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ppcg4
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject: Just lost my job. Where should I live? |
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So my school decided that they won't give me another class starting next week, since that's when the new kids come in.
Where should I live? If you could live anywhere in Seoul, where would it be? |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| If you've been fired, then they owe you a written notice, and thirty days wages. Simply telling you that you don't have a class doesn't mean a thing. Until you receive that notice, show up for work as always. If you don't, they can turn around and say you abandoned (quit) your job and owe you nothing. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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I'm confused. They won't give you "another class"? Did you have only one to begin with, or was your continued employment dependent on you gaining one more?
Clarification? |
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ppcg4
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
I'm confused. They won't give you "another class"? Did you have only one to begin with, or was your continued employment dependent on you gaining one more?
Clarification? |
My students are graduating tomorrow, and new classes will arrive on Monday. They haven't assigned me one because my class has lost 5 or so students in 6 months.
They didn't give me anything written, and I had to ask several times why I wasn't given a textbook to make a lesson plan from.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm so pissed off and disappointed right now that I can barely see straight. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:17 pm Post subject: Re: Just lost my job. Where should I live? |
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| ppcg4 wrote: |
So my school decided that they won't give me another class starting next week, since that's when the new kids come in.
Where should I live? If you could live anywhere in Seoul, where would it be? |
Seoul Station, with the bums.
| caniff wrote: |
I'm confused. They won't give you "another class"? Did you have only one to begin with, or was your continued employment dependent on you gaining one more?
Clarification? |
yewz a englsih teecha, innit? Work it out, man, good god, or is retard your day job? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| ppcg4 wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
I'm confused. They won't give you "another class"? Did you have only one to begin with, or was your continued employment dependent on you gaining one more?
Clarification? |
My students are graduating tomorrow, and new classes will arrive on Monday. They haven't assigned me one because my class has lost 5 or so students in 6 months.
They didn't give me anything written, and I had to ask several times why I wasn't given a textbook to make a lesson plan from.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm so pissed off and disappointed right now that I can barely see straight. |
So you were only teaching one class then. Do you have a contract? Did they promise you textbooks to make lesson plans from?
This whole thing sounds kind of fishy. |
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okokok
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:59 am Post subject: Re: Just lost my job. Where should I live? |
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| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
yewz a englsih teecha, innit? Work it out, man, good god, or is retard your day job? |
There's an option I wasn't aware of. How much do these retard jobs pay? |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:03 am Post subject: Re: Just lost my job. Where should I live? |
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| okokok wrote: |
| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
yewz a englsih teecha, innit? Work it out, man, good god, or is retard your day job? |
There's an option I wasn't aware of. How much do these retard jobs pay? |
There's a village called Mokdong that will be looking for an idiot soon. Pays about 2.4 million a month plus housing! |
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Brooksmatic
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| For reals? I'm job hunting and Mokdong is a good spot. |
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Corky
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| For reals? I'm job hunting and Mokdong is a good spot. |
That depends if you've got the right stuff or not Brooks. They're looking for an idiot.
OP, try HaeBangChon (HBC). You can try worknplayglobal for apartment ads |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Corky wrote: |
| Brooksmatic wrote: |
| For reals? I'm job hunting and Mokdong is a good spot. |
That depends if you've got the right stuff or not Brooks. They're looking for an idiot. |
This thread is great! |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I hate to bring real life into this forum, but Brooks is the guy who lost his pants. So he's a bona fide idiot. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Does Brooks live in a van... down by the river?  |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Brooks lives in a thatched hut in the shadow of Gimpo airport. He survives on tubers and grubs. He showers in vodka and feeds his infant son shrimp scampi. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Just lost my job. Where should I live? |
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| ppcg4 wrote: |
| So my school decided that they won't give me another class starting next week, since that's when the new kids come in. |
Wait.. I just thought of this vis a vis my own situation.
***CONSTRUCTIVE REPLY ALERT***
You work at a Hakwon, don't you? This is the down-time for English Hakwons. In the past two months my schedule has changed no less than six times. They eliminated a 5pm section and a 2pm section, added two 2pm sections and a 5pm section, moved a 2pm section to 6pm, removed a 6pm section, and added another 2pm section. Then moved a 2pm section to 3pm. Another 2pm section starts next week.
Why?
Because the kids are all leveling up at their public schools. They can't go to their Hakwons at the same time anymore. The 6th graders graduated, they will have English teachers on staff at the middle schools so there's no point in mom and dad paying for two English teachers.
If your Hakwon is established and a well-known name, you will lose students and you will gain students. January and February are when you lose students, February and March are when you gain them.
Go to your wanjangnim and tell him you're going to be mightily bored with no classes, and you'd be more than willing to teach privates at your hakwon (which is perfectly acceptable under the terms of your contract and your visa). Tell him you will do it for your standard overtime rate and not a penny more, that should help him.
There are so many things you can do with the resources available to you besides teach your standard English classes. Since you already know the curriculum, you can help students with their homework, tutor those who are having trouble... Imagine the wonjangnim calling a parent and saying "I understand little Su-mi is doing quite well here, and we want her to succeed. For an extra 20 an hour, we can put her in a private class with the Native Speaker and she'd really excel in her <insert PELT or TOEIC or whatever> English class."
SELL YOURSELF. You're a commodity, a product. Ask for a classroom and an hour a day per week. Then get the wonjangnim to do his job and pound some pavement looking for some bodies to fill the seats. Hell, show movies! MAX English Animation is a popular series here in Korea. There are also books and comics available from Oxford Press.
I'll tell ya, if I wasn't a drunk and a troll in my spare time, I'd be working right now, I'd have a room full of adjossis analyzing the latest golf tournament, or learning to play tennis in English, or some other such crap.
Riddle me this, when it became clear that your career was on the skids, did you just let it go, or did you start CPR? Personally, in Lake Wobegon, my hometown, I could easily "work myself out of a job" - that is, get so many private tutoring sessions and such through my boss that he would need to hire another foreign teacher to take up the slack.
Get out there! Nobody is going to give you anything. |
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