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[chaz47]

I really think that tomorrow I may give my notice to my manager. I have my own apartment but I don't have another job lined up yet. Honestly... I really don't care though... I couldn't deal with the manager's personality on a regular basis.

If her criticisims had/have any grounds in reality then I would not feel this way. It's possible that I am just so self-absorbed and arrogant that I can't see my own faults... oddly enough no one has ever told me such a thing... but I guess it may be possible.

Young Korean female manager plus corporate hagwon equals... well... very bad... let's just leave it at that.

So... yeah... how hard is it to get to Japan and then come back on a tourist visa? Pretty easy I suspect? Please someone give a quick reply so I don't step in it when I give my 30 days notice tomorrow.

[Horangi Munshin]

Wow!!
How long have you been in this job? Didn't you quit a public school job recently? I don't know how immigration would see it. Can you get a letter of release?

[alabamaman]

[chaz47]

I did just leave a public school job. I started my contract early to do a start-up hagwon a favor and now that things are in full swing I realize that this is not the place I want to spend a year.

I will give my 30 days notice per my contract and reimburse them for the expense of my visa run.

I am curious though, that after I leave the job... since I have my own apartment with a lot of key money setting on it... can I make a short trip to Japan to get a tourist visa while searching for jobs here and continue living in my apartment.

I wish they would just fire me. I will tell them I want to leave as soon as possible and don't mind any loss of wages, etc.

It's that bad... I don't know how this place is possible. The boondoggle and befuddlement only depletes me every time I walk through the doors.

Today I was penalized for going to the bank with a member of the Korean staff according to the manager's/director's wishes. Apparently it was too inconvenient for them to make deposits at a branch of the bank that I already have an account at. I had to spend half of my lunch/prep time creating a bank account for their convenience.

As a result I was penalized for not being able to sufficiently prepare one of my three lessons today. Wow. I told her all this.... her only response was that the student's families pay a lot of money for these lessons.

I felt like saying, "Listen... you idiot... I didn't need the f*cking account. You made me go and get it. Because of your... I teach 9 hours a day and grade papers at night, I plan lessons over breakfast... "

anyway...

Note to all: avoid start-up corporate hagwons...

...

Should I try to get fired? She already threatened me... she said that she would give me one last chance...

wow...

hahaha...

[Horangi Munshin]

It sounds like a place I used to work at. Did what they asked then got bitched at for doing it. I stuck it out, mainly because I'd had bad luck with two hagwons before that. Incomplete contracts don't look too good on the resume.

That Efllaw site is good.

[huffdaddy]

[J.B. Clamence]

If you give 30 days notice, then once your 30 days is up and the job is finished, you need to go to immigration with your letter of release (preferably with your boss, too) to terminate the visa before you leave the country. If you don't terminate the visa, you will not get another visa until this current visa runs out at the end of your year.

Once the visa is terminated you can stay in the country for 14 days. If that's enough time for you to find a new job, then you don't need to go to Japan to get a tourist visa. Just use the 14 days. However, after you find a new job, you will need to go to Japan (or any other country) to pick up your new visa for your next job.

[georgiadawg]

Just wondering how things have progressed... did you give notice? How did they take the news? It seems that more and more these days, YES Youngdo truly doesn't care how they treat their teachers. And, it appears that attitude is pervading more and more of their campuses. This boggles my mind because I've heard they are going through some recruiting strains recently (as they tried to cut back on vacation this year, curriculum problems / changes, reputation issues, etc).

Your experience quoted here is just the tip of the iceberg... "It's that bad... I don't know how this place is possible. The boondoggle and befuddlement only depletes me every time I walk through the doors.

Today I was penalized for going to the bank with a member of the Korean staff according to the manager's/director's wishes. Apparently it was too inconvenient for them to make deposits at a branch of the bank that I already have an account at. I had to spend half of my lunch/prep time creating a bank account for their convenience.

As a result I was penalized for not being able to sufficiently prepare one of my three lessons today. Wow. I told her all this.... her only response was that the student's families pay a lot of money for these lessons."


Frankly, can't wait to finish my time in this nightmare and get the heck out.

Anyways, I'm interested to hear if you are cuting it short or are going to try and stick it out... please give us an update.

[Mashimaro]

A new business combined with Korean organizational skills ( )
is a nightmare. With so much money freshly outlayed the bosses are
even more hyper sensitive to the odd parent complaint, fearing it could send there new baby crashing down. They change the rules every other day, put too much pressure on the foreign teacher, blah, blah.. been there done that unfortunately

[chaz47]