Korean Job Discussion Forums

[hadeshorn]

Just thought I would unleash this onto the world and it kinda has little or no relevance to the rest of you but I did think it was job related.

A co-worker I sometimes walk to school with came into work today with her hair done differently. Something I hadnt seen before but at the same time nothing really radical.

I laughed in surprise of seeing her in a new style and now im in the dog house.

Good thing im going home soon, I am burning bridges left right and centre. Yesterday I told the head foreign teacher to piss off as she yelled at me to tell my kids to shut up.

[Corporal]

Haha. How soon are you going home?

I just started and I yesterday yelled at the head teacher for things being so disorganized around here.

[FUBAR]

We had this one 50 year old guy who came to work one day with his hair dyed bright blonde. Later on he came in with an Earing.

He asked if I liked the new hairstyle

Me: "No. I have class now"

[Butterfly]

That wasn't very sensitive hadeshorn. How do you think she feels now?

[kangnamdragon]

Korea is a good place to experiment changing one's appearance.

[Mashimaro]

Congrats on telling the head teacher to p*** off.. I'm all for disrespecting authority figures

As for laughing at the haircut... guess she probably though she 'lost face' or some crap. ridiculous I know..

[procall]

i used to work with a guy who had an unbelievable comb-over. i'd never seen anything quite like it.

[Toby]

[Squid]

I make it my duty to laugh at any kid with a mullet, does that count?

[Toby]

[captain kirk]

Yeah, Korean people don't get teasing when it comes to matters of personal appearance and 'flirting', humour related to that. Pride seems to ball them up into a tizzy of consternation and avoidance, not getting the joke as a joke. For example a male Korean teacher arrrived at work wearing a sort of 'flamenco/tango dancing shirt'. It had a kind of rumple built into it in waves that repeated. The effect is it looks like it needs ironing after having been crumpled up into a ball. Or the female Korean teacher to my left, who goes to the health club four nites a week. I asked her if she used any 'muscle building machines' there and she said sometimes. I jokingly asked if I could touch her muscles and she defiantly ejected 'No!'. In the moment of not getting the jokes there are long faces. But they seem to get the humour after awhile.