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[jajdude]

Stress at work and outside work, actually. But it's the job board so I'll talk about work at what is probably an average hagwon.

Lack of decent materials. Should I just tell the students to tell their parents to get them a book I figure is OK? I'm tired of photocopying for most classes, and then seeing the photocopies get trashed, which is where they belong though. (this hagwon has been open about 4 years and has a lot of students, but still seems to have no actual program and is quite disorganized.) The authorities (director, manager, boss with no English) say review books for a month or whatever. Some books do not work for review. Workbooks do not as they are already finished.

Being ignored by students. I guess a common problem. Sorry you cannot understand my basic English that is directly an echo of stuff you might have learned. Sorry, but this is actually an English class. Not a screw around, gab with your buddies and play with your cell phone time.

Students speaking Korean. With each other and to me. They figure I understand a bit. I should have never let on I understand anything. I am tired of hearing it all day long.

Hectic workplace. Wish I had a more relaxed place and schedule. I'm not used to going hard 7 hours a day with few breaks, and being exhausted afterwards. Part of that is the summer heat.

Just some average complaints from an average guy at an average (ie.. crappy) hagwon.

[SuperFly]

Mail servers go down on a daily basis. No ETA, there are so many little IT groups in this company and they're all independent of eachother...many do not have SLAs so when the VP asks you when his mail server is coming back up, all you can do is say that you don't have an ETA. It comes when it comes. Today Brchmal9 had hard drive errors..there are db's that are corrupt..so ECS is tying to fix the dbs.. may possible have to restore...maybe not even today.



No one cares...when the phone rings and servers are down, no one wants to answer so it usually goes to vmail.

Then theres the heat. 115 degrees yesterday.

[captain kirk]

Yeah, what a difference when there's some authority, be it manager or boss or whomever up top, who speaks English. Otherwise it's like 'my boss is Ali Abdar Hongshik who says he wants to pay me, is that right, in jade stones and kimchi?'.

When they do their workbooks get them to do it in pencil. The five or ten minutes you do the workbook get them to come up, who wants it, for help. You can erase what they've written and get them to do it again. For that you need a bigass eraser.

I'd prefer to have some nit-picking control freak management than lackadaisical dullard management. No management at all, like total anarchy, is nice too.