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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: Resignation info needed.... |
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Just decided not to recontract with my public school with only about three weeks remaining in my contract. I had previously told them I intended to recontract but because of an increasingly impossible situation with my co-teacher recently, I've just decided I cant face another year.
My co-teacher handed me a resignation letter that I 'have' to sign today. My point is I didnt resign, I just told them I changed my mind. My question is whose side is the law on with regards to return airfare and severance etc?
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Resignation info needed.... |
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| falco wrote: |
Just decided not to recontract with my public school with only about three weeks remaining in my contract. I had previously told them I intended to recontract but because of an increasingly impossible situation with my co-teacher recently, I've just decided I cant face another year.
My co-teacher handed me a resignation letter that I 'have' to sign today. My point is I didnt resign, I just told them I changed my mind. My question is whose side is the law on with regards to return airfare and severance etc?
- falco. |
Have you signed a new contract yet?
If not, just complete and walk away. Tell you co-teacher to politely stuff it. |
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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No mate. Havnt signed anything else. What consequences would signing a new contract have, if any?
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| falco wrote: |
No mate. Havnt signed anything else. What consequences would signing a new contract have, if any?
- falco. |
If you had signed a new contract they may have applied for a visa extension which means you'd need a LOR.
Don't sign anything that has resignation on it. Although your school may ask you to sign a document that states your intention to re-sign or not re-sign.
If your co teacher is being rude, tell her to wait. Go and talk to your EPIK/GEPIK/SMOE coordinator. |
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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I take it you mean if I had resigned with the school I'm at now I would have had to have got a LOR? Yes, I knew that.
My co-teacher and I had a god-awful argument this morning. Was the result of months of simmering tension. Shortly after he told me I 'had' to sign this damned resignation letter.
Actually I dont even know who my GEPIK co-ordinator is? I'm in Kyounngi so maybe is Wenise Kim?
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Why don't you just re-sign w/ GPEK and ask for a new school? Don't sign a letter of resignation simply because you're not resigning. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Do not, not, not sign that letter. Just tell them that you don't need to because you're contract will terminate itself.
If they really need something, type up your own 'letter of intent' in which you merely state that you do not desire to renew your contract. |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Sign your signature on a roll of toilet paper and tell her to stuff the hole under her nose. |
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| garykasparov wrote: |
| Sign your signature on a roll of toilet paper and tell her to stuff the hole under her nose. |
Now theres a thought......lol.
Thanks for your thoughtful and useful replies. I just threw the resignation letter in the rubbish bin...best place for it I think! (Heres a thought....wonder what would happen if I signed the resignation letter but dated it for the day my contract ends in 3 weeks??).
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Don't sign it.
As others have said you are not resigning, simply working out your contract till the end and not re-signing.
If you were to sign a letter of resignation then, if you were going home, the school wouldn't have to pay your return airfare.
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| falco wrote: |
| garykasparov wrote: |
| Sign your signature on a roll of toilet paper and tell her to stuff the hole under her nose. |
Now theres a thought......lol.
Thanks for your thoughtful and useful replies. I just threw the resignation letter in the rubbish bin...best place for it I think! (Heres a thought....wonder what would happen if I signed the resignation letter but dated it for the day my contract ends in 3 weeks??).
- falco. |
Umm, probably nothing. 
ilovebdt |
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Don't sign it.
As others have said you are not resigning, simply working out your contract till the end and not re-signing.
If you were to sign a letter of resignation then, if you were going home, the school wouldn't have to pay your return airfare.
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....and my severance as well right?
My co-teacher is going to America some time next year. Maybe after he's been there for a while he'll realise what its like to be the odd man out in a system where your in a minority of one and theres no support and no-one to fight your battles for you except yourself.
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| falco wrote: |
| ilovebdt wrote: |
Don't sign it.
As others have said you are not resigning, simply working out your contract till the end and not re-signing.
If you were to sign a letter of resignation then, if you were going home, the school wouldn't have to pay your return airfare.
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....and my severance as well right?
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I think so. You have to have worked a full year at a school to receive severance.
Hang in there Falco, the torture will soon be over 
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falco
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you my friend.
My contract finishes on the 12th of next month. Is gonna be a long three weeks I think.
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