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Aelric · Joined: 02 Mar 2009

Do you ever find yourself contemplating a runner after a bad day when you were fine the day before? I've been here over a year and this at work went from bad to better but now I have a new, drunk and obnoxious principal. This guy reeks of Soju, Kimchi and 12 won hookers every damn day. He falls over the the hallway. At lunch, he sticks his fingers INTO my food (as in, physically pokes them in a stirs it around.)

He just gave my an unprovoked ultimatum that I MUST stop teaching my own lessons and start reading the textbook and nothing else. I also MUST stay after school every day until he leaves, which is around 8PM and I MUST go to training courses during the actually vacation days part of the upcoming winter break. I know this guy is violating his end of the contract. I've not talked to EPIK about this yet, but the Busan MOE are pretty much laughing at me and really, I'm about done. This is a huge barrage of crap all at once and begging for change under an overpass back home is starting to sound preferable.

Either way, I'm not planning on deskwarming until 8pm tonight or any other, so perhaps I'll make a post from back home tomorrow if it's gonna come down to it like that.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

Point to your contract and threaten to contact the school board. Going over his head will put him in his place quick enough.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

Aelric · Joined: 02 Mar 2009

That's what I meant when I said the BMCOE was laughing at me, I already did make a call and while I didn't get past the first low-level bureaucrat who happened to answer the phone, I figured I'm gonna have to go there in person to get anything done. In fact, that is where I'm headed in about a half-hour. I know I'll find it eventually, but anybody know the number of the EPIK folks that would outrank the local MOE for the Busan area of the top of your heads?

P.S. do you think that I should mention the sticking fingers in my food thing to help my point or that I should stick to the directly relateable contract violation. Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing for that either, but I'm a tad worried that mentioning something like that could have personal treatment backlash of it's own if I out him as a drunken idiot in public instead of handling it privately. Not that I care about him, I wouldn't pee down his neck if his heart were on fire, but I don't want the "little" things like that to increase.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Let's look at your major complaints and address them one by one. Comments in bold.

Joe666 · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Location: Jesus it's hot down here!

Sorry to hear about your new pricipal. I think about doing a runner about 30 times a week. I will not do it unless things are just flagrantly out of control. It has no come to that, but some days, it seems close. Your situation seems to warrant a flight out.

You need to do something about the guy sticking his finger in your food. Staying untill 8 PM? You landed in hell!

RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

Just stick to contract violations. There's no way you need to stay until 8. Stick up for yourself and maybe he'll back down and leave you alone until the end of your contract.

benji · Joined: 21 Jul 2009

Next time he sticks his finger in your food, stick your *beep* in his food.

Aelric · Joined: 02 Mar 2009

This is just awful because as of last week, things were fine. Great, even. The kids like me, the english teachers like me, I teach real things that show up as improvements in both standard test and my own performance evals. I was a real teacher for the past 9 months or so. Now it's back to this crap I worked so hard to avoid because the luck of the draw sent me an adjossi principal. I even renewed under the stipulation I remain at THIS school. Oh well, I'll post tonight or tomorrow after I storm the MOE office.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject:

Aelric · Joined: 02 Mar 2009

Ok, I have a lady from the MOE coming to talk to the principal tomorrow. Hopefully he doesn't react like it's a public shaming (he will) and make my life miserable after this. Doing this on day one of his horsecrap will hopefully be interpreted as just the right amount of "don't screw with me-ism" without making myself seem like I'm the enemy. If not, well, I got a friend in Japan for work and a quick vacation in Thailand would be nice.

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

a bad day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYsA0VnLrIU

Kikomom · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:25 am Post subject:

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

Your just being bullied. People have control dramas and he is trying his out on you. It is a test for you to see if you can stand up for yourself. Bullies back down when you challenge them.