Korean Job Discussion Forums

[humanuspneumos]

I wonder what the most common things "old" teachers find newbies to be doing their first month.

My experience that the new teacher is usually treated like apple-pie (unless they're colored, not attractive, fat, or some other thing Koreans don't seem to like) until the next newbie comes. Also- if the owner is trying to calm the waters it seems that disinformation will fly, the newbie becomes the new spy, and is isolated from the situation to a certain degree simply because they are to be the next money-machine. I've rarely met new teachers asking how to teach as much as they are striving to get the social niche taken care of first.

[kangnamdragon]

drink too much and get caught up in the wrong crowds...

[FUBAR]

You need to add: End up in a relationship

[sadsac]

I have found that they want to know what things to do in the classroom. What sort of prep, how to teach this or that. The rest comes later.

[crazylemongirl]

in general just asking a lot of questions

[Crois]

Say how much they like it and then up hating it

[just because]

yeah...definantly drinking too much(but is that really a newbie mistake).
Also, mixing with too many negative people as they are the ones who are the most vocal so they get a bad impression from the get go.

Comments like
"you'll hit the wall in 3 or 6 months and you'll hate it",etc

I've been here 2.5 years and I haven't hit this imaginary wall yet.

[phaedrus]

[Crois]

Respecting what your boss says is a newbie mistake. Got to stand up for yourself more.

[phaedrus]

[Zyzyfer]

[just because]

I'm not really talking about culture shock, just the general you must hate it because I hate it too people that you meet.

[ryleeys]

As a former "newbie" (does 6 months remove this label for me), I'd say the first thing I wanted to do was beat the living sh*t out of anyone that called me "newbie."

[humanuspneumos]

Right- the term "newbie" tends to dement into- "You have no eyes or ears to see for yourself so shut-up." I guess there are two kinds of new people-those with extreme insight/life-experience to see things for what they are in a short time and those who aren't so insightful but hey- that's ok- as long as they don't pssssss on my fire.

Sadly- newbies get sucked into a battle that really isn't theirs with the old teacher "filling them in" and the director sucking up to them until later when he swings the knife around into their back.

[chinook]

wow, sounds fun

(potential newbie)