Korean Job Discussion Forums

[sadguy]

two of my co-teachers are fighting and it kind of makes me happy inside. it makes me happy because i've gotten into arguments with these two particular teachers before and the arguments i had with them made me second guess my own sanity, but it's obvious that they are the crazy ones.

now they are both talking to me in private, giving me juicy gossip, trying to make the other look bad.

[Zackback]

Keep specific notes of al the details and be ready to use it later if need be.

[Kaypea]

It's awesome that they're dragging you into it. Everybody at my school is so darn nice, there's no drama.

[curlygirl]

Well it's like world war 3 in the English teachers' room this week. Thankfully I'm not a part of it - yet.

Situational Rundown:

Ex-English teacher, in her 50s and now teaching music this year insists on keeping her place in the English teachers' room but wants to call the shots (no loud talking in English, no interrupting her quiet time etc).

This year's Korean English teacher is in her 30s, speaks great English and doesn't allow herself to be pushed around.

The 50 year old has taken exception to the younger teacher for no discernable reason and is calling her evil, a bad mother etc ad infinitum. She's actually put one of those portable partitions between their two desks.

Two weeks ago apparently I was the devil incarnate and not a teacher according to the 50 year old. I'd put this behaviour down to menopause but the other NET assures me that she flys off the handle at different people every few weeks. Where does this attitude come from? After more than 4 years working in Korea I have never seen the like of this woman.

[cj1976]

I'm going to go ahead and risk the backlash by saying that in my experience, every time a group of women spend time together, this kind of thing happens a lot. The bitching, backstabbing and gossipping all leadto tension and factions being formed. Men tend to just be more direct and less passive-aggressive.

[happiness]

[Summer Wine]

[CtotheB]

:facepalm:

[MitchMartin]

I feel really bad for NT's who think that getting into fights with their co-teachers is their fault...

After all, we get all this training to come and TEACH, but we don't get any people skills dealing with Koreans. How are we supposed to know the problems a Korean in her 30s is facing. I mean sure, NOW I know that any single Korean girl batting 30 is afraid of dying an old maid... but when I first got here, who knew?

Just always remember...

IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT!!

[Squire]

I'd like to see my own co teacher get into a fight with another Korean teacher. The spineless cow wouldn't dare go up against someone on an even footing. Even better, send her over to the UK to spend every day working with a humourless, unreasonable control freak with a superiority complex toward foreigners. She wouldn't last two minutes in my world

[caniff]

"When elephants fight, the trees and grass suffer."

[sadguy]

[Squire]

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

These Korean women do it to themselves. I have no sympathy for them. They think they are all that and a bag of chips when, in actuality, most of them are plain janes. But here, because of the gender imbalance, they get that princessy feeling. And 30 years old is the death knell here if you aren't married. For Koreans, their lives are pretty much over my 30. After that, it is pay exorbitant money for your kids education, work yourself to death each day everyday, provide for your parents and then, finally, die. When they hit 30, they are desperate and know that their lives in Korea are screwed.

[barbaricyip]

Just my two cents but the most passive-aggressive people I've met in Korea have been men. They never forget the day they didn't get their way and are shameless in the length of a grudge.