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hojucandy
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 Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:45 am Post subject: A Weird Week at the Old Hagwon |
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what a strange week its been !!!
first off i decided to resign, because i am studying gugak in seoul this year and need to live closer to where i study. that was ok - if a little unsettling.
then the korean teachers had a big moot to discuss their dwindling wages and increasing hours. they took their demand to management, who rejected them. this resulted in one of the korean teachers resigning on the spot with no notice, and another one giving two weeks' notice. (there are only 3 of them)
the today, as i was teaching a class in the afternoon i am suddenly told to gather all my things and take all the kids over to lotteria and keep my head low. it seems some "inspectors" were about to visit the hagwon - they had just been to the place next-door and had found enough infringements to revoked their business licence, and now they were about to visit my hagwon.
well i thought - this is strange, but surely i have nothing to fear. i have an E-2 and an alien card etc... but it transpired that i am not actually listed as an employee of the school for business purposes, so i had to be spirited away. why i had to take the kids with me i don't yet know. no doubt i'll find out next week.
we ate lots of chips and burgares, drank some coke, and then we were told that there would be no more classes today and we went home.
thank God its friday. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:54 am Post subject: |
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I'd be peeved about knowing that there is some fishy business going on by not listing you as an employee ... that right there is a sign. They are likely dodging taxes, circumventing other entitlements, things all of which don't help you in the least and could be taking from your rights .....
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| What is gugak and is it difficult? |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:04 am Post subject: |
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gugak is korean traditional music.
yes - its difficult. but wonderful! |
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flist
Joined: 08 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| sounds like a fun old week on the farm... any idea why they sent the kids with you? |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| More important -- who paid? |
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hojucandy
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:32 am Post subject: |
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that was the one good thing. the boss paid. me and 9 kids and a couple of korean teachers stuffed ourselves with junkfood at the boss's expense. had a real party.
i think the boss wanted it to appear that classes were over for the day so there had to be no kids there.
anyone in ansan wanna play pool tonight? i'll be in hazzi bar (opposite gojan carrefour unwinding in a couple of hours time...)
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crazylemongirl
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| that is truely bizzare. I had a weird week to. My employer signed my reference and release letters no questions asked. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| That's really weird. Being on the run with a class of kids hiding out at Lotteria on an expense account. What's next? |
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Cthulhu
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| but it transpired that i am not actually listed as an employee of the school for business purposes, so i had to be spirited away. |
I once had that happen to me as well. For visa purposes They had me listed at one branch but working at another, so on the way to work once they told me to take the afternoon off and don't come near the place. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: A Weird Week at the Old Hagwon |
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| hojucandy wrote: |
well i thought - this is strange, but surely i have nothing to fear. i have an E-2 and an alien card etc... but it transpired that i am not actually listed as an employee of the school for business purposes. |
Raises some interesting questions.
If you are not an employee for "business purposes" do you have to pay tax? If you have had tax taken out of your pay, has it gone straight into wonjongnim's pocket? hmmmmmm |
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Derrek
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| hojucandy wrote: |
that was the one good thing. the boss paid. me and 9 kids and a couple of korean teachers stuffed ourselves with junkfood at the boss's expense. had a real party.
i think the boss wanted it to appear that classes were over for the day so there had to be no kids there. that way she could explain the absence of the registered expatriate teacher (an american called karen who left korea ages ago).
anyone in ansan wanna play pool tonight? i'll be in hazzi bar (opposite gojan carrefour unwinding in a couple of hours time...) |
You know, you are putting yourself at risk by taking the kids anywhere other than your hagwon.
I've done it, and normally it wouldn't be a big deal, but with inspectors in the area, I'd just get the heck out of there if you know something is illegal! |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| the place i worked at last in 2001-2 used to take money out of my pay for medical insurance, but when i went to the doctor i had to say the name of the hagwon principal, and my medical complaints would all be recorded on the same card as all the other native speakers... we all went under the one insurance number - that of the principal... a woman! lucky we never had any "male" medical problems! |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
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Funny, I remember something like that happened way back when...my first year in Korea. The inspectors were coming from ECC headoffice and my school was a franchise. They lied about the amount of students to cut franchise fees. So a few teachers took off with their classes. Unfortunately since I was the "new guy" I had to stick around and actually teach.
Funny how business here will always try to screw whoever they have to in order to make that extra buck. |
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Guest
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Funny how business here will always try to screw whoever they have to in order to make that extra buck. |
All of what is here is a simple issue of being not an issue of how you are being screwed, rather that you are being screwed because you LET yourself be screwed. You are not being held in a job at gunpoint nor other major issues that can be solved by demanding resolution, quitting, leaving, etc.
Much of this is clear that something is fishy, not listed here, not having your own health insurance and card, not being provided privacy issues in health care, having to report you are this person working here, but not working here, etc. Knowing a facility is telling lies, falsifying work and employee records, and the like. You as an employee and human are as responsible, if not more for your own actions; you are letting yourself be screwed.
Common sense and self-worth are the issues at hand; not how the system is raping people |
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