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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

The Korean woman whom I am currently sleeping with teaches English (or a reasonable, hand-drawn facsimile thereof), and has recently run afoul of a completely insane co-worker.

This, from my past life as a lowly hagwon pleb*, is not a rare occurrence. The last school I taught at had the honor of employing Miss Batshit Insane, a woman who

i) Stole a co-workers handbag.

ii) Pulled aforementioned co-workers hair (for no reason; but if she figured her handbag was free game, it's only logical that her hair should also be).

iii) Admitted to a foreign male co-worker, unsolicited, that she and her husband both fooled around on each other, then propositioned said co-worker. (Too bad she was afflicted with fugliness.)

iv) Was fired for BEING COMPLETELY INSANE, had the gall to first threaten to sue the school, then actually proceeded with things. (Case pending, last I heard.)

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I'm sure that's pretty tame compared to what tales some of you folks are packing, so let's hear 'em.


* I'm channeling my inner sense of F2-visa entitlement here.

[Young FRANKenstein]

A big head at one previous job used the suicide of one big nose as an excuse to hit on another. "Oh I am so sad. Maybe you should over here and keep me company tonight."

[ryouga013]

Except for my boss, the people at my school are stellar. The secretary doesn't speak English so it's hard to communicate with her sometimes, but we both try hard and she works hard, and the other teachers English abilities are very nice. They have more problems trying to remember or figure out a good Korean word for a word than not knowing an English word.

And none of them are insane in the slightest...

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I've worked with plenty of weird Koreans over the years, but the number of Korean teachers I've suspected of serious mental health problems pales in comparison with the foreign teachers I have.

[nicholas_chiasson]

paging freakiest waygook thread...

[garykasparov]

[crescent]

I was relatively new here and had an intense crush on a Korean woman co-worker.
She was ice cold to my subtle advances, and as time wore on, I just gave up.
Shortly after that, I got an invitation to meet for lunch. She set the time and place to be midday at the most expensive department store in Daegu.
We met and she was in her best princess outfit. Lace and frills and bows everywhere.

We decided we weren't hungry enough for a real lunch, so we'd just have some ice cream and talk.
About 10 minutes into our conversation she cut me off mid-sentence, "Why don't you sit up?!".

Pardon?
"There are people watching. Why don't you sit up when you're with me?"

I politely explained that I didn't care who was watching and changed the subject, making a mental note to find a way out of that date and never make another one.

That night, I get a phone call from her saying I made her uncomfortable on our date, and that I have to start practicing for the event of meeting her folks as she has already told them about our 'relationship'.

I put things to an abrupt halt. She wouldn't accept it. All this stuff about relationships need work and blah blah. I don't remember much because I was just thinking 'psycho'.
That's when things got interesting at work. She told all the other girls at work we were a couple and when one of them laughed at her, she threatened to sue her. For what, I don't know. It ends up that this girly feud got so intense, the two of them were called to the directors office and the psycho girl got fired.

[R-Seoul]

Now that's a story! We need more of this and less 'wah wah, my boss yelled at me because i refused to eat dinner & get drunk on his dime'

[mrsquirrel]

My first job here a woman joined the hagwon. Korean women. Looked pretty cool, nice enough a figure, interesting enough a personality.

However....

Alll she could do was make balloon animals. She spent every class making various shaped balloon animals for the kids and that was it. They kept her for about three months and eventually had to let her go.

[eamo]

I don't work with any insane teachers. Just a shower of 40-something, pompous, boorish, incompetent ajeossi's. When I think that these men are teaching the future generation of Korea.....I visibly wilt.

[nicholas_chiasson]

if she was a native speaker they'd have kept her.

[Stormy]

[mrsquirrel]

[Stormy]

[blaseblasphemener]

I wonder if her next job was at a balloon-animal-making hagwon? I'm sure there must be at least one in Korea.