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kentucker4 · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: Georgia

Ok, my boss set me up a cell phone plan when I first started working. I lost my first phone and he got me a new one which was nice. But the first month I had to pay $250 something because he said I had made one long distance call. BS...I used a calling card for calling home a couple of times. Now every month since has been well over $100 or 100,00 won. IOt's under his wife's name so it's very hard for me to check on it and my boss offers no help and gets upset and even referred to me as a trouble maker today halfway jokingly. A co teacher is helping me but my boss refuses to let me take his wife's information home with me so I can talk with them myself while not at the school. That part is very fishy to me. I think I am poaying his wife's bill to be honest. It's fucking bullshit. He said I talked 711 minutes last month yet I only called one person and only made short calls maybe once very other day. He tells me I can't cancel the phone contract because it's a 6 month plan and I still have three more months. Has anyone else ever had something similar happen to them?

Atavistic · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:24 am Post subject:

Is he withholding pay? If so, you might have a hard time. I flat refused to pay any sort of school bill until they showed me a copy of it.

kentucker4 · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: Georgia

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Atavistic · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:41 am Post subject:

Yeah, your boss is full of shit. My bill goes straight to my Samsung card and they still mail it to me every month.

Demand to see the bill. Say you lost a phone number or something, if you have to.

reactionary · Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Location: korreia

you may also be paying installments for your new phone(s). they usually aren't "free" here

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

OP, did you buy the phone?

And are the bills each month only directed towards phone service?

But that still doesn't make sense especially considering you paid 250,000 wom for the first mont and now over a 100,000 this month!

If what your saying is true, you're getting totally screwed!

It's unbeleivable actually that your boss would have the gaul to try this on you.

I dodn't think the stories of Korean bosses ripping off teachers could get any lower, but "ding ding" it just did.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

Why on Earth would anyone believe "It's very difficult to get the bill"? If it's so difficult, how did the cretin know how much it is?

Anyway, I'm not surprised at all by the gall of the boss. If it relates to money, then don't be shocked by the worst mismanagement and dishonesty in any hagweon.

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

kentucker4 · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: Georgia

I just asked my boss again. He told me that his wife would have to visit the office in person to get a copy of the phone records.

My co teacher also just told me that she has to visit in person to get the records of phone calls. Are they both lying to me or something? I feel like I'm in the twighlight zone.

I have my bill, but it just says 79,000 won for calling charges without any calling records. I know something is very wrong here but I don't want to alientae evryone at my work place.

Even my Korean GF says my phone bill is very odd and she told me not to trust my bosses because it is very suspicious.

Atavistic · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:57 am Post subject:

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

A tactful way to handle this would be to tell your boss you think the phone company is ripping him off, and he should refuse to pay. Of course it's not his money so he won't care, but there really isn't anything legal anyone can do to you except for disable your phone service.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Maybe you're ripping your boss off.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007