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Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

...move desks at the start of the new school year. Today I came into school to find out there's been another last-minute change in the seating arrangement. Every single year about 1/3 of the teachers have to move their desks around, generally for no apparent reason, and I thought this year I'd finally get a break. Oh well, I guess worse things could happen to start off the year.

nomad-ish · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

luckily, no one's told me to move from my main desk upstairs, although my co-teacher told me during the break that when the new term starts i must stay in the English Zone Rolling Eyes

so, maybe that's my new seating arrangement.

just as well though, yesterday i lost my best co-teacher (who sat beside me) to another office Sad

and gained one of my worst!

Mi Yum mi · Joined: 28 Jan 2008

Same sort of thing here. They moved my office...again. This will be my 4th year at this place and the 7th time they moved me.

R. S. Refugee · Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Location: Shangra La, ROK

iiicalypso · Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Location: is everything

Consider yourselves lucky... at least you still HAVE desks! I am in what is called the "International Language Department" at my HS, and they have decided to move the Japanese and Chinese teachers into the office. Unfortunately, I was told that there was not enough room for me, because of the new teachers. I was banished to my classroom (not that I am complaining).

Of course, when I stopped in to talk to the department head, I found that my desk had been replaced by... a computer printer. Real space shortage, eh? 366 days to go (damn leap year).

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

I moved 1 seat to the left.

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

At my HS there are four 'department heads' who sit at the end of four rows of desks. After almost three years I still have no idea what the departments are for, as they aren't arranged by subject. The 'heads' are always a senior teacher, though it rotates around each year. This year they have me and the other four contract teachers clumped together not far from the vice principal. I have no idea why that may be - by chance, so we can make jeong together, so we don't get in the senior teachers' way, so the VP can better keep an eye on us, etc. I'm the oldest and most experienced of the lot of them, which is kind of scary.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

I think myself and the v.p. are the only two who didn't move desks. Does this mean I didn't get a promotion? Wink