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[Icewontolla]

Anyone else having problems like this? I teach 30 classes a week but on tuesday, thursday classes end at 3:00. It used to be free time (as I imagine everything I don't work should be) but lately my boss has been making me laminate for those extra two hours. Seems ModEdit because this is basically break time she's taking away. Also I've noticed that many schools let their foreign teachers leave if they don't have classes. My boss seems paranoid that I go out for a coffee or for lunch recently. Anyone else?

[swinewho]

You should ask to do the course in it, if you pass they bump your pay grade up by an extra w80,000 a month!

[GrasshopperKR]

Maybe these hours are unpaid office hours, they do exist in education, use them to prep classes, or just look busy. If you look busy you may not be asked to laminate.

[thegadfly]

...good lord! Just how much lamination is there to do?

[jrwhite82]

What does your contract say in regards to work hours, teaching hours and job responsibilities?

Your boss is required to give you at least a half hour to an hour break (depending on how many hours you work). The rest of the time you should be working. If that means teaching classes, prepping lessons, or following the directions of your supervisor, then so be it.

Welcome to the real world. Follow the advice of the other posters and "look busy" if you don't want to laminate.

If I had employees working for me that weren't being productive while they were on the clock, I would give them something to do during that time. So I can't blame your boss for giving you something to do.

[koreatimes]

I first read that as lamenting

This all depends on your work schedule that week. If you have done enough teaching and office hours, I would complain about it and refuse to do some of it.

However, if you haven't done your workload, you should do this.

[The Floating World]

You need to learn about A.I.D.S.

At as If Doing Something.

Same the world over, I'm afraid.

Welcome to the world of earnining a living if not working for yourself / own your own business etc.

[Skippy]

[Icewontolla]

Actually it's pretty insane. I mean it's been going on for months, all the teachers have to do it. The korean teachers have no break time, any time they have a free period she has them laminating. The owner originally claimed to be doing it for a presentation but that has come and gone and it's still going on. She even brought her mother in to work on it 24/7. The korean teachers all complain about it, one of them just quit recently because she said she gets no breaks. I finally put my foot down and told her I was sick of working during my free time. I can't even prepare for my classes because of this bullshit. As for my contract it only says extra work is filling out daily logs and such. I'm aware of "aids" but this IS supposed to be a part time job in a sense that once I'm done with my prep and my classes, I'm free to do my own thing. I'm working on stuff for graduate school and when I got this job the promise was that I would have lots of free time to devote to it.

Either way she has backed off since I basically said no more. Of course I now have extra classes because the other korean teacher quit...lmao.

[thegadfly]

Again...what the hell are you laminating? By now you should have stacks of flashcards/bingo cards floor to ceiling. You could have laminated every page of the most recent OED, and perhaps even a few previous editions. The lamination you are claiming to be doing -- it can't actually exist, can it? Is your boss selling hand-laminated souvenirs or something?

I understand being inundated with busy work, but having someone laminate "24/7" just seems hyperbolic. There ain't THAT much to laminate!

What. Are. You. Laminating? Tell me! I MUST know!

[jrwhite82]

LOL! This thread has the potential for a classic.

Cryptic OP.
Strange situation.
He's got us hook, line and sinker.

[alistaircandlin]

[Icewontolla]