Korean Job Discussion Forums

[tintinus]

Have just started a new job and my co-worker keeps threatening to get me fired. She is doing some really dubious things and when I mention them to her she keep threatening to go to the boss, suggesting that he will fire me.

She was waiting for me by the crossing 'by chance' and said hello how are you. And after having her mess with my head all day I really didn't want to talk to her. Some of my students had quit, some because of their treatement by the school or of probems already, but some were clearly unhappy with some of the ethics of the school. I said I didn't want to talk to her but she said she wanted to talk to me about something. I ended up shouting at her because she flirts with my male students and asks them to give up to her or help her find a boyfriend or whatever, sometimes she asks them to help her find out information about me, which she can use against me. It is ruining my classes. They have come into class really tired and with their heads really messed up.

Some of the students have left and the others seem really miserable. She said that was a serious acusation ' and you know what, I'm going to take this up with Sean, because that is a really serious accuation.' I asked her if she could just act professionally but she didn't seem to know what that meant.

It was pretty horrible and has left me really het up. I don't really want a disciplinary because of a silly little person.

[Hokie21]

Sounds like you work with a crazy person. Better go to your boss about it before she does or else you'll just look like you're lying out of your backside to cover yourself.

[Troglodyte]

I agree. Go to the boss to complain. Key point though is not to be dramatic about it. Then YOU look like the crazy person.

If the boss won't deal with it, or if your co-worker DOES convince him to fire you, then so what? You find another job. Personally, if a co-worker was seriously bothering me and the boss didn't want to deal with it then I'd probably quit.

It sounds like you're working at a hogwon. Most hogwons jobs are only a step above working at a Burger King or a call center. Would you stick around at one of THOSE jobs if someone was giving you grief?

[Reset]

reset

[No_hite_pls]

[warmachinenkorea]

[Ibsen]

[Weigookin74]

[Hokie21]

Hijacking........

Regardless of if you work at a PS or in a hagwon you're still making jack squat lol.

[No_hite_pls]

[Reset]

del

[soomin]

I agree with talking to the principle or owner... if you can get some of the other coworkers on your side, then you'll really have a better shot at getting some action. That said, I've worked with incompetent people, lazy people, liars, and perverts and none of them ever got fired, no matter who complained... might want to look for another job....

[Troglodyte]

[duke of new york]

It seems like I hear more stories of crazy coworkers from public schools, not hagwons. Public school teachers are the ones who have to deal with co-teachers, after all. When I hear about problems with hagwons, it is always the unscrupulous management, not the coworkers.

What I'm saying is that if you hadn't mentioned that many of your students have dropped out, I would have said that it sounds like you work at a public school.

By the way, just out of curiousity, is English your first language?

[YTMND]