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[fromtheuk]

The Principal walks into our English office where me and my co-teacher sit.

Recently, this tw!t has been contradicting himself.

Last year, he said it was ok for me to use the heater in my office because it's cold there.

He walks in a few minutes ago and starts giving my co-teacher an ear-bashing because we were using my heater.

My co-teacher reminded him he said I could use it last year, he just shouted back that was last year.

I doubt he is going to pursue me using it but will say something again if he sees me using it.

If I keep using it there is not much he can punish me with, my co-teacher says. He just may not re-sign me again.

But I'm going next year anyway. What a tw!t!

I'm not shivering to death for the fuhrers sake.

[bundangbabo]

Good on yer - and may I say before the flak starts coming your way - one of the best posters on here.

Just tell the fuhrer that you'll be gone after this contract. Keep sticking it to them mate!

[Xuanzang]

The Heat Nazis

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

Probably because no other teachers are allowed to use the heaters, Einstein.

[ChopChaeJoe]

Why do people feel the need to report on every mundane event of their lives?

i think you can say twit on this board, anyways.

[BigBuds]

[fromtheuk]

I thought I'd leave the missing letter up to you. It's a mystery.

I don't care about the other teachers. When you come here you expect a decent level of heating to survive as a human being.

If Korean teachers think it is fine to be extremely cold for no good reason, then that's their problem.

Anyway, he can't fire me for it. He agreed to it last year.

I am changing school next year. My co-teacher's small heater went missing last year. She suspects the Principal confiscated it, but because he is senile he wouldn't remember where he put it anyway.

If my heater goes missing, I will contact GEPIK (even though they never replied to my previous question about prayer in school). I'd go and see them personally.

This Principal of mine has become a rude idiot. I just hope that in the last couple of weeks of my contract I don't take as many sick days as I can, making sure there are less than 15 days left of my contract, to avoid getting fired.

[Xuanzang]

Maybe he really does have dementia. I agree with fromtheuk...you gotta do what you gotta do to be comfortable.

[ChopChaeJoe]

[fromtheuk]

Well you obviously do. Why else would you post twice on a thread you claim to have no interest in?!!! Duh!!!

I think it's interesting. I suppose the last thing a newbie would expect is they have to sit in the freezing cold when they reach dienamic Korea!

[sojourner1]

They're conservative with energy in some schools or during some periods. I noticed today how the heat and electric got turned off at 4:10 as soon as I was finished teaching. They just pull the main breaker switch every day, but usually not until 5 O'clock. It's now very freezin cold Winter so it's the cost of heat issue. So much for my plan to stay warm while using internet until I could catch my 5 O'clock bus. The halls and outside were so brutally cold today.

[fromtheuk]

Everybody, let's say the Principal sees my heater on again, raises the issue again with my co-teacher, she explains again I need it because it is cold, what would you do?

1) carry on as before

2) take the heater home as implied by the fuhrer

3) or use it and then hide it like a gutless coward.

I'm interested in your view.

[ChopChaeJoe]

[SaveTheWhales]

4) Put on a towel-cape, grab the heater and run screaming down the hallway during breaktime, plunging it through the glass window of the Fuhrer's office yelling "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!!"

but turn the heater off before you do that

[yingwenlaoshi]

I'd tell him that I'm using it because I'm not from some third-world country and I want to keep warm. If he gave me a hard time, I'd yell at him.