, and he tells me that yup, I've got a little gift from the girlfriend. I tell her about it so she can go get checked up, and she goes on to yell at me thinking I was cheating on her (which I wasn't).
Turns out she was cheating on me! Pretty foolish of me and my friends to trust this girl, but she put on a helluva show. Even her friends were convinced that she didn't have this secret life.
It gets better...
I talk to my boss about the upcoming desk moves, and request that I don't be sat next to her again, as it has become uncomfortable working with her since we dated and broke up, which I assumed he knew about (we weren't particularly secretive about it).
His face gets all twisted up, and he starts blabbering on about how she was HIS girlfriend for a year before me, and how he is so heartbroken to hear that she has found someone new. But the guy is and was married during the whole time.
Oops, I slept with the boss' mistress of a year. My bad hehehe
Korean adventures have been crazy fun, but this one so far is the craziest! |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
If I were you, I'd try to get a job before March 15 and get all of the paperwork done at immigration by then. Get your boss to give you a release letter before.
And next time, wear a condom.
When you're gone and in the clear, please tell his wife what was going on.
I'm sorry you had this experience. In my own way, I can sympathize.
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i wouldn't bother telling the wife, she most likely already knows.
talk to your boss, and say that you will leave quickly and QUIETLY, if he gives you a LoR right away |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Keep smiling and be extra friendly until you get your LOR and if you can try and get a good reference, which you can always use against your boss later, if and when you go to the labour court.
Last edited by blade on Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:10 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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jackson7
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: Kim Jong Il's Future Fireball
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the replies. He tried to pull the, "I have to tell immigration about this and you will not be able to work in Korea." I said, "What are you going to tell them? We shared the same office girl?" He thought for less than a second and said, "Okay, I will not tell them." This guy is so full of it it's coming out of his ears. He told me that the girl was going to sue me, so I told him I'll go and talk to my family lawyer and get back to him. Later that day he said he had talked to her and she wasn't going to sue me. Riiiiiight, even though he was in meetings all day. I've started to enjoy using other's sarcastic "Wow, SPARKLING" motto these days. Keeps me remembering where I'm from and where I'll be again someday. |
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Kimchieluver
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| Not that many things surprise me nowadays, but I find myslef thinking to myself "Korea Sparkling" at least twice a day. It makes me smile at the BS crap that happens here. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| ewwww! dirty seconds.... |
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jackson7
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, knowing this girl...it's probably more like fourths or fifths 
If I get my LOR and get a new job before the March 15th deadline, can I sidestep the criminal background check, etc. BS? I've had my dose of hagwon craziness, time for PS craziness! |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| jackson7 wrote: |
| If I get my LOR and get a new job before the March 15th deadline, can I sidestep the criminal background check, etc. BS? I've had my dose of hagwon craziness, time for PS craziness! |
According to the new regs, you can only transfer your visa if you're 10 months into your contract. But from what I've read, they seem to be willing to bend that (if not ignore it entirely) in the case of transferring to public schools. It's worth a shot. |
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