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giancaldo
Joined: 10 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:03 am Post subject: How easy is it to quit |
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| I've been thinking about getting a job in Korea. I've heard many stories about people hating their place of work and of many who've pulled a midnight run. The question is - How easy is it to just quit? If I'm miserable in the place is not possible to give a months notice, get a letter signed and stamped and go off on my merry way to another, more pleasant, school? Would the director give you any problems? From what I've read on these boards it seems like that some have no real choice but to pull a midnight run. Are immigration that harsh!! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| It's very easy to quit. It's very difficult to quit and get another job in Korea. |
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Lizara
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| It's going to depend on your director. I've heard stories of people who quit with no problems, and stories of people who tried and were threatened, or cheated out of a lot of money, or otherwise unpleasantly treated. There's really no universal answer to your question. |
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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:57 am Post subject: |
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It's very easy to do it. I did it twice in 2002. One midnight run after four months and then I came back a month later (after a nice vacation in Thailand) and got another job and E2. I then left again after five months.
So my advice is to choice carefully in the beginning so you don't have to do it but take no shite and be prepared to leave if you are not happy.
DON'T LISTEN TO THE SCARE TACTICS FROM ............... |
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Homer
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| It's very easy to quit. It's very difficult to quit and get another job in Korea. |
I would amend this to:
It's very easy to quit. It's very easy to quit and get another job in Korea if you quit for the right reasons and did it the right way. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:23 am Post subject: |
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If you want to quit and then work in Korea before the term of your visa expires, you will need to get your boss to release you (i.e. give you permission) so that your visa can be cancelled and you can get another job.
Whether this is easy or not depends entirely on the whims of your boss and/or your ability to manipulate him.
If you don't care about having the legal right to work in Korea again for the rest of the year, quitting is not so difficult at all. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
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| It's very easy to quit. It's very difficult to quit and get another job in Korea. |
I would amend this to:
It's very easy to quit. It's very easy to quit and get another job in Korea if you quit for the right reasons and did it the right way. |
I would amend to this yet further:
It's very easy to quit. It's very easy to quit and get another job in Korea if you quit for the right reasons and extort a letter of release out of wongjongnim-babo by getting together with a bilingual k-friend and calling parents offering to give them your exact impression of the crap hogwan where they're wasting their money. |
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Optional Toaster
Joined: 08 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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I ended up quitting after 10 months. Everyone kept being pushed harder and harder and any concerns about the situation were largely ignored. I gave my notice (4 weeks) and they had no problem with it. Despite hypertension with regular hospital visits and an average bp of 180/110 after 13 classes a day I still couldn't get a release letter (not that I was in any condition to start teaching again after 10 months without a day of vacation). My boss was unreasonable in some ways and reasonable in others. I think you never really know until something happens.
Just an added note, I found that where I worked everything that could be blamed on someone else was and the higher ups didn't look at themselves in a mirror very often.
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Optional Toaster wrote: |
I ended up quitting after 10 months. Everyone kept being pushed harder and harder and any concerns about the situation were largely ignored. I gave my notice (4 weeks) and they had no problem with it. Despite hypertension with regular hospital visits and an average bp of 180/110 after 13 classes I still couldn't get a release letter (not that I was in any condition to start teaching again after 10 months without a day of vacation). My boss was unreasonable in some ways and reasonable in others. I think you never really know until something happens.
Just an added note, I found that where I worked everything that could be blamed on someone else was and the higher ups didn't look at themselves in a mirror very often. |
The fact that the majority of hogwan owners seem unwilling to give a simple LOR to an employee who serves notice is why I have no sympathy for the majority of them when teachers pull runners instead of giving 30 days' notice. |
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