Korean Job Discussion Forums

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006

Not me, as I'm sure some of you were hoping!!

lol...

Just curious who's been fired from a Hagwon and why? Or know someone who was fired, and why....

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

The official reason: too much bingo.

The unofficial reason: my contract was close to being finished and we had too many teachers for the number of students and so I was the one to go.

that guy · Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: long gone

My first job was at a hagwon the changed teachers like they changed socks. The socks would be gone, but the smell was left for everyone else.

One older "gentleman" was hired on a Monday and fired on Thursday. He went by the name Tony because his real name, John, was the name of a teacher that pulled a runner a few years ago. It was that kind of hagwon. Why was he fired? He burned is rotund belly while cooking eggs, as happens to so many of us, and decided it would be a good idea to show his class of middle school students, as so many of us do. Apparently he lost his shirt in class, and, well, you get the picture.

Another guy, French Canadian, was let go for all together different reasons. He was young, tall, dashing and had a wave of blond hair that would make any surfer jealous. The girls loved him and so did the hagwon. It didn't matter that his accent was strong or that he couldn't write a sentence. He had the looks. It was that kind of hagwon. Well, time went on and he did his thing. His thing typically involved the young, adult uni students, fermale that is. The hagwon got wind as he told, well bragged, about his hobbies to the Korean teachers. Round and round that went.

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006

Oh ok, I was just wondering why people get fired seems like such a pretty easy job. It has it's hard parts, like lesson planning, but i mean I'm here for my accent, and white skin...fine with me.

I guess I'm just getting comfortable in the job, and I dont want to get too comfy, cause I dont feel like I'm doing enough. Make sense? I still have a lot of learning to do, and I want to be a good teacher. I just want to make sure I'm not going to get fired...I guess I'm conditioned to think like this from my previous job record back home.

The kids love me, and the owners tell me all the time so....

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

It will likely to have little or nothing to do with your teaching performance. Maybe their business practices, hiring practices (like over-hiring,) disinterest in paying severance, etc.

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006

Oh ok, so as long as I am nice, and polite I shouldnt lose my job, sweet.

that guy · Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: long gone

And keep your clothes on.

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006

I have to keep them on! That could be hard!

lol

j/k

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

At my old hogwan I was really left wondering what one would have to do to get fired. Only one Korean ever did (I was only there half a year) and her photo should be beside the word 'incompetent' in the dictionary. FTs did things like hitting kids, dressing like absolute slobs, dressing like absolute slobs on purpose (me), spending 30 minutes of a 35-minute lesson playing games, routinely throwing disruptive kids out of class (me again), teaching kids swear words, telling the kids that certain KTs couldn't speak English, missing work for alcohol-related reasons, coming in with visual reminders of fist fights or drunken mishaps (me once again), taking sick days when not sick, gong to the PC-bang when not teaching during a block, and bad-mouthing management in the middle of the staff room. To the best of my knowledge, no FT had ever been fired from that place.

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

In 2003 I was 'fired' without warning 359 days into my contract because I was a 'bad teacher'. Riiiiight. There was another foreign teacher working there at the time who saw the whole process taking place but was assured that it wouldn't happen to her. Wrong. They did it to her the next year.

This is a warning. Do not work for CHILD-U YEOMCHANG, run by PARK JU-EON (Julia)..

Consider yourselves warned.

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006

I work for a ChildU company, and the only thing I can really say about them is the books suck. My bosses are super nice, and I know a foreign teacher who worked here before without problems. I am just struggling with these books, I can zip through them so fast....Dont really know what else to do to drag class on....

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

that guy · Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: long gone

I have another one that fits the "keep your clothes on" theme.

A Scotsman came to the school and seemed quite a fellow. Well spoken, kind, eager and really keen to get into the classroom. He followed me around for a couple of days before taking on his classes. In the class he was full of energy, bouncing around the classroom like a young a colt in spring. Well his energy extended well beyond the classroom and he had something in common with the colt. He was hung. How do I know you ask. Well, he could drink and drink he did. When he drank out it came. Early, late he didn't care. Women would tremble in fear and men gaze in envy; it was his party trick. He was the only one here I met who would enter the "sexy dance" and regularly win. The school got wind and he went home. We were shocked at that.

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006