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[ryleeys]

As some of you may know, I don't have the worst hagwon in the world, but it ain't the best either.

Anyway, last week, my hagwon merged with another. Most of our original students were elementary, the new place was all middle and high school. It seemed like a good deal since both places were on the verge of bankruptcy... we get more students, they get free rent at our building. The new director is infinitely more "together" than my old director.

The problems:

1) The two directors are in a daily contest to exert influence over anyone and everyone. I'm caught in the middle as the new guy is trying to steal me for classes for his middle and high students and my director is trying to steal his teachers for elementary students (I'm the only foreigner still, by the way). So far they've been civil with each other... wonder what happens when the grace period runs out.

2) The new teachers refuse to acknowledge any of us that were already there (they outnumber at least 7-3 last I counted... but there may be more). I say hello to every teacher I see for a week and got one in return. I invited everyone out to dinner and everyone said no. I got thrown out of my office so that they could use it as a seperate copy room from the one we already had. They obviously want no part of us... and they keep rearranging the desks in my room!!!

3) The new teachers have refused to teach the middle school students that my hagwon already had... thereby seriously pissing off my old director.

4) I've now got two directors applying serious pressure to me to resign at a place that I really don't want to... all kinds of stress trying to make them think I'll resign (so I don't get boned out of my ticket and severence). The new guy actually has offered kind of what I want... teaching high school classes in history and math, just teaching them in English. But I've got too many bad feelings about this place to resign for anything less than 10mil a month.

5) Two directors doesn't mean half the stuff falling through the cracks, it means twice as much... each director assumes the bad things are the other person's fault and the good things are directly attributed to their own all wise and knowing leadership.



Honestly, that's all I can think of right now. I'm trying to lay low, but I still walk in every day and the first thing that I think is, "Oh god, what next?"

[Kalhoun]

Sounds like a very unpleasant place to be. Time to get the rat poison out and put it to some good use.

[Zyzyfer]

It baffles me why you're still there. Are you planning to follow up on that other job when you finish this contract?

[hellofaniceguy]

I guess you're into S&M?!
What's the problem? I mean...no one can use you or push you around unless you let them!?!?
If the schools merged ...same school name? New owner? I'd get my rearend on down to Immigration and find out if the school informed the "man" about the merger! The least of my worries would be with the school owner!
You need to take a stand with the new owner as you don't work for him unless you have a new contract signed by him.